Saudi Women File First-ever Petition To End Male Guardianship of Women
We are all aware of the Saudi Arabia’s strict laws. It has some of the world’s tightest restrictions on women, and is the only country where they are not allowed to drive. There is also a law where women cannot independently travel, marry, rent...
Kenya :70% Kenyans in fear of post-election violence in 2017 – survey
Most Kenyans are afraid that violence will be experienced in the 2017 general election, a survey has found.
The survey on citizens views on security and safetyin Kenya found 70 per cent were "afraid", 44 per cent "very afraid" and three out of ten citizens...
Somalia remains the global capital of unsolved murders of journalists
By Yomi Kazeem
With militant group al-Shabaab waging war and the government suppressing press freedom, being a journalist in Somalia is a difficult, and even life-threatening, job.
The Committee to Project Journalists’ 2016 Global Impunity Index “spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go...
K’Naan wraps HBO series pilot set in Somali community
By JEFF BAENEN
Rapper K'Naan has faced backlash over the pilot of his HBO Show Mogadishu, Minnesota.
MINNEAPOLIS—For Somali-Canadian rapper K’naan, the story he is trying to tell in his proposed HBO series Mogadishu, Minnesota is one he has lived: an immigrant coming to America and...
Ethiopia’s parliament has unanimously approved 21 new appointees after Pm Commit A Large Reshuffle
By Aaron Maasho | ADDIS ABABA
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn swore in a group of technocrats and new finance and foreign ministers on Tuesday in a reshuffle meant to respond to grievances behind six months of violent protests.
The reshuffle swapped out half of his...
Manning resident Abdullahi Alim running for 2017 WA Australian of the Year Award
ABDULLAHI Alim wants to unlock the potential of disadvantaged people.
The Manning resident, who has born in Somalia, has been named as a finalist in the 2017 WA Australian of the Year Awards in the young person category alongside Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo, singer...
Russia security official: U.S.-Russia ties will improve – RIA
A further worsening of relations between Moscow and the United States is in the interests of neither side, Nikolai Patrushev, the Secretary of Russia's Security Council, was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
"As recent history shows, relations between Russia and the USA will sooner or...
THREE PIONEER SOMALI WOMEN TRAIN AS SOLAR-POWER ENGINEERS
Three rural Somali women are being trained as solar-power engineers in India and are hoping to bring new technology to their villages in remote parts of Puntland.
The women from Taleh, Badhan and Alula districts were selected by Puntland’s ministry of women’s development and family...
Exhibition of Somali culture launches in Bristol
A year long exhibition of Somali culture has launched at the MShed, as part of the Bristol Festival of Somali Culture.
Somalis in Bristol: Where Are We From and Who Are We Now? seeks to introduce new audiences to the richness of Somali culture, break...
Somaliland:international community be Disappointed if Somaliland Misses Election Date” british deputy ambassador
Horndiplomat-A senior British diplomat said on Sunday that the world would be surprised and disappointed if Somalia held its elections on time this year and Somaliland failed to meet its own timetable of March 2017 for Presidential polls.
Andrew Allen, the Deputy Ambassador to Somalia,...
