Kenyan Police Seized Suspected Al Shabaab Financier in Mombasa
Mombasa, Kenya-Mombasa County Police Commander Robert Kitur said the police nabbed a 45-year-old Abdalla Salim Bindo for alleged association with funding and recruiting youth to join the militant group in Likoni and Kwale towns in the coastal region. Kitur said Bindo was picked for questioning from a restaurant near Kenya Ferry Services and driven to […]
16 Muslim Preachers Arrested in Kenya
Police in Kenya’s Marsabit County have arrested 16 Muslim preachers which they suspected of recruiting for the Somali armed group al Shabaab. According to Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper, the arrests took place in the Karare area after police were tipped off by locals in the area. The preachers who arrived in the area days ago […]
The Sad Life of A Refugee: From Somalia to Sweden
The way Amin Amey tells it, the romance began with a headache. He had gone to buy painkillers in the market of Ifo, one of the five camps that make up the complex of Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee settlement. The pharmacy was next door to a tailor, on a side street strung with sacking […]
Threat to Expel Somali Refugees Softened
NAIROBI — President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya on Wednesday softened a threat to expel hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees within three months, saying there would be no forced repatriations. Mr. Kenyatta made the assurance following meetings with the top refugee official from the United Nations. He also met with Secretary of State John Kerry […]
Faarrow, the Somali sisters laying down tracks for their debut album in Los Angeles
Laying down tracks for their debut album in the recording studio in Los Angeles, Iman Hashi, 25 and her sister Siham, 27 could not be further from their hometown of Mogadishu. The sisters were born in the Somali capital but were forced to flee after war broke out in 1991. Along with their parents, the […]
Kenyan army retaliates as fighter jets bomb al-Shabab bases in Somalia
Kenyan fighter jets have bombed positions of militant Islamist group al-Shabab in neighbouring Somalia, a military spokesman confirmed.The warplanes had targeted two camps in the Gedo region, used by al-Shabab to cross into Kenya, the spokesman added.This is Kenya’s first response to the al-Shabab assault which left 148 people dead at Garissa University last week.President […]
Barack Obama nominates America’s first ambassador to Somalia since 1991
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated America’s first ambassador to Somalia since 1991, when ties soured as rival warlords took over the African nation. Katherine Dhanani, a long-time diplomat with deep experience of African affairs, will have to be confirmed by the Senate for the role in Somalia, where extremists have targeted government officials […]
Somali families panicking due to U.S. banks
Somali families are panicking and businesses are running short of funds two weeks after the last major U.S. bank stopped transferring money to the fragile Horn of Africa country, development groups said. Somalia has no formal banking system due to decades of war, so Somalis living abroad use money transfer companies to send some $1.3 […]
Somali-American money transfer companies closed over fear of funding terrorist activities
Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have depended on money sent by relatives and friends living abroad as their only source of income ever since Somalia’s government collapsed in 1991.But on Friday, Merchants Bank of California the last bank willing to do business with Somali-American transfer companies is expected to terminate those companies’ accounts, endangering financial […]
A former top commander of Somalia’s al-Shabab terror group denounces violence
A former top commander of Somalia’s al-Shabab terror group says he has quit the insurgency, renouncing the violence perpetuated by his former comrades.Zakariya Ismail Hersi served as intelligence chief of the al-Qaida-linked organization before surrendering to Somali authorities last December. “From now on I will convey my principles and beliefs through peaceful means and understanding,” […]
