Topic: Somalia
Two Britons who were briefly detained in Kenya near the border with Somalia have been questioned and released by anti-terror police after their return home, Scotland Yard said Friday.Mohamed Mohamed Abdallah, of Somali descent, and Iqbal Shahzad, of Pakistani descent, both 18, ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia executed two government soldiers Monday accused of killing a civilian and a soldier, as the Western-backed government came under international pressure to hold its forces to account for abuses.Somalia's government, which recently took control over the vast majority ...
Members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, at an emergency meeting in Istanbul Wednesday, vowed to donate 350 million dollars for famine relief in Somalia."We said we aimed (to collect) 500 million. We are committed 350 million today," Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Turkish ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - ISTANBUL, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries have pledged $350 million in aid to fight famine in Somalia at an emergency summit in Istanbul, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said Wednesday.With some 3.7 million ...
US President Barack Obama extended his best wishes Monday to Muslims beginning the holy fasting month of Ramadan, using the occasion to urge people to help victims of drought and famine in Africa.His Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also extended good wishes ...
US President Barack Obama extended his best wishes Monday to Muslims beginning the holy fasting month of Ramadan, using the occasion to urge people to help victims of drought and famine in Africa.Ramadan is "a time of deep reflection and sacrifice. As ...
The first Muslim member of Congress wept Thursday as he addressed a controversial US hearing on homegrown Islamic terrorism, amid tense accusations that the probe smacks of bigotry and McCarthyism.The Republican who called the proceedings, Representative Peter King, promised a thorough investigation ...
Somalia's Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab militia publicly executed a man by a firing squad after accusing him of spying for the United States, the insurgents said Monday.Ahmed Ali Hussein, 44, was gunned down late Sunday at one of the rebels' camps in the ...
A Somali man charged with trying to kill a Dane who caricatured the Prophet Mohammed pleaded not guilty to attempted murder on the first day of his trial Wednesday, insisting he had only aimed to scare the cartoonist."I was irritated and frustrated ...
A Somali man charged with trying to kill the cartoonist behind the most controversial of the Danish caricatures of Prophet Mohammed goes on trial Wednesday in the central town of Aarhus.The 29-year-old man, who has only been identified as Abdi in Danish ...
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