SOMALIA: Radio station and TV satellite destroyed; one dead.

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New York, December 21, 2009—Mortar shells destroyed the Radio Voice of Democracy building this morning in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing Amal Abukar, 22,...

South Africa Celebrates 20 Years of Democracy

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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.. How Somalia's legendary 'Mad Mullah' prefigured the rise of Osama bin Laden—and the 'forever war' between Islam and the West.

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Friday, October 02,2009 (SomalilandPress)-At Dul Madoba, which means Black Hill in Somali, a jihadist known to his enemies as the Mad Mullah enjoyed a...

AT&T donates $250,000 to defend press freedom

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New York, October 25, 2018—The Committee to Protect Journalists is pleased to announce that AT&T is donating $250,000 to support the organization’s defense of...

Somalia: Militant Islamists Try to Draw Kenya Into a Trap

Al-Shabaab’s first attack on Kenyan soil was in 2008. Since then the Kenyan government has responded with force. United Nations Photo/Flickr
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Hargeisa, 27 June 2009 (Somalilandcurrent) - As Somalia's transitional government fights for its existence and the region's governments debate how to respond, guest columnist...

NIGERIA: 150 Muslim residents massacred

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A US-based rights group has urged Nigeria's vice-president to order an immediate criminal investigation into "a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents" of a...

China leader Xi Jinping slammed for his ‘wolf warrior’ tactics

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Key generals have attacked Xi Jinping for squandering China’s big chance. They say his tactics have ruined their chances of world domination. Jamie Seidel@JamieSeidel One man....

Angela Merkel Will Not Seek Another Term as German Chancellor

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The incumbent leader announced she’d not seek re-election once her mandate finishes in 2021, as neither Chancellor nor party leader. It follows her Christian Democratic Union...

Nigerian journalist Kofi Bartels says police beat him, threatened him with sexual assault

Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad officers are seen in Kano, Nigeria, on February 23, 2019. Journalist Kofi Bartels told CPJ he was recently assaulted and threatened by anti-robbery officers. (AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei) New York, June 6, 2019 -- Nigerian autho
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On June 5, a group of at least five police officers punched and kicked Bartels, a reporter with the privately owned Nigeria Info radio...

Gender parity possible-says Dr. Speciosa

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Kampala, Uganda, 31/3/2015: Former Uganda Vice President Dr. Speciosa Wandira-Kazibwe has assured Ugandan women that the time is NOW to reignite processes for ensuring...