Lens Blog: Alexia Webster's Photos of a South African Village Still Grappling With Apartheid
Source: The New York Times
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-07 08:01:10 -0700 | political-news
Recent Posts May 07 In Hogsback, South Africa, a mountaintop village surrounded by mist and a primeval forest, the legacy of apartheid still permeates relations between white and black residents...May 06 With a new exhibition space and improved Web site,...
'Female Genital Mutilation is not cultural, it's violence': 66,000 women in the UK live with the ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-07 07:13:47 -0700 | political-news
But East Africa isn't the only place where the practice is widespread. Women in Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Yemen and others are also highly likely to suffer FGM. Although it is illegal to take a girl abroad for FGM under British...
Somali struggle for unity continues
Source: BBC
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-06 16:25:27 -0700 | political-news
After the dust and frenzy of the capital, Afgoye is almost shockingly green, surrounded by lush, well-irrigated fields...Start Quote Al-Shabab is acting as a wild card: they don't want life, they respect nothing End Quote Abdi Farah Shirdon Somali Prime...
Nato forces antidote on piracy in Horn of Africa
Source: Daily Nation
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-06 13:30:13 -0700 | political-news
Rating In Summary Off the eastern coast of Somalia, a suspected pirate skiff with six people on board approached the vessel but its crew with an armed security team repulsed them in an exchange of fire as they sent a...
Somalia's fight to harness the power of Mogadishu port
Source: BBC
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-06 02:16:39 -0700 | political-news
At the thriving seaport in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, the aroma of lemons drowns out the smell of ship's fuel. The dried fruits, packed into hundreds of sacks, are being offloaded from trucks and hoisted by crane on to a cargo...
Bistros, beaches and book launches: Mogadishu revives forgotten culture
Source: Daily Nation
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-05 11:35:09 -0700 | political-news
Rating In Summary Mogadishu Then and Now aims to restore the lost glory of the capital city in the Somali people's collective memory. A few months after my first visit to Mogadishu in 2011, I met the Somali writer, Nuruddin...
Somalia: EU Naval Force Ship Fs Nivose Conducts Training With the Djiboutian Coastguard
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-05 01:38:57 -0700 | political-news
After being given an overview of maritime security training, from boarding a suspect vessel to the securing of a visiting ship, several training scenarios enabled the Djiboutian Coastguard to practice routines such as the stop and search of a suspect...
Somalia: Authorities Reject Press Freedom Day Rally
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-05 02:52:52 -0700 | political-news
Hargeisa An event to celebrate Press Freedom Day was spoiled when Somaliland authorities tore up billboards and slogans and refused to allow a demonstration on Saturday according to Hassan Mohamed Yusuf Director of Somaliland Journalists Organization, Garowe Online reports.
Somalia: Citing Currency Crisis, Puntland to Pay Govt Salaries in U.S. Dollars
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-04 03:59:25 -0700 | political-news
Garowe Puntland government in northern Somalia has announced that it will pay government salaries and expenses in U.S. dollar, due to the currency crisis that hit Somalia in early 2012. Puntland Finance Minister Farah Ali Jama addresses reporters at his...
U.N. creates Somali assistance mission
Source: United Press International
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-03 11:36:04 -0700 | political-news
A U.N. mission for Somalia would help the fledgling government build on political gains made since last year, the U.N...The Security Council backed a resolution that creates the U.N...Somalia last year established a functioning central government for the first time...
Somalia: Consensus, Representation and Parliament in Somaliland
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-03 07:48:21 -0700 | political-news
They are not mere formalities, conferring a thin veneer of legitimacy on a permanent incumbent; nor are they conducted solely as a sop to foreign donors insisting on greater democracy; nor is the prime motivation to further the pursuit of...
Refugee money transfer operation shut down
Source: Wellington Dominion
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-02 22:23:16 -0700 | political-news
Somali refugees fear their families will starve after a money transferring operation was shut down under new anti-money laundering and terrorism laws. BNZ has closed an account under the name of Adam Deer, a Somali refugee who came to New...
SOMALIA: Widowed Mother of Five Shot By Militants
Source: Canadian Free Press
Beledweyne :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-02 15:36:27 -0700 | political-news
Fartun's husband Siad, who was also a believer, had been previously killed by gunmen on December 8th, 2012, for converting from Islam. According to reports, the militants were searching for Fartun for several months because they were opposed to her...
Somali medics treating...
Source: Arab News
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-02 14:33:21 -0700 | political-news
26 am Not yet named but much loved by watchful parents, a newly born baby boy is a small symbol of change: A birth, not a death for Somalia's key war hospital. After more than two decades of bloody civil...
Quarter of Somalis still rely on aid despite weakening of Shabaab
Source: Reuters
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-02 14:35:41 -0700 | political-news
Topics A girl stands in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) on the outskirts of Belet Weyne, about 315 km (196 miles) from the capital Mogadishu, February 20, 2013, in this picture provided by the African Union-United Nations Information...
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