Tullow Oil Considered Bribing Museveni in Tax Dispute
Top officials from British oil firm, Tullow Oil, considered paying $50 million to meet the “short-term needs and demands” of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to help settle a tax dispute against a...
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Top 10 Most Followed African Presidents on Twitter
As Twitter usage continues to expand in Africa, presidents and politicians in the continent are leveraging the unique power of the micro-blogging site to disseminate their political agendas, instantly...
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Images Of Changing Mogadishu
I had come to visit a friend in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital. His second-floor apartment was in a building by the Indian Ocean. It was an idyllic setting: a kaleidoscope of colors. The apartment’s...
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Somalis Mark 53 Years of Independence
Amid signs of renewed hope, Somalis all over the world marked the country’s 53rd independence day. On July 1, 1960, the British-occupied northern territories and the Italian-ruled colonies formed a...
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Somali Journalist in Exile: Journalism is My Profession and Fighting for...
Somali journalist Abdiaziz Abdinoor Ibrahim. [Courtesy of PEN International] The laptop screen became my window into his soul. Even before he said anything, I witnessed his lack of vigor, a certain...
View ArticleJeffrey Gettleman and Western Media’s Narrow View of Africa
Many foreign writers on Africa are guilty of two extremes – condescension and too much praise, with the former being more dominant. It is easy to see why it is so much simpler to be disdainful....
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9 Stunning Photos From The Hajj [+ VIDEO]
More than one million Muslims from around the world are in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to perform the annual Hajj pilgrimage, one of the five pillars of Islam. The pilgrimage is the largest annual gathering...
View ArticleCan Women Train Their Husbands and Get Men to Do What They Want?
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy There is a nagging question that some women often ask themselves. How do they train their husbands? In a world where the...
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9 Books About East and Horn of Africa You Need to Read Before End of 2013
Writer and poet Taban Lo Liyong, a well known literary figure in the region, described East Africa as “a literary desert.” He made these remarks in 1969, his view being that the region didn’t produce...
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Somalia’s passport is more powerful than those of Ethiopia, Djibouti
Somalia – a country that is slowly recovering from more than two decades of civil war – surprisingly has a better passport than some of its neighbors in the Horn of Africa. Financial advisory firm...
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OpEd: Is AMISOM willing to unify and empower Somali National Army?
Ethiopian troops raise Ethiopian, African Union and Somali flags during a ceremony to welcome Ethiopia to Beled Weyne on Feb. 17, 2015. [AU UN IST PHOTO / Ilyas A. Abukar]On July 1, Somalia celebrated...
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