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Africa Oil hatches Somalia deal
Africa Oil hatches Somalia deal Upstream Online Friday, May 13, 2011 Canadian independent Africa Oil has penned a letter of intent with a mystery drilling outfit in advanced of a…
Somaliland Plans to Halt Use of Somali Shilling by Mid-June
Nairobi, Kenya(Bloomberg) — Somaliland’s central bank will begin exchanging 7 billion Somali shillings ($4.37 million) of notes for its own currency next month as part of a plan to stop…
Somali Migrants still flowing to Yemen despite crisis
Somali Migrants still flowing to Yemen despite crisis Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Hassan Abdel Moneim Mostafa, a Middle East regional adviser for the IOM, said Yemen’s crisis…
Boiler rooms: ‘I lost £400,000 in a share scam’
Boiler room fraudsters are using new tactics to persuade investors to pay tens of thousands of pounds for non-existent shares. The City of London police and the Financial Services Authority…
New Jersey Transit Worker, Fired After Burning Koran, Wins Back His Job
A New Jersey Transit worker who was fired after burning pages of a Koran during a demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11 last year has been reinstated, reimbursed for…
Life inside Somaliland’s pirate prison
By Jane Ferguson, for CNN Hargeisa, Somaliland (CNN) — “We want money,” say the group of inmates with a smile. Somaliland’s highest security prison hasn’t dampened the hustling spirit of…
Oxford ‘off limits’ to star black pupil
Five top grades at A-level were not enough to win a Somalian girl a place, as university admits she was ‘disadvantaged’ by their admissions process Oxford University has…
Colonel Gaddafi ‘parades through Tripoli in a jeep to delight of supporters
Although Libya’s capital is under attack, there is Muammar al-Gaddafi driving around in an open carriage and cheering to his followers. Wearing a green safari hat, dark glasses and a…
Rip Off Report with Frightening Fake Viruses and Trojans “Scare Ware”
With nasty tricks PC users are tempted to buy alleged security programs. The fraudulent “security software” is deceptively fabricating fictitious computer problems that don’t exist. The massive attack managed to inject the…
Lakers: Kobe Bryant fined $100,000 by the NBA for derogatory comment he made during game
LOS ANGELES – The NBA fined Kobe Bryant $100,000 on Wednesday for using a derogatory gay term in frustration over a referee’s call. NBA Commissioner David Stern issued a swift…
