Issa Mansaray

Issa Mansaray is a former Associate Editor for MintPress. Mansaray has traveled through Africa, Europe, and the U.S reporting on press freedom, politics, and human rights violations for over 15 years. Mansaray has also worked as a reporter, correspondent, and contributed to various national and international media outlets, including BBC Network Africa, New African Magazine, and The WorldPaper.

What’s Drawing Somali-American Teens To Foreign Militant Groups?

Young members of the Somali-American community are disappearing in growing numbers, and the FBI is now investigating whether they’ve gone to fight in foreign wars.

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B. Todd Jones

MINNEAPOLIS -- Abdi Mohamed Nur, a 20-year-old Somali-American, reportedly left his family in Minnesota to travel to Syria to join and fight alongside the Islamic State (formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS) last month. Earlier this month, the FBI’s office in Minneapolis said Nur and about 15 other people from Minnesota

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America’s Re-Colonization of Africa: The US Military’s War Of Expansion

Many African nations, struggling to combat terrorism, invite the US military to assist, but they be inviting in more than they bargained for.

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AFRICOM | Kenya

Under the cover of the United States Africa Command, or AFRICOM, the United States has stepped up its military presence in Africa. So, when more than 250 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno state, were kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked Boko Haram in April, the U.S. took it as an opportunity to further strengthen its military and intelligence presence in

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Policing Assange Costs UK Taxpayers $8 million

Since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London in 2012, the British government has spent $8 million on keeping a close watch on him.

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By Issa Mansaray

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up inside the Embassy of Ecuador in London since 2012. The British government has been keeping close tabs on the whistleblower, spending a whopping $16,000 a day on security measures. In December 2010, Assange was arrested in the United Kingdom on a European Union-wide warrant issued by Sweden,

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In Algeria, A President That Won’t Go Away

Algeria’s incumbent president swept Thursday’s election, taking almost 82 percent of the vote in a country that doesn’t expect any change to come at the hands of the fourth-term president.

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Algreria Presidential Elections

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has secured a fourth term with 81.53 percent of votes, his Interior Minister Tayeb Belaiz announced on Friday. With 12.18 percent of the votes, rival Ali Benflis came in a far second, but he has refused to recognize the Bouteflika’s reelection. When Bouteflika announced last month that he was running for a

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Public Protector: President Zuma Is “Secure In Comfort”

While South Africans languish in poverty and the nation’s young people roam the streets unemployed, the country’s president has spent $23 million renovating his home.

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In a report covering over 400 pages, South Africa’s Public Protector Thuli Madonsela accused President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma of “unethical” conduct. The report alleged that he used millions of taxpayer dollars to carry out lavish renovations at his home.   Undue Benefits Madonsela claimed that the president “benefited unduly” from

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