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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Technique for letting brain talk to computers now tunes in speech
U.S. researchers have proven that with the help of an implanted chip can read minds. And even control computer. There are many directions we could take this, including development of…
Mussa Kussa Warns Against a New Somalia
About two weeks ago the former Libyan Foreign Minister Mussa kussa went off to the UK. Now he spoke to the media the first time. The former Libyan Foreign Minister…
French police warned not to arrest Muslim women
Muslim women defy France’s ban on full-face veils. Police in France have been warned not to arrest any women wearing Muslim veils in or around mosques, ahead of a full-blown…
VIDEO – How An Indian Kitchen Works – Now This Is FAST Food
Wouldn’t it be easier if they just shifted closer together rather than having to chuck the food. But is still neat to watch though.
First Two French Women Arrested for Wearing Niqab
PARIS — A French ban outlawing full-face veils in public, the first to be enacted in Europe, came into force on Monday and faced immediate, if low-key, challenges. The police…
Un-reserve Dollar? US thinkers up for world order reshape
Major financial players from around the world are debating the future of the global economy in the iconic US town of Bretton Woods. The summit held by billionaire philanthropist George…
Video – A spooky drive through the deserted exclusion zone and up the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Fukushima, Japan – The Japanese government has issued the evacuation order on March 12 for the residents living within the 20 kilometer radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant….
Regular Fasting May Boost Heart Health
April 4, 2011, 2:45 pm Regular Fasting May Boost Heart Health By TARA PARKER-POPE Regular fasting may be good for your heart. That’s the finding of a new study from…
