Two Canadian women detained in Somaliland since January have been freed, according to sources. Maymona Abdi, 28, and Karima Watts, 23, were arrested more than three months ago in Hargeisa, the most populous city in the self-declared state in the Horn of Africa. They had faced the prospect of 40 lashes each as part of

Security team from ESPS Navarra boards the suspected mothership dhow, April 23 (EUNAVFOR) By MarEx 2019-04-23 11:01:22 On Sunday, two fishing vessels were attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The attempted boardings were both thwarted, but security officials said that they represent a reminder that antipiracy measures are still required when transiting the

A climate change activist is detained during the Extinction Rebellion protest on Waterloo Bridge in London, Britain April 20, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson The number of environmental campaigners arrested during eight days of direct action in London topped 1,000 on Monday, police said, adding that Waterloo Bridge, one of the sites blockaded by the protests, had

Photo The Scotsman. A CRACK cocaine gang battling for control of Edinburgh’s drug market may have been involved in the shooting of Bradley Welsh, it is feared. As detectives issued a description of the suspected hitman, police sources said they “cannot rule out” the possibility that violent thugs formerly based in England – who have

A car burns after petrol bombs were thrown at police in the Creggan area of Londonderry, in Northern Ireland, Thursday, April 18, 2019. (Niall Carson/PA via AP) The dissident republican group, the New IRA, was most likely responsible for the fatal shooting of a journalist during overnight rioting in the city of Londonderry, police in

The mother of one of the two Canadian women detained in Somaliland since January is pleading with the government in Canada to secure their release. Maymona Abdi, 28, and Karima Watts, 23, were arrested by police in January in Hargeisa, the most populous city in Somaliland. They face the prospect of 40 lashes each as

Photo Birmingham Live By Ross McCarthy Bile Siyad died after Abdul Khaya delivered the blow in a street in Birmingham after row over £50 This is the TNT worker who killed a colleague by plunging a knife into his head following a dispute over £50. Bile Siyad collapsed immediately after Abdul Khaya delivered the blow

Four people were killed and five injured when a car loaded with explosives detonated on a busy road in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police said Wednesday, April 17.“So far we can confirm four dead and five wounded. We offer our condolences to the victims,” Somalia’s deputy police chief Zakia Hussein wrote on Twitter. Abdulkadir Abdirahman Adan,

By Joshua Keating, A Somali soldier holds a machine gun at Sanguuni military base, where an American special operations soldier was killed by a mortar attack on June 8, about 450 kilometers south of Mogadishu, Somalia, on June 13. Mohamed Abdiwahab/Getty Images Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The U.S. is committing itself

In November 2008, al-Shabaab commander Mohamed Toora-Toorow, in the company of 24 men, left Somalia at 11pm and walked several kilometres into Kenya. The mission of his unit was to kidnap two Italian nuns: 67-year-old Maria Teresa Olivero and 60-year-old Caterina Giraudo, employed as aid workers in El Wak, a town in Mandera County bordering