The Adan Report

AbdiNasir Mohamed Guled
Friday, December 04, 2009
I was in the Hotel Shamo here Thursday morning to cover the graduation of the second class of doctors, engineers and professors to leave Benadir University — an image of Somalia different from the typical one, war.
After hours of tape-recording speeches, I felt thirsty and moved 10 steps toward the [...]

The increasing levels of piracy off the coast of Somalia have caused an unexpected spin-off, raising the levels of fish in the sea.
Fisherman in Kenya have reported bumper catches of shark and shellfish because commercial fishing boats from China and Japan have been scared away.
Now the fishermen are able to catch up to £200 worth of fish per [...]

 
A secretive group known as The Fellowship, or “The Family,” is one of the most powerful Christian fundamentalist movements in the United States. The Family’s devoted membership includes congressmen, corporate leaders, generals and foreign heads of state. Author Jeff Sharlet profiles the group in his book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of [...]

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The US is bound by shared history to Africa  – a history that has been a source of much pain and conflict.
Recently, however, there have been two significant developments which may define the  relationship between the US and Africa for decades to come.
The first is a legacy of the Bush administration – [...]

Al Jazeera’s Rageh Omar, who was born in Somalia, says peace will return to the country when people begin to see “all the things that they do not see there – a stable and viable government that the people accept”.

Many of the pirates operating off the coast of Somalia were given special forces-style training from Western firms, a special report by Al Jazeera has found.
 
Some security firms currently protecting shipping from the pirates had been engaged to train them a decade ago.
 
One company, Hart Security, coached trainees to be the “coastguard” of Somalia’s semi-autonomous [...]

LONDON – Authorities arrested 90 people after racially charged violence erupted between a group protesting Islamic extremism and counter-demonstrators in the central English city of Birmingham, police said Sunday.
The clashes erupted Saturday when a rally by the English Defense League ran into counter-demonstrators including anti-fascists and youths of South Asian descent, West Midlands Police said.
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A week after the 9/11 attacks, a young Muslim at the University of South Alabama told the school’s newspaper it was “difficult to believe a Muslim could have done this.”Now, eight years later, he is professing to launch attacks himself and calling on others to join the fight, as terror-related charges await him at home [...]