Somali and world news

A Somali journalist working for the government broadcaster was shot dead outside his home in the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, the fourth reporter to be murdered in the country this year, the union of journalists said. Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh, who worked for Somali National Television and Radio Mogadishu, was killed by unknown assailants as he returned home after work, according to Abdirahim Isse Addow, director of Radio Mogadishu, who was quoted by the National Union of Somali Journalists. Three other journalists had been killed in Somalia so far this year, the union said. Rageh's murder came a week after at least 30 people were killed by a car bomb, suicide bombers and gunmen at Mogadishu's law courts and a car bomb explosion near the airport. The attacks were blamed on Islamist militants al Shabaab, who afterwards warned of more to come. Western and Somali officials are concerned al Shabaab, which was driven out of Mogadishu two years ago but still cont

A Kenyan separatist movement denied on Friday accusations by the authorities that it was behind a raid in a coastal resort that killed eight people, although it said former members may have been involved. Armed police officers shot dead six attackers and two policemen were killed in Thursday's early morning raid on a casino popular with tourists in Malindi. Officials blamed the banned Mombasa Republican Council (MRC). A series of attacks blamed on the movement have damaged prospects for growth and investment along Kenya's coast, a major tourist draw, and in Mombasa, an economically vital port city. "Police should stop using the MRC as a scapegoat for failing to protect Kenyans," senior MRC member Omar Bebo told Reuters. He said that criminal gangs "have taken advantage of our sour relationship with government to cause trouble". "Some of these gangs are formed by splinter groups of youths who decamped from the MRC because we rejected their ca

The aim of this article is not to cause further problems for the southern Somalis consisting of all Somali clans who have all suffered during the last 23 years. The aim to try to help prevent further complications and sufferings of the southern Somali clans that may result from establishing southern Somalia federal sates based on an unfairness and in a way that may exclude certain clans. Up to year 1780 the peoples of Horn of Africa were, among others, those of Abyssinian, Adel, Ajan and Zansibar. By 1859 the peoples have curved up the land among themselves with the Somali and Zanzibar occupying the lion’s share. By 1896, after the European scramble for Africa and their Berlin conference of 1884 the region was subdivided into British, French and Italian colonies. Looking at most of the historical maps one clearly sees that the inhabitants of the area north of river juba were the Rahanwein (DigilMirifle) as they are still today. River Juba is still the Rahanwein’s natural southern

Haweeney Soomaali ah oo Lesbian ah ama ah dumarka jecel dumarka kale inay u galmoodaan ayaa waxaa la sheegay inay si arxan daro ah ay u dishay hooyada dhashay haweeney ay is qabeen oo xaaskeeda ahayd oo ayna wada noolaayeen. Haweeneydaan Soomaalida ah oo lagu magacaabo Sagal Maxamud Saadiq oo 40 sano jir ah kuna nool magaalada San Jose, California ee dalkaas Mareykanka ayaa waxaa la sheegay inay is qabeen oo ayna is guursadeen haweeney kale oo lagu magacaabo Minema Kirk oo 37 sano jir iyagoona is qabay mudo gaareysa ilaa iyo 3 sanadood, Laakiin labadaas haween oo uu soo kala dhex galay muran ayaa waxay haweeneydaas ay go’aansatey inay soo af jarto xiriirkaas guurka arintaas oo ay ka xumaatay haweeneydaas Soomaalida ah ka dibna ay si caro ku jirto ay kula dhacday xaaskeeda hooyadeed oo lagu magacaabi jirey Yvonne Marie Kirk oo 65 sano jir ahayd iyadoona ay si xun ula dhacday mindi weyn taas oo keentay inay islaantaasi ay ku dhimatey isla goobtaas. Haweeneydaan Soomaalida oo iyad

