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Somalia’s South West minister demands federal MP’s handover for clan violence trial

axadle
Somalia
BAIDOA, Somalia — South West State’s minister of security on Sunday urged the federal government to hand over federal legislator Dahir Amiin Jeesow to the regional administration to face trial over allegations he helped instigate deadly clan clashes in Lower Shabelle. Speaking to reporters in Baidoa, Security Minister Hassan Abdukadir accused the member of parliament of acting as a spoiler in Walanweyn district and across parts of the Lower Shabelle region, where a recent surge of inter-clan violence has strained local…

Woman handed life sentence in New Zealand ‘suitcase murders’ case

Abdiwahab Ahmed
World
South Korean‑born New Zealander sentenced to life after children’s bodies found in suitcases A South Korean‑born New Zealand woman, Hakyung Lee, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the 2018 murders of her two young children, whose bodies were discovered packed in suitcases in an abandoned storage locker more than three years later, New Zealand media reported. Lee, who is in her 40s, was convicted in September after admitting she killed the children, then aged 8 and 6. During the trial she entered a plea of not…