[Garowe] The federal republic of Somalia has improved ties with Kenya after years of turmoil, just moments after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud officially took over on Thursday in a ceremony graced by a number of Heads of States and governments from the continent.
On Friday, a senior Kenyan announced that the Horn of Africa nation had agreed to lift the ban imposed on Khat,
...also spelt kat and qat...
locally known as Miraa. The ban was implemented almost two years ago, following strained diplomatic relations between the two neighboring countries.
During the inauguration on Thursday, outgoing Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta attended the ceremony, signifying improved ties between the two countries following the change of leadership in Mogadishu. Former President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo is accused of triggering the fallout.
For years, Somalia has been battling with Kenya over a maritime border dispute, leading to a landmark ruling last year which largely favored the Horn of Africa nation. However, ars longa, vita brevis... Kenya was quick to dismiss the ruling by the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
Peter Munya, Kenya's Agriculture minister, announced that the East African country will start exporting Khat to Somalia after two years of suspension. The narcotic drug is widely used within Somalia as a mild stimulant drug.
According to Munya, the agreement between the two countries will be ready for signing within the next two weeks. Previously, aircrafts ferrying Khat to Somalia were locked out by the space agency which was under strict instructions from Villa Somalia.
The ban imposed in March 2020 led to a loss of more than 50 tonnes of Kenyan khat a day valued at around six million shillings [$50,000], according to Kimathi Munjuri, chairman of the Nyambene Miraa Traders Association in central Kenya, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports.
Somalia has been having a frost relationship with Kenya but the tension was minimized when the outgoing Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble visited Nairobi where he held talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta over deteriorating ties.
"A peaceful and prosperous Federal Republic of Somalia is the dream of every Kenyan," Kenyatta said at Mohamud's inauguration.
"Your brothers and sisters in Kenya look forward to working with you so that we can all benefit economically and prosper together."
Kenyan exports to Somalia of 13 billion shillings [over $110 million] accounted for nearly five percent of its total exports to African countries in 2021, according to government data released last month.
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had pledged to ensure the economy of the country is up and running following years of mismanagement under Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo. The president also pledged to work with other stakeholders to improve security within the country.
In a recent interview with friendly media, the embattled ex-@HSNQ_NISA Dir Fahad Yasin confesses that he was a member of Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya, a violent Islamist group that later cracked and turned into political. Fahad also claims to have held senior ranks within AIAI#Somaliapic.twitter.com/3DHNkVS8OS
For some reason, the nickname of Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya was AlAl. About as imaginative as all those people named variations of Mohammed, sometime in multiple variations for one person.
[AlAhram] Egyptian political forces preparing themselves for the national dialogue proposed by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi on 26 April reject any participation by Islamists, particularly the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund.
The rejection followed a series of statements issued in recent days by a number of Islamists and Moslem Brüderbund officials living in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and some European capitals.
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Judges ruled laws had a 'punitive character' that gave exclusively judicial power
Delil Alexander was stripped of his citizenship after suspected terrorist offences
The High Court found Alexander's cancelled citizenship was unconstitutional
Two Australians suspected of terrorist activities will have their citizenship reinstated after the High Court found powers used by the government to cancel them were unconstitutional.
Turkish-Australian Delil Alexander, 35, is in jail in Syria after his Australian citizenship was removed on July 2 last year.
The identity of the second person is unknown.
Alexander's lawyers argued the Sydney-born man was in danger of 'serious human rights violations' including torture while imprisoned in Syria.
A majority of the High Court found on Wednesday the citizenship stripping powers legislated by the former coalition government were invalid. The court found it gave the former home affairs minister 'the exclusively judicial function of adjudging and punishing criminal guilt'.
It is understood Alexander and the other person will have their citizenship restored, but the decision will not impact on people held onshore.
Alexander left Australia for Turkey on April 16, 2013, but just over two weeks later he was married in Syria.
ASIO assessed he joined terrorist group Islamic State by August 2013 - a qualified security assessment over which he has sought judicial review.
In November 2017, he was arrested by Kurdish militia in a place in Syria which was not a declared area under Australian terrorist laws.
Alexander was transferred to Syrian custody and given five years in jail for 'unspecified offences under the Syrian Penal Code'. He was pardoned in June last year, having served 18 months of his term.
Shortly after he was pardoned, the ASIO director-general provided classified advice to the then home affairs minister which did not recommend citizenship cancellation, the court heard. However, the minister Karen Andrews stripped Alexander's citizenship in July 2021.
Since then, he has been in Syrian intelligence custody and his family and lawyers have been unable to contact him, leading to his sister Berivan having to launch the legal action as a 'litigation guardian'.
Government lawyers argued the minister met the three required conditions in the decision: a person has engaged in the requisite conduct; the conduct demonstrates the person has repudiated their allegiance to Australia; and it would be contrary to the public interest for them to remain an Australian citizen.
Former attorney-general Christian Porter, in introducing the changes in 2018, argued stripping Australian citizenship of people who sought to do the nation harm was an 'an integral part of our ongoing response to international violent extremism and terrorism'.
