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Somalia: Al Shabaab Funnels Zakat Back to the Poor in Mogadishu
The Islamist Somali fighters, Al Shabaab, have distributed, again, the yearly Zakat alms amounting to thousands in Mogadishu, inside the capital of the weak...
Valeria Porokhova, Translator Of Qur’an Into Russian, Passes Away
Valeria (Iman) Porokhova, a well-known translator of the Qur’an into the Russian language, has died in Moscow at the age of 79.
Russian media outlets...
A Revived Somaliland Cultural Scene Fights To be Seriously Appreciated
The arts scene is booming in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland but, as the BBC's Mary Harper writes, the people who are pushing the...
Somaliland: Underground Christian Wife Says She Was Divorced, Beaten When Discovered
The husband of a 32-year-old mother of two children in Somalia had just discovered that his wife owned a Bible and demanded that she...
77 Traits of Highly Successful People – An Indispensable Manual
The 77 Traits of Highly Successful people, 232 pages, by Mark Foo, is summarized here by Dr. Salma Heiss. The result is a manual...
Hamed Jama: Departure of the Brown Intellectual – Writes Ex-PresidentAli Nassir
Hamed Jama Hussein (aka حامد جامع) , a cultured intellectual, died in Aden, where he lived and lived the lives of ordinary people as a whole,...
Somaliland: Hadraawi Poems Show Commitment of Poet and Man – A Review
Within the literary sphere, there has oft’ been this argument of what the actual role of the poet ought to be in society. On...
A literary snapshot of Somaliland – A Country Full of Pleasant Surprises
I spent last week at arguably the most well-organised and longest-running book festival in East Africa, the Hargeysa International Book Fair. It was my...
Somalia’s enduring love affair with Bollywood
Amitabh Bachchan probably doesn’t know it, but he is big in Somalia. So big that he even has his own Somali nickname. SAMIRA SAWLANI...
Terrorism a Common Challenge for Muslims, Christians to Tackle
Terrorists are criminals whose actions are not sanctioned by an religious groups and the fight against terrorism must he seen in that light according...
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Somaliland Police Stops the Waddani-called Demonstration on Security, Legality Grounds
The Somaliland Police Commissioner, Brigadier-General Mohamed Adan Sanqadhi 'Dabagale', urged Waddani supporters not to heed their leader's call for a massive demonstration tomorrow, Monday.
The...
Somaliland: Five Things You Need to Know this Week about Global Education
Our news roundup includes new schools in Somaliland, a film about child slavery in India and children back in class after earthquakes in the...
Somaliland: ‘East of Borama’ Armed Insurgents Opt for Peace
An armed, rebellious group calling itself 'Awale' decided, on Thursday, to lay down arms and realign itself to mainstream Somaliland.
At an occasion Sultans, professors,...