Topic: Somalia
The history of this great African Country, once called Abyssinia, is multi-millenary and it's impossible to fix an only approximate start of it. The Christianism begun to to be known and followed in the first half of the IV century, after the ...
Frankincense is a fragrant gum resin from trees of a genus, Boswellia (family Burseraceae), found in Somalia, Yemen, southern coastal Arabia, and North Africa.
Somalia - whether you're drawn by the sandy white beaches, impressive charcoal industry, or even just a steaming plate of Cambuulo you can't deny the draw of this magical land. and don't wear a bra. Somalia, it turns out, happens to be ...
A Christian in Ethiopia's southern town of Moyale has been languishing in jail for two months after his Muslim business partner accused him of writing "Jesus is Lord" in a copy of the Quran, local church leaders said. Jijiga, capital of Ethiopia's ...
A couple of years ago, a Bosnian woman now living in the Netherlands told me, "the situation here feels just the way it felt in Bosnia before the war began. In one particularly egregious example, supervisors at the JBS Swift meat processing ...
Thousands gathered in a Mogadishu stadium Wednesday for a demonstration organised by the Al Qaeda-inspired group Shebab to protest a now abandoned plan by a US church to burn copies of the Koran.Florida pastor Terry Jones cancelled his plans at the weekend ...
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Five Muslim men went on trial before an Australian court on Monday, charged with planning an attack on a Sydney army base last year in retaliation for Australia's involvement in the Afghan war, a prosecutor said.The men, all Australian ...
As Muslims worldwide marked the Eid al-Fitr feast, the few faithful who ventured out of their homes in Mogadishu on Friday exchanged nervous glances in the city's deserted battle-scarred streets.The usual outpouring of faith and celebrations marking one of the most important ...
Somalia's religious scholars who today participated in a special programme held by State-run Radio Mogadishu on collecting Zakat alms in the final days of the holy month of Ramadan have spoken on how the zakat can be collected and distributed. During the ...
Somali Islamist militants disguised as government soldiers went on a shooting rampage in a Mogadishu hotel Tuesday, killing 30 people including six MPs before blowing themselves up.The brazen attack by two rebels from the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab movement a stone's throw from the ...
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Fault Lines - Horn of Africa Crisis ...
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Somalia's global diaspora
We speak with the Somali Diaspora about their experiences in ...2012-01-24 -
FAO declares end of famine in ...
The Food and Agricultural Organization declared Somalia famine free on ...2012-02-03
