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Waraysi oo Muhim ah : General Maxamed Cali Ibrahim “Atosh”

Codka Shacabka Koonfur Galbeed oo waraysi dheer oo muhim ah la yeeshay General Maxamed Atosh. Waraysiga oo taabanayo dhowr meelood oo kala duwan. Dhagaysi wacan !!![iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0QjfzwLB8gU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen ]

MAXAY GALABSADEEN OO LAGA GOYNAYAA?

Waxaa induhu daawanayaan ruuxuna dul joogaa, Ma dadkaa dareenkiyo ka dhaamatay damqashadii?Ma dalkey neceenoo, danna aan u biday dareen igu soo duxayoo aan rabo inaan dad weynaha laqeybsado. (more…)

Saudi Arabia’s new expat fees: What will it cost?

JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia plans to introduce an “expat levy” from 2017, it was confirmed during Thursday’s budget announcement, with charges of up to SR800 per worker to be phased in by 2020.Companies currently pay a levy of SR200 per month per expat employee, but only for expat employees that exceed...

World’s last wild frankincense forests in Somalia are under threat

Harvesting frankincense is risky. The trees can grow high on cliff edges, shallow roots gripping bare rock slithering with venomous snakes. In a tradition dating to Biblical times, men rise at dawn in the rugged Cal Madow mountains of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa to scale rocky outcrops in...

Slain Ottawa sisters mourned, brother charged in killings

Beyond drifts of snow at the gates of Ottawa Muslim Cemetery on Sunday, grief-stricken mourners said farewell to slain sisters Asma and Nasiba A-Noor, who in life touched many by their devotion to family, community and the Qur’an.Only 32 and 29, the sisters were remembered at their funeral as “inspiring...

Leading Experts At BIMCO Seminar Say Maritime Crime Increasing

Industry security experts have concluded that maritime crime will not be stopped any time soon – and that cyber incidents would continue to expand in frequency and severity. This was the consensus at BIMCO’s first ever Maritime Security Seminar in Copenhagen yesterday. (more…)

EU contributes €1 million EUR to IMF Somalia Trust Fund

EU contribution to IMF Somalia Trust Fund.Nairobi, 9 December 2017 – The EU has contributed €1 million EUR to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Somalia Trust Fund as part of its long-standing commitment to support economic governance and capacity development in Somalia. The EU support will contribute to normalizing relations...

Assessing Castro’s mixed, bloody record in Africa

Say what you want about Fidel Castro, in Africa he was a liberator. His aid to the South African anti-apartheid struggle will forever be remembered as a grand stroke of moral leadership, in great contrast to American policy.That’s the theme of various sympathetic postmortems for the Cuban dictator, who died...

Somali civilians clash with al-Shabab over tax dispute

At least 10 killed after residents take up arms against fighters for trying to impose tax in central Galmudug region.At least 10 people were killed and dozens of others wounded in fighting that erupted over a tax dispute between al-Shabab and armed residents in Somalia's central state of Galmudug. (more…)

Somalia: Elders negotiate with al-Shabab over soldiers

Gal'ad, Somalia - "Line up in a straight line. We will do the talking on your behalf," an elderly man with a henna-dyed beard tells the group of young men. They are standing in front of an iron-gated compound in the centre of the town of Gal'ad in Somalia's central...