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 planned exploration well in Somalia. The company has also set up a new company focused on exploration in the war-torn Horn of Africa country’s semi-autonomous Puntland region. Africa...
Somali pirates jailed for 439 years in Spanish court
Tuesday, May 03, 2011 A SPANISH court has sentenced two Somalis to 439 years in jail each for the 2009 hijacking of a Spanish fishing boat in the Indian Ocean and said government-linked bodies paid a ransom to secure the boat and crew’s release. The National Court also said that those convicted were Cabdiweli Cabdullahi and Raageggesey Hassan Aji. The Alakrana...
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 using the Somali currency in the autonomous region by mid-June. “We are preparing for the Somaliland shilling to be used all over Somaliland,” Central Bank of Somaliland Governor Abdi...
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 was complicating efforts to provide aid to African migrants and Yemenis displaced by an on-off civil war in the north. “The challenges we have in Yemen are the inflows from Djibouti,...
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 are warning investors to be on their guard. The low interest rate environment has made Middle England savers the perfect targets for the scams, known as “boiler room” fraud. “Middle-aged,...
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 lost wages and benefits, and awarded $25,000 in compensation for the pain and suffering caused by his dismissal. The reinstatement of the worker, Derek Fenton of Bloomingdale, N.J., was announced on Thursday...
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Successful Young Somalis
This program is featured on Young Perspectives; a show by Universal TV. It demonstrates the hardwork, dedications and achivements of somali youth. http://tvuniversal.tv/NS/vidID/1532
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…
Ring Finger Length Shows if Girls Like You
Ratio between length of right index and ring fingers can predict facial attractiveness .A look at the fingers of a man can give information about if women are attracted to his…
Bigmouth Donald Trump Is Running For President in 2012
Real estate mogul Donald Trump brings himself to the game as he runs for Presidency in 2012. His excellent poll numbers say a lot about him and the state 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…
New heart attack jab even more effective than statins
A simple injection given to patients up to 12 hours after a heart attack or stroke could reduce their devastating effects by more than half, a new study claims. British-based…
A Must Read About Khat
This paper presents a review of literature on the chemical composition of khat (Catha edulis Forsk., Celastraceae). The effect of chewing fresh khat could not be explained satisfactorily by…
What Is a Good Night Sleep?
How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With? We all know that we don’t get enough sleep. But how much sleep do we really need? Until about 15 years ago,…