Alexander's lawyers argued the power to cancel the status of an Australian citizen is 'inherently a domestic matter' and should be reserved for a judge.
The court heard Alexander retains Turkish citizenship.
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Based on "The court found it gave the former home affairs minister 'the exclusively judicial function of adjudging and punishing criminal guilt'."
It seems to imply the courts wants to be the ruling authority, not some bureaucrat or collection of their minions.
However, I do agree when an immigrant citizen takes up arms against a duly elected government, after having earned and been granted citizenship. That citizenship should be revoked by an independent, unbiased court. They should then be expelled AFTER having served their Prison term.
[IsraelTimes] Demand that Salah Abdeslam, 32, not have possibility of parole is extremely rare in La Belle France; verdict due on June 29; 19 others also on trial, accused of assisting killers.
Prosecutors in the Gay Paree attacks trial on Friday demanded a life sentence without parole for the main suspect in the November 2015 jihadist strike that killed 130 in La Belle France’s worst-ever terror assault.
Salah Abdeslam,
...the connected Moroccan-French boy who ran with all the other petty criminals in the notoriously Salafist Molenbeek neighbourhood until they grew up to transfer that sense of entitlement to membership in ISIS. Mr. Abdeslam has already been sentenced in Belgium in a separate trial. It appears he has abandoned the habit of silence that got him twenty years for that one...
a 32-year-old Frenchie, is the only surviving member of the attackers who opened fire in the packed Bataclan concert hall and on cafe terraces in adjacent streets, and detonated suicide bombs at the Stade de La Belle France sports arena.
The request that Abdeslam should not have the possibility of parole is extremely rare in La Belle France, where prisoners serving life sentences are often released after 20 to 25 years.
Also on trial are 19 others accused of various degrees of assistance to the killers, from providing logistical support to planning the attacks or supplying weapons.
Prosecutors also requested standard life sentences for suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... members, Swedish citizen Osama Krayem
....alias Naim al Ahmed, who grew up in Malmo before toddling off to ISIS in Syria...
and Tunisian Sofien Ayari,
...this is his first mention in Rantburg, but he reportedly came across from Tunisia during the 2015 invasion, immediately falling in with the francophone cell, which is suggestive of previous connections and activities. He was arrested with Mr. Abdeslam at the end, which is also suggestive...
and one for Mohammed Abrini, a Belgian accused of having provided weapons and logistical support.
Abrini, known as the "man in the hat" from video footage, would go on to take part in suicide kabooms that struck Brussels in 2016, though he decided not to detonate his vest at the last minute.
Abdeslam has also claimed during the trial that he had a last-minute change of heart, which failed to convince the prosecution.
The length of the trial, its emotional charge and the number of plaintiffs — 2,500 — have made it the most impactful legal proceedings in French history.
The remainder of the trial will now be dedicated to closing statements by defense lawyers.
The verdict is due on June 29.
Abdeslam, who was arrested in Belgium after five months on the run, kept silent during the police investigation but started talking during the trial, explaining how he gave up plans to blow himself up, and apologized to victims.
But his tearful appeal for forgiveness had little impact on the prosecutors, who believe that his boom belt simply malfunctioned.
Prosecutors also said that Abdeslam’s claim that he was recruited by a jihadist cell only a few days before the attacks was "illogical."
A verdict of life in prison without parole has been handed down only four times since it was implemented in 1994, and all but rules out a later reduction of the sentence, and only after at least 30 years behind bars.
Prosecutors also requested standard life sentences for Mohammed Bakkali, accused of being the logistics coordinator of the attacks, as well as for five suspected Islamic State members believed to have been killed in Syria or Iraq.
For the remaining suspects, sentences of five to 16 years were requested.
Such lovely people. Just the kind one should believe when they start telling you about those awful, awful Juices.
[IsraelTimes] Jewish arts group, schools, synagogues among network purported to be responsible for wide-ranging societal harms by the anonymous page, which also names the organizations’ staffers.
A Jewish arts group. A Jewish high school. A Jewish newspaper. A synagogue network. A major Jewish philanthropy that directs funds to mental health, homelessness prevention and refugee resettlement initiatives.
These are a few of the locations on a dense interactive map of "Zionist leaders and powerhouse NGOs" in Massachusetts created by an activist group that says it aims to expose "local institutional support for the colonization of Paleostine" and reveal how support for Zionist causes is a nexus point for various "other harms" in society, ranging from gentrification to the prison-industrial complex to ableism.
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Only the victims care, Too Old To Work. But the fashionably pro-Palestinian corner of the internet knows.
1/3 Israel strongly condemns BDS Boston’s publication of a map of local Jews and its blaming them for anything and everything wrong in Greater Boston. pic.twitter.com/vEf2cfbvdL
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Garowe] The federal republic of Somalia has improved ties with Kenya after years of turmoil, just moments after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud officially took over on Thursday in a ceremony graced by a number of Heads of States and governments from the continent.
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
