‘He was our second Bolivar’ say crowd of supporters, as they gather at former leader’s coffin in Venezuela to mourn his death The Guardian – Rory Carroll in Caracas   They poured down the hillsides chanting he was alive, that he would always be alive, but as the cortege wound its way through the sea [...]

Wadhaf News-March 7, 2013: Daw;ada Somalia ayaa dalka Maraykankan ka codsatay in Jeneraal Maxamad Cali Samatar lagu qadariyo maamuuskii dawladeed ee uu lahaa. Waraqad uu Raysal wasaare Saacid u diray Xoghayaha Arrimaha Dibada bishii hore lix iyo labaatankeedii, waxaa lagu cadeeyay in Jeneraal Samatar ahaa shaqsi maamuus dawladeed huwanaa markii ay ku beegnayd falalka ay [...]

  By ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia February 21, 2013 (AP) Signaling the latest step forward in rapidly strengthening U.S.-Somalia relations, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development spent five hours in Mogadishu on Thursday, the highest ranking U.S. administration official to visit Somalia’s capital in years. The U.S. [...]

Djiboutian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmoud Ali Youssouf received 60 international observers tasked with overseeing Friday’s parliamentary elections, Djibouti’s La Nation reported Wednesday (February 20th). Observers include delegates from the African Union, the Arab League, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation, the International Organisation of the Francophonie, the United Nations and [...]

Armed men held up security van as safes full of diamonds and jewels were being loaded on to a plane The Switzerland-bound plane the diamonds were loaded on to at Brussels international airport. Photograph: Eddy Risch/EPA Belgian police are searching for eight masked gunmen who took less than five minutes to pull off one of [...]

Wadhaf News-Feb. 05, 2013: Dawladda Maraykanka ayaa manta soo saartay qaylo dhaan ay Muwaadiniintooda ku sugan Somaliland iyo kuwa u safrayaba ay ugu digayaan qaraxyo ismiidaamin ah oo lala beegsado. Dawladda Maraykanku waxa ay sidaas ku sheegtay War deg deg ah oo ay sii daysay goor dhaweyd kaasoo ay sii daysay Idaacadda Afka Somaliga ee [...]

Wadhaf News-Feb.05, 2013:Khilaaf aan horey loo arag ayaa ka dhex dilaacay Madaxda ugu sareeysa ee  Somaliland. Khilaafkan ayaa sobobay in Madaxweyne Siilaayo ka baaqdo socdaal uu ugu kicitami lahaa dalka Ingiriiska. Dhacdadani waxay ka dambaysay markii uu Madaxweyne ku xigeenka Somaliland Abdiraxmaan Saylici saxaafada ugu yeedhay gurigiisa isagoo ku casuumay shir jaraa’id oo uu kaga [...]

NEW ORLEANS — Super Bowl coaches John and Jim Harbaugh will have plenty to talk about at future family reunions about the time they met in perhaps the strangest game in Super Bowl history John’s Baltimore Ravens held on for a 34-31 victory vs. Jim’s San Francisco 49ers that came down to the Niners’ fourth-and-goal [...]

Millions pray for victory as Black Stars overcome slow start to move to brink of tournament success Afua Hirsch in Accra – The Observer, Sunday 3 February 2013 In the early morning light, Ghana’s capital, Accra, is dulled by a dusty haze. It is harmattan – the season when a dry wind blows sand through the air [...]