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Ethiopian swimmer struggles to finish 100m freestyle swimming heat

Ethiopian Olympic swimmer Robel Kiros Habte finished last in the Preliminary Men’s 100m Freestyle heats at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. The 24 year old was the only one of the 59 entrants in the heats not to complete the distance in under a minute. He...

Putting Faith and Sports on the Same Team

Fatimah Hussein was born in Somalia and immigrated to Minneapolis when she was 6 with her family, fleeing civil war. Ms. Hussein and her sister played softball when they were young, but in middle school they stopped, as did many of their Muslim peers. “It...

Bodies of 21 women, one man found on migrant boat in Mediterranean: MSF

Horndiplomat-ROME (Reuters) - The bodies of 21 women and one man were found on a migrant boat in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.MSF said more than 200 survivors had been rescued from the rubber dinghy and transferred to one...

South Sudan leader calls for national dialogue to end 3-year civil war

South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has called for a national dialogue to end the country’s three-year civil war. Kiir’s call comes at the start of the traditional fighting season and on the eve of the civil war’s third anniversary. In a speech to parliament on Wednesday,...

U.S. bombers fly over South Korea in show of force after nuclear test

By James Pearson and Ju-min Park | SEOUL Two U.S. B-1 bombers flew over South Korea on Tuesday in a show of force and solidarity with its ally after North Korea's nuclear test last week, while a U.S. envoy called for a swift and strong...

Somalia sets presidential election for Feb. 8

MOGADISHU Somalia will hold its presidential election on February 8, its electoral commission said Wednesday, after months of delays in a tortuous process for the conflict-torn country. Candidates will have until January 29 to register, the commission said in a statement. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, a...

Ethiopia’s mass release of ‘detainees’ excites top US officials, call for more

Samantha Power, the United States (US) ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has described as ‘‘encouraging news,’‘ the recent release of political prisoners by Ethiopia. Ethiopian authorities earlier this week disclosed the release of some 9,800 people detained under the current state of emergency. Local...

Kenya:63-year-old who set up school goes to class for the first time

By KAZUNGU SAMUEL HornDiplomat-Mzee was pained when he was barred from committee of school he founded. A 63-year-old man who started a school in Ganze but was blocked from sitting on its management committee because he was illiterate has gone back to school. An emotional Mzee Kazungu...

Mogadishu Car Blast Kills 3

A car bomb exploded outside a tire shop in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, on Sunday evening, killing at least three people and injuring four others, witnesses and officials said. A VOA reporter says the driver, a suspected al-Shabab suicide attacker, is among the dead. A journalist with...

Somaliland Launches it’s First Maternal Booklet

Somaliland’s Maternal Booklet is launched
Press release by Taiwan Representative Office Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland coordinates with Somaliland’s Ministry of Health Development, Taiwan ICDF, and Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital launches the first maternal booklet in Somaliland...