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According to starrfmonline.com, Somalia, Djibouti and Ghana are among the top 10 African countries with the most desirable women. The website reported: Ghanaian women are the third most beautiful ladies in Africa, according to ranking site Ranker. They were beaten to the top spot by Somalia and Djibouti in that order, suggesting Somalian ladies are the most beautiful on the …

Costa Rican police continued rounding up undocumented migrants this week with the detention on Wednesday of four Eritreans and four Somalis who were traveling toward the Peñas Blancas border crossing with Nicaragua. The arrests, which included a Costa Rican man traveling with the group, occurred at a police checkpoint outside Abangares, in the northwestern province of Guanacaste. Police stopped the …

By John M. Glionna – Los Angeles Times : Kadra Mohamed walks into an old haunt, the Grocery and Meat Market on St. Paul’s north side, where as a girl she shopped with her mother. She breathes in the heady smell of Somali spices, halal meat and the bread she has loved since growing up in a nearby public housing project. …

At age 8, Mina married to 12 -year-old Sardar in a rural village, making her only one of more than 10 million underage girls who are being forced to wed worldwide. The secret wedding ceremony of Mina and Sardar took place in Sholgara district of northern Balkh province in the border with Tajikistan. Child marriages, which are currently, practiced in …

HRW – (Nairobi) – Soldiers from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have sexually abused and exploited vulnerable Somali women and girls on their bases in Mogadishu, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Troop-contributing countries, the African Union (AU), and donors to AMISOM should urgently address these abuses and strengthen procedures inside Somalia to seek justice. …

If excessive hair fall is worrying you, try these quick and easy ways to rejuvenate your locks. Losing strands of hair on a daily basis can sure leave us frustrated and worried, whether you’re a woman or a man. Trichologists say that losing 50 to 100 strands per day is completely normal, so if your hair fall is above that …

The African Media Initiative (AMI) has taken the difficult decision of postponing the 7th African Media Leaders Forum, which was due to take place from November 12-14th 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This action is a result of much debate by the AMI board and management, and is informed by current developments on the continent. As part of precautionary measures …

A new study reveals that drinking tea could reduce non-cardiovascular mortality by 24 percent, possibly thanks to a combination of tea’s antioxidant content and the other healthy lifestyle habits that tea drinkers often maintain. “If you have to choose between tea or coffee it’s probably better to drink tea,” says Professor Nicholas Danchin of the cardiology unit at the Georges …

Mohammed is now the most common name for men in Norway’s capital city Oslo, it appears. “It is very exciting,” Jorgen Ouren of Statistics Norway tells The Local news website. A recent count of the city’s population showed more than 4,800 men and boys in the city are called Mohammed, beating out other popular names like Jan and Per. Although …

Hargeysa (CNN) In 1856, British explorer Richard Burton described Somalia as a nation of poets. It may seem an unlikely moniker for a country that has since become defined by piracy, state collapse, and the many horrors unleashed by Al-Shabaab — the Islamic extremists who control much of the country. But, much has changed since then. Despite appearances, the country …

For a town seen as a key trading centre for khat, a plant that is banned in many countries, Ethiopia’s Awaday can seem pretty drowsy and laid-back. As the sun sets on the small eastern town, farmers and brokers of the amphetamine shrub rouse from an afternoon slumber to cut deals in the bustling market, one of the busiest centres …

A happy marriage needs a solid foundation and continuous care to grow and flourish. If love, care and respect are lacking, any relationship would be in vain, and marriage is no exception. In Islam we have a wealth of divine guidelines and wisdom to ensure Muslims succeed in building healthy families, even in today’s complicated, unstable and fast changing world. …

1. Knowledge of and love for Allah and the Deen. This is one of the most precious and enduring gifts you can pass down to your daughter, one that will benefit her in this life and the next. 2. Memorisation of the Qur’aan. No matter how little you have memorised yourself, push your daughter to memorise as much she can. …

A female detainee who became ill at an immigration removal centre is to undergo tests for the Ebola virus. The woman, understood to have arrived from Sierra Leone, was being held at Dungavel Detention Centre in South Lanarkshire. A spokesman for NHS Lanarkshire said: “We are currently investigating a possible case of Viral Haemorrhagic Fever (Ebola). “This is a precautionary …

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 71 million Americans, or 33.5 percent of the total population, suffer from high LDL cholesterol. Only one in three of these individuals has their condition under control, while less than half of them choose to treat it at all. Moreover, the average total cholesterol for adult Americans is around 200 mg/dL, …