Radical Islamic organization Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda's branch in Somalia, is producing a series of documentary videos about jihadist warriors who came from the U.S. to fight against “infidel forces.”
One of the videos brings the story of two young...
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The closure of UK bank accounts belonging to cash-transfer firms would force many people to find new ways of sending money home. What are the alternatives?
Barclays has decided to close the accounts of about 250 money-transfer...
Studying in Istanbul on a full government scholarship, Somali student Nur Hassan Bukhari is worried that attacks targeting Turkish interests could derail relations between the two countries.
"It was brutal," Bukhari told Al Jazeera of a bombing on the Turkish mission in...
The international community at large have eye witnessed the misery of Somalia ever since from the collapse of Siyad Barre regime in 1991. The departure of the regime is followed by a power vacuum, which generated a supremacy struggle...
Had the latest attack that targeted the Turkish embassy in the Somali capital of Mogadishu achieved its desired damage, losses would have been far higher than they were. The vigilance of the guards, who killed some of the attackers...
book review: Most of Fergusson’s book explores the reaction of Somalia to outside intervention, which he concludes doesn’t curb famine or violence.
When James Fergusson, a journalist based in Edinburgh, Scotland, decided to write a book about a chaotic African...
Overzealous Western banks threaten to choke off Somalia's struggling recovery by targeting the Hawala transfer system.
Columbus, Ohio - Every month I visit a small grocery store in a non-descript building in Columbus, Ohio, where I live, to use...
The UNICEF Somalia Representative Sikander Khan said in a statement on Tuesday that it has received $1.3 million to scale up fight against polio outbreak in Somalia.
The UN agency said the fund will help UNICEF and its partners conduct...
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MOGADISHU (AFP) – Somalia's government signed an oil and gas exploration deal on Tuesday with a British company chaired by a former leader of Britain's Conservative party, ministry and company officials said.
Soma Oil and Gas, chaired by Michael Howard,...