IMAN Cosmetics Announces Brand Partnership with Mataano Designers
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- After a successful partnership during last season's, Spring/Summer 2012 runway show, IMAN Cosmetics is proud to announce their collaboration with Somali design duo, Mataano, who have signed on as the makeup and skincare collection's brand ambassadors. To kick off the partnership, IMAN Cosmetics will be the lead sponsor for the twin designers' Fall 2012 runway show on February 12th, 2012.
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Diverging from the stereotypical characterization of African style, the label's founders, Ayaan and Idyl Mohallim, are shaping a new landscape in the women's ready-to-wear category for the elegantly stylish multicultural woman. With a similar backgr ...
U.S. crew wrestles ship away from pirates
NAIROBI, Kenya - In a riveting high-seas drama, an unarmed American crew wrested control of their U.S.-flagged cargo ship from Somali pirates Wednesday and sent them fleeing to a lifeboat with the captain as hostage.
Holmes: No easy military solution for piracy
It's fitting, considering the ship's illustrious namesake, that the destroyer USS Bainbridge took down three pirates off Somalia, freeing the captain of the freighter Maersk Alabama. But the life of Commodore William Bainbridge, a frigate captain during the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812, suggests that quelling piracy off the Horn of Africa will demand far more than the occasional deployment of Navy SEAL marksmen. It will be a long, arduous endeavor.
R.M. Chandler: Cartoon insulted conservatives
To me, Monday's Banner-Herald editorial cartoon from R.J. Matson of the St. Louis Post Dispatch showed a lack of respect for our country and should not have been published. (EDITOR'S NOTE: The cartoon featured a conservative American being asked if he hated taxes, regulations and government and loved guns, and suggested those things defined the African country of Somalia).
Navy's asymmetrical warfare' against Somali pirates goes back two centuries
NEW YORK - Not for the first time, a powerful U.S. naval fleet designed for all-out war must find a way to swat belligerent mosquitoes - in this case, pirates holding hostage the captain of a container ship in a lifeboat off the African coast.
Pirates hold U.S. ship captain
NAIROBI, Kenya - In a riveting high-seas drama, an unarmed crew wrested control of their U.S.-flagged cargo ship from Somali pirates Wednesday and sent them fleeing to a lifeboat with the captain as hostage.
American skipper's bid to escape pirates thwarted; ransom sought
NAIROBI, Kenya - An American skipper held hostage by pirates tried to swim to freedom Friday but was recaptured seconds later when the bandits opened fire within view of a U.S. destroyer.
Dahabshiil CEO Gives LSE Lecture on Value of Remittances
LONDON, January 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Abdirashid Duale, CEO of Dahabshiil, addressed an audience at the London School of Economics on the challenges and opportunities of delivering financial services to developing countries.
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The event, 'Delivering Money in Difficult Places', was organised by the Microfinance Club UK - an independent organisation that promotes best practice in the delivery of microfinance to poor communities around the world. It was held in collaboration with the London School of Economics Development Studies Institute (DESTIN), and chaired by Tom Sanderson, CEO of Five Talents - a microfinance charity that provides loans and training funds to ...
