New To The Parish: Nasir Yasin arrived from Somalia in 2005
Nasir Yasin spent seven years living in direct provision before he was granted permission to remain in Ireland on humanitarian grounds. He arrived in the country alone, aged 18...
Last night on The Stream on Al Jazeera, author Ben Rawlence:
• Dismissed the terrorism threat posed by Dadaab
• Claimed “Refugees are being used as a bargaining chip here”
• Claimed Kenya wants a better deal for hosting refugees, like Turkey’s
On...
Nairobi- Somali pirates are still holding 11 foreign vessels for ransom with 167 crew members as hostages as of Sep 30 even as the number of ships signaling attacks by Somali pirates has fallen to its lowest since 2009, a global...
The parents of the late Yuusuf Abdisalaan Ali was 24 years old Somaliland national who passed away last week in the cruel hands of human traffickers in Tripoli, Libya are calling for a decent burial of their deceased son.
The...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bombing targeting a Mogadishu hotel by the Islamist group Al Shabaab on Thursday killed at least 10 people and destroyed buildings in the Somali capital’s busiest street, police said.
It was one of the...
Mogadishu, 22 December 2018 – The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has strongly condemned the simultaneous bomb attacks, which occurred last night and today morning in Mogadishu.
The three attacks by Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIED) targeted civilians and...
MOGADISHU– Leaders of Somalia and the breakaway Somaliland have been urged to resume the talks to resolve their differences five years after attempts to iron out the dispute collapsed.
The ambassadors from Netherlands and Denmark to Somalia have called for...
Failing to help imperils world peace and security as extremist groups will use the suffering of the people to their advantage by attracting unemployed youth to their ranks
By Bashir Goth
We often hear the platitude “water is precious” while we...
State Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Prof. Afework Kassu attended Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development (TICAD) Ministerial level held on 6 October 2018 in Tokyo with theme “ensure Africa’s Economic Transformation.” In...
Since the collapse of the Somali central government for nearly three decades ago, the aftermath history would simply hopscotch us through a gloomy era that wouldn’t please the Somali people in common but those in the South in particular....