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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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…
U.S. brings first case against alleged Somali pirate leader
Washington (CNN) — An alleged Somali pirate leader has been indicted for the takeover of the yacht Quest and the kidnapping of four Americans who subsequently were killed during the…
West vs. China: A New Cold War Begins On Libyan Soil
Patrick Henningsen Infowars.com April 13, 2011 The question as to why US-led NATO forces are determined to engineer a regime change in Libya is now becoming clear. Whilst media pundits…
Apple a day does keep the doctor away
Eating an apple a day is less trip to the doctor’s office; a new study proposes. It found that women on an ‘apple diet’ saw their cholesterol drop by almost…
No Money For the Facebook Winklevoss Twins
Their dispute with Mark Zuckerberg has not only made their lawyers rich: But the brothers Winklevoss can not get there mouth full. But now the judges have spoken a word…
The Worlds Largest Airplan Collided at New York Kennedy Airport
Horror minutes on the New York’s JFK Airport: The Airbus A380 touched the rear of a small aircraft. The passengers escaped with a fright. The National Transportation Safety Board plans to…
The Southern States & The Slavery
The slavery divided the United States today. In the south, the meaning for civil war is often trivialized. In this case the facts speak for themselves. One hundred fifty years after the Civil…
Hosni Mubarak is arrested for corruption allegations
For the family of former Egyptian president, the situation is uncomfortable: Now even Hosni Mubarak is in custody, after his tow sons were arrested on Tuesday night. Egypt‘s former president, Hosni…
