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...Abdi Bilow, 52, says his herd of 100 cattle has dwindled to just three scrawny cows. “It’s unlikely they’ll survive, they have nothing to eat....
...The call was to give them ammunition and organise them under the command of the Somali army,” says Hussein Sheikh-Ali, the national security adviser....
...President Mohamed Abdullahi, known as Farmaajo, and his prime minister Mohamed Hussein Roble clashed in April when the president unilaterally tried to extend his four-year term by two years, prompting skirmishes...
...Ize, who was born in Nigeria and moved to Austria when he was four, studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under the guidance of Hussein Chalayan, interned at New York-based Edun and was an LVMH...
...The resilience of al-Shabaab’s political and social apparatus means that air strikes alone are a dead-end, according to Rashid Abdi, Horn of Africa program director at the International Crisis Group....
...Mr Osman responded equally effusively. “Today is a day of joy because two identical peoples and two generations have been separated throughout that period,” he said....
...Abdirahman Osman, Somalia’s information minister, described the attack as “barbaric” in the early hours of Monday, and said that, in addition to those killed, about 300 people were injured....
...Abdirahman Omar Osman Yarisow, the Somali information minister, says Mogadishu is “not opposed to a referendum” but adds several caveats....
...Somali and international officials say Mr Schulman did however meet with finance minister Hussein Abdi Halane and, separately, Somalia president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in recent weeks in an effort to reactivate...
...“We can’t stomach the idea,” says Ramzi Osman, a major at the last checkpoint between the peshmerga and Isis. “We’re against terrorists, but we don’t like Baghdad.”...
...At least with Iraq we have a constitution that makes us equal partners,” laments Hiwa Osman, a Kurdish commentator....
...“I have been chewing since 1989,” says Abdi Mohamed, 41, a social worker. “If qat caused mental health problems, I would be completely mad by now.”...
...Hardline leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, who favours international jihad over the others’ more nationalist agenda, has successfully ousted the pragmatists....
...Abdikarin Hussein Guled, the interior minister, was not in the convoy, they said. Four passers-by and one soldier are reported to be among the dead....
...“Puntland came up with this creative imaginary boundary to entice oil and gas companies,” says Hussein Abdi Dualeh, Somaliland’s energy minister....
...“We are embarking on the largest and most significant exploration this country has seen since it became independent 21 years ago,” oil minister Hussein Abdi Dualeh told beyondbrics from an oil conference...
...Twelve days before the US helicopters were gunned down, the US had captured Osman Ali Atto, a gun runner and financier, and Aideed’s number two....
...We are eight years ahead of other Middle East countries,” says Mr Osman....
...Jensen, Sophia Kokosalaki and Osman Yousefzada) was recently launched at Almaty’s Central State Museum in Kazakhstan and is now en route to Uzbekistan, Russia, Bangladesh and Pakistan....
...“The first one to jump on the ship, his name was Abdi,” said Hersi. “Computer bought him a $15,000 Land Cruiser as a gift.”...
...Mr Wilson, who is known as a designer of bold costume jewellery for names such as Hussein Chalayan and Karl Lagerfeld but who uses precious metals for his own collection, says: “It was a challenge to work...
...Rashid Abdi, an analyst at the International Crisis Group, said the president, like most Somali politicians, probably had properties and bank accounts in Kenya....
...The Brazilian’s bad luck was to live in the same block of flats as Hussein Osman, one of the would-be bombers....
...“In the next assembly it may be easier to solve problems than it is now,” said Mahmoud Osman, an independent Kurdish parliamentarian....
...Italian police, acting on tips from British authorities, arrested Osman Hussein, a suspect in the failed 21 July bombings....
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