A scruffy looking man — hoodie up, clutching a tattered sign scrawled on a scrap of cardboard — shuffled up to a car at a busy intersection in this city west of Toronto. Drivers instinctively looked away. But this sign’s wording was different from the usual begging appeal: “My name is Constable Mike Cairns. If [...]
A 40-year-old Buffalo man is behind bars, accused of beating his stepson to death. The body of 10-year-old Abdifatah Mohamud was discovered in the basement of a Guilford Street home Tuesday night around 10:45 p.m. by police. Buffalo Police responded to the home after receiving a 911 call of a missing 10-year-old boy. “They found [...]
Kuwaiti lawmakers voted in favor of a legal amendment on Thursday which could make insulting God and the Prophet Mohammad punishable by death, after a case of suspected blasphemy on Twitter caused an uproar in the Gulf Arab state. Members of Parliament must vote on the proposal again in a second session and it would [...]
SLV – The French shooting suspect who had been besieged by police in his apartment in Toulouse for more than 24 hours is dead, according to a police source. The same source said three police were wounded, one seriously, in the siege. Earlier, French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said Thursday it was not clear if [...]
Who?: Somaliland is a breakaway territory of Somalia. It is a democratic republic that fulfills nearly all the requirements of an independent nation. Here are some of Somaliland’s demographics: Population: 3.5 million Size: 68,000 square miles, roughly the same size as England and Wales Languages: Somali, Arabic, English Religion: Islam – Sunni Life expectancy: Men, [...]
HARGEISA, Somaliland — If a country isn’t recognized, does it make a sound? Here in Somaliland, the semi-autonomous northern part of the failed state of Somalia, I discovered that the answer is an emphatic yes. The government in Mogadishu has virtually no influence in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, or over the territory’s 3.5 million [...]
SLV – The breakaway enclave of Somaliland, which boasts oil and gas potential, has set up a UK-linked corporation to act as an entry point for investors concerned the Somali territory’s lack of international recognition would stop contracts being enforced. On a visit to London to attend a conference on Somalia, President Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo [...]
SLV – President Barack Obama delivered his most explicit threat yet that the United States will attack Iran if that’s what it takes to prevent it from developing a nuclear bomb. At the same time, he warned Israelis they would only make a bad situation worse if they moved pre-emptively against Iranian nuclear facilities. The [...]
SLV – The self-declared independent state in the north-west corner of conflict-ridden Somalia has been an oasis of calm, and it is now seeking foreign investment Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa. Photograph: Andrew McConnell/Alamy Amid the war-ravaged landscape of Somalia, the self-declared independent state of Somaliland has carved out a reputation for relative calm. Last [...]
Speaking after the Africa Minister Henry Bellingham, dismissed the issue at the London Somalia Conference this afternoon at the Chatham House. Bloom said, “For 15 years the people of Somaliland have shown that a stable multi-party democracy can exist in the Horn of Africa. We owe them the decency of recognition for their toil. “The [...]