Moscow, Dad tiradooda lagu qiyaasay Kun qof ayaa la sheegay in dhaawac ka soo gaaray dhagaxaan olalaya oo iyagoo sida kubada u duuban, xawaare sida gantaalada oo kale ahna ku socda ku habsaday jimcihii shalay dhinaca bari ee gobolka Ural ee dalka Ruushka. Sida ay ku warameen wakaaladaha wararka dunida, waxa gobolka Ural ee dalka Ruushka Jimcihii shalay, ku habsaday dhagaxyo hawada sare ka soo dhacay, kuwaas oo sida gantaalka u socday iyaga oo olalayana laga arkayay cirka ka hor intii aanay ku habsan degaankaas ee aanay sababin dhaawaca iyo khasaaraha tirada badan. Dadka ku wax yeeloobay ayaa la sheegay in badankoodu ay ku dhaawacmeen daaqadaha guryaha oo markii ay burbureen, ku soo firaray, waxaana burbur wayni soo gaaray guryaha degaankaas oo markii dhagaxaas olalayay uu ku habsaday degaankaas sida dhul gariirka oo kale ugu burburay ama ugu dumay. Dadka ku dhaawacmay shilkaan ayaa badankoodu arkayay oo daawanayay markii dhagxaantaas oo sida kubad wayn oo kale ahi cirka ka soo

In Egypt, thousands of men and women have marched against the sexual harrassment of female protestors.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has arrived in Cairo, marking the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. Ahmadinejad flew into the capital, Cairo, to attend a summit of the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), which begins on Wednesday. Al Jazeera's Rawyah Rageh reports from Cairo.

The Somali President is in Europe, where he's trying to persuade leaders to invest in his country. Among the issues he hopes to address is the state of the Horn of Africa nation's judiciary. Speaking to Al Jazeera from London, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the president, said though his government "is the only government that has proven" it is dedicated to improving the lives of women in the nation, he will not directly interfere in an ongoing court case a woman allegedly gang-raped by soldiers and the journalist who conducted an interview with her about the sexual abuse.

French-backed Malian troops searched house-to-house in Gao and Timbuktu on Tuesday, uncovering arms and explosives abandoned by Islamist fighters, and France said it aimed to hand over longer-term security operations in Mali to an African force. An 18-day offensive in France's former West African colony has pushed the militants out of major towns and into desert and mountain hideouts to head off the risk of Mali being used as a springboard for jihadist attacks in the wider region or Europe. French and Malian troops retook the two Saharan trading towns of Timbuktu and Gao at the weekend virtually unopposed. Doubts remain about just how quickly the African intervention force, known as AFISMA and now expected to exceed 8,000 troops, could be fully deployed in Mali to hunt down and eradicate retreating al Qaeda-allied insurgents in the north. International donors meeting in Addis Ababa pledged just over $455 million for the Mali crisis. But it was not clear whether all of t

President Mohamed Mursi is to leave Egypt's political crisis behind on Wednesday with a short trip to Germany to seek urgently needed foreign investment and convince Europe of his democratic credentials. But with the Egyptian army chief warning on Tuesday that the state was on the brink of collapse after days of lethal street violence, Mursi cancelled plans to go on to Paris from Berlin and will instead hurry back to Cairo later in the day. Fifty-two people have been killed in unrest surrounding the two-year anniversary of Egypt's popular revolution, whose values Mursi's critics say he has betrayed. His supporters say protesters want to overthrow Egypt's first democratically elected leader, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood that was banned under former President Hosni Mubarak but has come to dominate Egypt since his downfall in 2011. Mursi on Monday declared a month-long state of emergency in three violence-ridden cities on the Suez Canal - Port Said, Is

Maxkamada sare ee dalka Masar ayaa taageerayaal gaaraya 21 qof ku xukuntay in la toogto kadib markii lagu helay in ay ku lug lahaayeen mashaqadii ka dhacday magaalada Boor Saciid ee wadanka Masar iyadoo qaar kalena ay xukun sugayaal yihiin oo ay sheegtay maxkamadu in xukun lagu rididoono bisha March ee soo socota. Dhibaatadaan ayaa dhacday kadib markii taageerayaasha kooxda ka dhisan magaaladaas ay soo weerareen taageerayaasha kooxda Al-Ahli kadib kulan ka tirsananaa horyaalka wadanka Masar uu dhexmaray labadaas kooxood. Taageerayaasha kooxdaan Almasri ayaa weerar kusoo qaaday taageerayaasha Al Ahli ayagoo halkaas ku dilay dad gaaraya 72 ruux oo naftooda meeshaas ku waayey, ayadoona boqolaal kalena ay dhaawacya kala duwan kasoo gaaray dhacdadaas murugada leh oo ka dhacday magaalada Boor Saciid. Arrintaan shaqaaqada ahayd ayaa keentay in la joojiyo horyaalka wadanka Masar intii ka danbeesey dhacdaas, balse wada xaajood badan kadib ayaa bishii lasoo dhaafay dib loo furay kadib