Category: NEWS in ENGLISH

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The expensive luxury of electricity in Somalia

Mogadishu residents left in the dark amid price hikes from private electricity companies that many cannot afford….

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‘Ireland is home, but I have to change Somalia’

Muqdisho, April 3, 2016: When she first arrived in Ireland as a 17-year-old refugee, Ifrah Ahmed was frightened…

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Nairobi reality distorted in fiction film about drone attack on Shabaab

A street in Nairobi’s Eastleigh section. A fiction film supposedly set in the neighbourhood opened in wide…

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Suicide bomber strikes while hugging official in Somalia’s Puntland

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – An Islamist militant suicide bomber put his arms around a local official as if…

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Somalia: USD 105 million urgently needed to save lives in drought-affected areas

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 31, 2016/APO (African Press Organization) Aid agencies in Somalia today launched a Call for…

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I opened the first psychiatric hospital in Somalia

BBC World Service – In 2005, Outlook Inspirations nominee Abdirahman Ali Awale opened Somalia’s first psychiatric hospital….

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Somalia’s Sufi revival

After years of war and devastation, Somalia’s Sufi community regroups to begin recovery process. Hamza Mohamed |…

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Can drone strikes defeat al-Shabab?

Abukar Arman, Somalia’s former special envoy to the US, debates Ahmed Abdisalam Adan, the country’s former deputy…

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Somalia’s forgotten soldiers

There is a growing sense of neglect among Somali soldiers as they are left to deal with…

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With all these shenanigans, is there any hope for Somalia?

 Muqdisho,28 March 2016: In Summary It is believed that Italian journalist Iliara Alpi’s discovery of a “guns-for-waste” trade…

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Diaspora Celebrate Alongside UK Ministers To Show New Narrative For Somalis

Mo Farah amongst those recognised at International Somali Awards  Muqdisho,25 March 2016: Prime Minister David Cameron cited the…

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SOMALI OSCAR NOMINEE KNOWS ALL ABOUT TORONTO’S DIXON ROAD COMMUNITY

Barkhad Abdi is building on the momentum from his Oscar-nominated performance in Captain Phillips as an empathetic pirate. But the…