NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 29, 2012 (AP) —The health of thousands of Somali refugees will be threatened if they are moved from the country’s urban areas into a camp near the Kenyan-Somali border, an international aid group has said. Dadaab refugee camp is overstretched well beyond its original capacity of 90,000 people and to add more...
October 1, 2024
Category: Somali News & Politics
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Somali children’s center is likely
CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER Star Tribune December 29, 2012 __________________ After the 400 Bar went dark a month ago, some light has finally been shed on the future of the Minneapolis West Bank live-music mainstay. The club’s historic two-story building has been sold and will likely be converted into a community center for Somali-American children, according to...
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More refugees to worsen state of Kenya camp
MSF: More refugees to worsen state of Kenya camp NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 29, 2012 (AP) —The health of thousands of Somali refugees will be threatened if they are moved from the country’s urban areas into a camp near the Kenyan-Somali border, an international aid group has said. Dadaab refugee camp is overstretched well beyond its original capacity of 90,000 people...
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Lawmakers in Somalia reject
PressTV Dec 28, 2012 __________ The Somali Parliament has rejected the country’s budget after a series of debates. The budget has already sparked intense debates among members of parliament and was postponed on several occasions. Parliament speaker Mohamed Osman Jawari announced that seventy members of parliament voted against while 54 voted in favor of the...
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The World’s Worst War
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN December 15, 2012 _____________ LAST month, as I was driving down a backbreaking road between Goma, a provincial capital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kibumba, a little market town about 20 miles away, I came upon the body of a Congolese soldier. He was on his back, half...
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In Somaliland, less money has brought more democracy
By Nick Eubank As the humanitarian crisis in southern Somalia threatens millions of lives, Somalia’s little-known northern neighbour, Somaliland, is doing so well that its government recently offered to send aid across the border. That a small and relatively poor country that is also suffering from the ongoing drought would be in a position to...
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Somali Media: Ethics, Truth and Integrity
By Abdelkarim A Hassan “I haven`t voted since 1964, I don`t want to get my judgment involved in what I do for a living” Jim Lehrer, PBS, News Hour. Background In recent years Somali journalism, Islam and Somali music have become the easiest areas to penetrate without any previous experience or training. In other words,...
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Fallout from war on terror hits Ethiopia
By Paul Salopek; Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent JIJIGA, Ethiopia – The gray-faced young man lying in bed number 15 of the run-down local hospital wasn’t much of a talker. In truth, few people are these days in Jijiga, a desert town whose tense streets are patrolled by swarms of Ethiopian police. But Nur Omar Ali,...