Camel milk can cost $30 a litre. Why is it so expensive?

Photo Credit Drome Dairy Camel milk can cost you 30 times the price of cow milk. The milk is popular across the Middle East and Africa, with 64% of the worldwide camel milk production coming from Somalia and Kenya. Camels produce far less milk than cows, and they have much longer gestation periods. Narrator: Camel

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Turkey quake kills at least 21, aftershocks continue – live blog

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 hit Turkey’s eastern Elazığ province on Friday evening, killing at least 21 people and leaving 1,030 others injured, according to the latest update of the country’s disaster agency. The Kandilli Observatory in Istanbul later revised the magnitude of the earthquake as 6.6. Depth of tremor recorded at

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Bomb blast kills 2, wounds 6 in Somalia

No group has yet claimed responsibility for attack At least two people were killed and six wounded when a roadside bomb blast targeted a military vehicle near Bal’ad Middle in the Shabelle region Friday, officials said. The vehicle was traveling from Jowhar, the administrative capital of Hirshabelle State, to Bal’ad district. Mohamud Abdi Hassan, a

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Hundreds of patients recalled over concerns Solihull consultant carried out unnecessary operations

Photo Credit Birmingham Mail Orthopaedic surgeon Habib Rahman More than 200 patients who were treated by consultant orthopaedic surgeon Habib Rahman at the Spire Parkway hospital in Solihull have been contacted about the concerns Hundreds of patients have been recalled after concerns were raised that a Solihull medic had been performing unnecessary operations at a

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‘We want them out’: Iraq protesters call for US troops exit

Supporters of Iraqi Shia Muslim leader Muqtada al-Sadr protest against what they say is US presence and violations in Iraq [Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters] Thousands march in Baghdad, heeding to call by Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr for an anti-US demonstration. Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, after Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr

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Somali American Teens Held At Gunpoint By Cops Reach $170K Settlement

Facebook / CAIR Halimo Sisse, mother of one of the victims, speaks at a press conference Wednesday during which the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced the settlement. The teens feared for their lives after an officer pulled a gun on them at a park in Minneapolis in 2018. The families of

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US anti-terror aid to Kenya hits Sh40bn in ten years

President Uhuru Kenyatta and US leader Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC during an official visit August 27, 2018 . PHOTO | JOAN PERERUAN | NMG The US has given Kenya Sh40 billion in counterterrorism aid over the last decade, a new report has shown, placing the country’s security agencies among Africa’s

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Explainer: Highest U.N. court can tell states what to do – but not enforce

In ordering Myanmar on Thursday to take immediate measures to prevent atrocities against its Muslim Rohingya minority, the International Court of Justice in The Hague was handing down a binding ruling with no possibility of appeal – and no means of enforcement. It was exercising its power to ordain provisional measures – a restraining order

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Burundian soldier killed in Somalia IED attack

Roadside bomb targeted armored vehicle carrying African Union mission’s soldiers, local media says A Burundian soldier serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) was killed on Wednesday in a roadside blast in the outskirts of Mogadishu, local media and police said. According to media reports, several other soldiers were also injured when an

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Somalia Offers to Take Swedish Islamic State Members from Syria

Photo Credit Reuters Somalian President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has offered to take in Swedish-Somalian Islamic State members, stating that he will accept them if European countries will not take them. Kurdish authorities have said that around half of the Swedish woman in the al-Hol prison camp have a Somalian background, a number estimated to be

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