Casablanca’s mild Mediterranean climate and beautiful architecture make it one of the most desirable locales in the world. This Moroccan city is as surprising as it is beautiful. While it doesn’t conform to Hollywood’s version, here you will find the city’s own secrets and treasures and realize that Casablanca is much more than you were [...]
Dean’s Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas A blue hole is created when the ceiling to an ancient cave system collapses in the ocean — Dean’s is thought to be the world’s deepest. Fin your way off the powder-white beach and watch the sand go from 5 to more than 600 feet deep in just a [...]
WASHINGTON (CNN) — AirTran Airways apologized Friday to members of a Muslim family for kicking them off a plane and refusing to rebook them despite requests from FBI agents who had cleared them of wrongdoing. // //CNN.imageChanger.load(‘cnnImgChngr’,'imgChng/p1-0.exclude.html’); // ]]> The families of Atif Irfan, a tax attorney, and his brother Kashif Irfan, an anesthesiologist, were [...]
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Prime Minister Zenawi LONDON (Reuters) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was quoted on Tuesday as saying he was preparing to step down and that discussions on the issue had already started within his ruling party. “My personal position is that I have had enough,” Meles, who came to power in [...]
The Ogaden Voice for Peace Monday, June 15, 2009 On the week of June 8th, 2009, a team of Ogaden Voice Peace activists and their Washington DC based political advisors paid a visit to Washington’s corridors of power in order to meet with legislators on Capitol Hill, The State Department, and other unidentified entities whose [...]
HYDRO WORLD Saturday, May 30, 2009 Ethiopia’s Ministry of Water Resources announced it finalized a feasibility study to construct a 246-MW hydroelectric station on the Genale River in Somali State. The government’s Ethiopian News Agency reported May 19, 2009, the ministry said a plan is set to build the station in Somali’s Liben zone. The [...]
NAIROBI, Kenya-Young, newly rich and restless, Ali Abdinur Samo wasn’t long for his dead-end homeland of Somalia. The 26-year-old recently decamped to Kenya, East Africa’s land of opportunity, to put his wealth to work. “I’m looking around,” said Samo, whose close-cropped hair is already flecked with gray, an occupational hazard in his line of work. [...]
MADRID (AFP) — Spain handed over to Kenyan authorities Saturday 13 alleged Somali pirates its navy had been holding in the Indian Ocean, the defence ministry said, putting an end to a judicial row. The Spanish naval supply ship Marques de la Ensenada had delivered the men in the Kenyan port of Mombasa at 0800 [...]