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15 Somalians Suffocate in a truck in Luapula Province (Imagery warning)
15 people suspected to be Somalian nationals have died in a containerised truck on the pedicle road in an apparent case of human trafficking gone wrong. The Truck registered AFB 496 from Kasama was...
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Somalia Moves to Shore Up Government Ahead of National Elections
The Somali parliament approved amendments to the constitution Wednesday that will allow the House to continue to function should the country’s leaders fail to meet the deadline set for the election of...
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Migrants, including children, found dead in Niger desert.
The bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, have been found in the Niger desert near the Algerian border. They were abandoned by their smugglers. In a statement read on national television on...
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Ethiopia: Protest Crackdown Killed Hundreds.
(Nairobi, June 16, 2016) – Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 protesters and others, and arrested tens of thousands more during widespread protests in the Oromia region since November...
View ArticleUN World Food Program investigating allegations on expired aid food in Somalia.
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said Wednesday it was investigating allegations that it had tried to send expired and damaged food to needy people in south-western Somalia. Senior police...
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‘78% of Kenyans would welcome refugees’
Seventy eight per cent of Kenyans would welcome refugees into the country, a survey has shown. The Refugees Welcome Index by Amnesty Intentional released yesterday, shows 62 per cent of Kenyans want...
View ArticleSomalia’s prime minister: ‘We don’t want Kenya to push [out] refugees’
The government of Kenya has come under intense criticism from the United Nations and human rights groups for announcing that it will shut down Dadaab refugee camp by November, which, with nearly...
View ArticleRugby player arrested over alleged link with Al Shabaab.
Nakuru RFC have expressed their shock and disappointment following the arrest of their centre player Javan Morton Murai on alleged links with terror group, Al Shabaab. The player who featured for...
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African children ‘missing out’
Africa has the highest rate of unregistered children in the world, the United Nations Children’s Funds, Unicef, has said. Millions of children in Africa could be missing out on their rights to health...
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Sent, sealed and to be delivered: Minn. nonprofit packs off a whole hospital...
A Minnesota nonprofit has shipped the entire contents of a hospital — from bandages to beds to dialysis machines — to a hospital in Mogadishu in a move to create “the best-equipped hospital in...
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UN appeals for funds to facilitate repatriation of Somalia refugees.
Donor agencies should provide additional funding to facilitate safe relocation of Somalia refugees living in Kenya’s Dadaab camp, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi has said. UNHCR’s...
View ArticleSuspected militants shot and killed two people in Mogadishu.
Mogadishu, (KNN)–At least two people including a local government official in Mogadishu were killed by suspected al-shabaab militants traveling in motorcycle witnesses said Wednesday at morning.. The...
View ArticleShooting suspect in Texas Walmart store shot dead.
A suspect has been shot and is apparently dead after police officers responded to a reported shooting inside a Walmart store in Amarillo, Texas. The Amarillo Police Department released a statement...
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Kenya to ask UN to take over Amisom
President Uhuru Kenyatta is in Belgium for meetings with European Union leaders. EU is Kenya’s second-largest development cooperation partner after the World Bank and the second-largest destination of...
View ArticleWFP denies Somali police allegations.
Mogadishu, (KNN)–WFP communication officer in Somalia Leyla Ali told Somali National News Agency on Wednesday that WFP is investigating the case. She strongly denies that WFP distributes expired food...
View ArticleMortar shells in Mogadishu.
Mogadishu, (KNN)–Police say it is too early to say about the causalities as Some of the mortars landed in areas of Wardhigley and Hawlwagaad districts near the presidential palace Villa-Somalia....
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Somali camel traders pay the price of war in Syria
With markets in the Middle East paralysed by war, Somali traders say their livelihoods are at risk of collapse Elasha Biyaha, Somalia – It is Wednesday morning in a tea shop made of sticks and...
View ArticlePresident sacks NISA Chief.
Mogadishu, (KNN), in a presidential degree Somali president fires National Intelligence and Security Agency Chief. Mr. Abdirahman Mohamed Turyare who was named in 2014 to lead Somali National...
View ArticleCargo plane carrying expired food seized at Mogadishu airport.
Mogadishu,(KNN)–A Plane carrying tons of expired food marked on WFP Logo seized at Mogadishu’s Aden Ade international airport Somali goverment officials said on Tuesday. The food stuffs were...
View ArticleSomali Prison warden Chief attends vital conference in Austria
The Commander in Chief of the Somali Prison warden Brigadier Bashir Mohamed Jama has on Monday returned into the country after two weeks of duty to attend conference in the Austrian capital Vienna....
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