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For more than a decade, a new kind of 'newspeak' - coded racism - has become prevalent in France By Thomas Guenole - The writer is political scientist and author of Islamo-psychose , Fayard Publishing, 2017. In the 2017 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen reached a...

By Tim Cocks and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin | DAKAR In an upmarket suburb of Senegal's seaside capital, a branch of Iran's Al-Mustafa University teaches Senegalese students Shi'ite Muslim theology, among other subjects. The branch director is Iranian and a portrait of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...

Anthony Sawina targeted group in Minnesota as they headed to prayers, wounding two, after threatening to 'kill all'. A jury has convicted a white man of attempted murder for shooting and wounding two Somali-American men who were on their way to Ramadan prayers in Minneapolis...

By: Andrew deGrandpre, The Trump administration would consider deploying additional U.S. troops to Somalia should the troubled African nation request greater military aid to combat al-Qaida loyalists there, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis indicated Thursday. "That's a decision we'll take if it's broached to us, and we'll...

LONDON, May 11, 2017- On the sidelines of the UK-hosted Conference on Somalia, the Somali government and high level business actors endorsed a Public-Private Cooperation Agreement to Accelerate Somalia’s Economic Recovery. The event was supported by the World Bank Group and the British Department...

Five Kenyans are among 72 people deported from the US over immigration issues. The rest are Somalis. Police and immigration officials said a private plane carrying the 72 individuals landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Friday morning after a long journey that started from...

By Estelle Shirbon | LONDON Somalia's government and its foreign backers on Thursday signed a security pact which they presented as a road map toward building a functional national army capable of taking on the fight against al Shabaab militants. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group...

Horndiplomat-The Foreign Minister met with the Deputy Consular of Russia Yury Kourchakov who is based in Djibouti. This was the first time a Russian diplomat set foot in Somaliland for over 38 years. This occasion was a meet and greet for the Consular to...

By Mary HarperAfrica editor, BBC World Service News This Thursday, the great and the good will descend on London to discuss Somalia, a country that has topped the Fragile States Indexfor eight of the past 10 years. The London Somalia Conference, co-chaired by the UK, Somalia...

Dubai-based DP World, a global trade enabler, has celebrated its 30-year port concession for the management and development of a multi-purpose port project at Berbera, Republic of Somaliland which started on March 2. President of the Republic of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud and DP World...