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Tourism down­turn leaves 3,000 Lamu ho­tel staff job­less

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More than 3,000 ho­tel work­ers in Lamu County are job­less fol­low­ing the clo­sure of six beach ho­tels. The re­sorts shut down due to lack of in­ter­na­tional guests, ac­cord­ing to Lamu Tourist As­so­ci­a­tion Vice-Chair­man Ghalib Alwy. He said since last year, Eu­ro­pean to... More »


Al-Shabaab in­jures po­lice of­fi­cers in Garissa at­tack

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Sev­eral po­lice of­fi­cers were in­jured on Mon­day evening af­ter Al-Shabaab at­tacked their con­voy at Yumbis in Fafi Sub-County, Garissa County. The of­fi­cers were trav­el­ling to Yumbis in four ve­hi­cles to re­in­force the squad that was bat­tling the mil­i­tants who had a... More »

Why young mid­west­ern So­ma­lis try to join Is­lamic State

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ON May 3rd two Mus­lim men with ri­fles at­tacked a se­cu­rity guard at a venue in Texas show­ing car­toons of the Prophet Muham­mad. Both were shot dead be­fore they killed any­one—they were in­com­pe­tent ter­ror­ists, for­tu­nately. The Is­lamic State claimed re­spon­si­bil­ity ... More »


So­mali govt com­pletes probe into MP’s mur­der

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So­ma­li­a’s se­cu­rity agen­cies have com­pleted their mur­der in­ves­ti­ga­tions into the killing of a So­mali MP in a drive-by shoot­ing in Mo­gadishu on Sat­ur­day, of­fi­cials told  Sun­day. Ac­cord­ing to a se­nior se­cu­rity of­fi­cials, the in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­cluded that So­mali m... More »

The Conoco – So­ma­lia De­clas­si­fi­ca­tion Pro­ject # 3

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A Tem­po­rary With­drawal – Se­cu­rity Con­cerns 1. “Up­date of Threat As­sess­ment – So­ma­lia.” Ca­ble from US Em­bassy in Mo­gadishu to State De­part­ment Head­quar­ters. 7 Sep­tem­ber 1989. Ca­ble Num­ber: Mo­gadishu 09512. Source: Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act re­lease (2006-01-288... More »