Tag: News in English

  Jibouti — Djibouti’s security forces arrested at least 32 people including an opposition official Wesnesday on charges on organizing a religious ceremony raided by security forces last week in which at least 19 people were killed, prosecutor announced  Thursday. Djibouti’s government earlier said that the traditional religious gathering in Buldhoqo, a village near the…

The United States condemns recent acts of violence in the capital of Djibouti and calls for the immediate release of opposition leaders who have been detained. We express our condolences to all those affected by the tragic deaths and injuries caused by these attacks. We urge the Government of Djibouti to respect its citizens’ rights…

57-year-old Billy Ray Hackler led Grand Forks Police on a chase around 1:15 am Saturday. While firefighters knocked down the flames within minutes, the damage was estimated at $90,000. Police suspect Gust of arson in the attack last week on Juba Coffee House. The fire occurred days after the restaurant’s Somali-American owners found it vandalized…

Geneva (AFP) – Unidentified gunmen shot dead an employee of the UN refugee agency in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday, in an attack that also left another person dead, a UN statement said. “It is with great sadness that UNHCR has learned of the killing of one of our colleagues, Amina Noor Mohamed, this afternoon…

HARGEISA — The police of the breakaway state of Somaliland has on Saturday arrested poet Abdiwahid Gamadiid who is well known for supporting the Islamist groups after he come up with a new motivating poem in which he was supporting the attack in Paris last month. Poet Gamadiid has previously sang a poem in which he…

  HARGEISA—– The President H.E. Ahmed Mohammed Mohamud has directed both the ministry of interior and the National Electoral Commission to expressly embark on both the registration of persons and the registration of the electorate. At the same time the President advised both institutions to embark on the task jointly such that time may be saved…

An armed member of the militant group Shabab attends a rally on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, in 2012. (Associated Press) By surrendering to authorities, two Americans associated with Somali militant group the  Shabab have turned a spotlight on a group weakened and deeply divided as it battles defections to its rival Islamic State. Mohammed Abdullahi Hassan, a…

BERBERA—- First Somaliland Fish Expo commences in the port town of Berbera on Monday. Somaliland’s vice president Hon. Abdirahman Saylici, the ministry of fishery officials, fish firms were in attendance. A ministerial level delegation led by the commerce minister of Somali regional administration has joined the attendees delegates. The fish expo gives Somaliland fish industry to showcase…

NAIROBI—– The notorious war criminal General Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan—a former Somali Army General is the most wanted man  as he committed the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Somaliland. Mr. Mohamed Said Hersi Morgan who is in Kenya has Monday called on Somaliland to stop meddling the internal affairs of…

Garowe,29Nov,2015(QJ/SDN)-The semi-autonomous northern Somalia region of Puntland released a television journalist who was arrested after grilled the region’s information minster over wide-ranging political controversies, colleagues said on Sunday. Jama Deperani, a presenter with the London-based Somali Channel Television was released Sunday after a public outcry by journalists’ watchdogs and the United Nations, according to Faysal…

The 2012 initiated talks and their demise 1.It was recognised at the (international) June 2012 London Conference that there was a ‘need for the international community to support any dialogue between Somaliland’ and the then Somalia government ‘or its replacement may agree to establish in order to clarify their future relations’ . Having waited for…

  In the West, people tend not to call their friends and colleagues nicknames that pick on negative physical traits. But in Somalia, people have a love of such nicknames. When I got my ID badge for the president’s office in Mogadishu the other day, I knew I had finally been accepted. It had taken…

Burao,28Nov,2015(QJ/SDN) – Security forces have arrested Mr. Khadar Abdirisak, a stringer for Hadhwanaagnews online newspaper who is based in Burao today. The mayor of Burao is reported to have authorized the detention of the reporter who was not happy with series of scathingly articles that was published. Mr. Khadar was interrogated by Criminal Investigation Department…

Hargeisa – Somaliland’s Justice and Welfare Party (UCID) is in disarray after former ruling party members have showed off interest in key posts in the opposition ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections in early 2017. Former State Minister for Presidency, Hirsi Ali Haji Hassan is weighing in on run for presidency under UCID in the…

Wajale – BBC journalist, Mary Harper has visited the grave of the late Ahmed Hasan Awke . Ms. Mary Harper has traveled to Somaliland to set an eye on the tomb of late Awke where the two worked together for the British Broadcasting Corporation. The main objective behind Mary Harper touring the tomb of the demiase of Awke…

Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah on Wednesday discussed with Somali Information minister Mohamed Abdi Hayir ways of strengthening media, cultural and tourism’s bilateral cooperation and exchange of experience between the two countries. During the meeting, Sheikh Salman confirmed Kuwait’s support for the Somali information-culture-tourism’s…

WAJALE-The body of the late veteran Somali journalist, Ahmed Hasan Awke who has died of natural causes in Jigjiga has arrived shortly in Wajale where he will be given a state burial. The late Ahmed dies at the age of 73. Somaliland government officails are in Wajale where the body was escorted from Jigjija by officials…

COON RAPIDS, Minn. (AP) — A woman says she feels “traumatized” and is thinking about moving out of Minnesota after another woman allegedly attacked her in a restaurant because she was speaking in a foreign language. Asma Jama tells Minnesota Public Radio News (http://bit.ly/1S7gWxE ) she was chatting with her family at a booth at…

ADADO – Security forces with a regional administration in central Somalia on Wednesday freed four Iranian sailors kidnapped by pirates last year, officials said Thursday. Troops from Galmudug administration have reportedly raided a house occupied by pirates near Adado town after tip off by residents, freeing the hostages who were chained inside a villa house….