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DJIBOUTI — A sleepy coastal nation in the Horn of Africa, Djibouti was the last French colony to achieve independence. Today, nearly four decades later, the mainly Sunni nation has become a critical part of U.S. foreign policy. With U.S. ground forces out of Yemen amid a civil war, Djibouti is a launching pad for…
(Reuters) – Al Shabaab Islamist militants shot dead a government official in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and a spokesman for the group said. Abdifatah Barre, the deputy district commissioner of Mogadishu’s Wadajir district, was shot dead in his car. “Gunmen opened fire on the car of the deputy district commissioner this morning….
If the Columbus Police Division doesn’t change its policy banning head scarves for female Muslim officers, Ismahan Isse might have a couple of options outside Ohio. The Edmonton Police Service in Alberta, Canada, has reached out to Isse, the 29-year-old Somali-American who said she dropped out of the Columbus police academy this year because she…
MOGADISHU Somalia (Xinhua) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia on Tuesday, marking the first visit of U.S. Secretary of State to the country in over 20 years. Security in Mogadishu has been tightened with roads leading to the airport sealed off. Kerry is scheduled to officially open…
Mogadishu, 03 May, 2015-The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), the Somali Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, the Relief International and Finish Foundation for Media and Development organized World Press Freedom day event, along with a a Seminar Freedom of Expression and Journalists’ Rights in State-building in Somalia in Mogadishu’s Jazeera hotel. The event,…
The best book ever written by a Minnesotan &mdash one particular of the six most crucial American novels, poet Carl Sandburg mentioned &mdash is a tragedy of immigrant life. Ole Edvart Rolvaag, whose son Karl would one day develop into Minnesota&rsquos governor, emigrated from Helgeland, Norway, to the Upper Midwest in 1896. Immediately, he succumbed,…
Borama, Somaliland — From emotionally-traumatised returned migrants, to the chief immigration commissioner to the top smugglers, one thing keeps turning up in conversation: social media. It keeps the steady flow of would-be migrants coming, they say, enticing young Somalis to risk it all – even death. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter paint the West as a…
Hibaq Gelle is desensitized to death. Last December, when the 25-year-old arrived at a women’s group meeting in west Toronto, the others told her the news: Musa Yusuf had been found stabbed to death in his apartment. His 22-year-old nephew was later charged with second-degree murder. Gelle says she didn’t get upset or angry. “I…
Some of Minnesota’s largest mosques and Muslim community organizations have come out strongly against a federal pilot program intended to prevent radicalization in the Somali-American community. Nearly 50 Muslim organizations, in a statement released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Minnesota, said they are opposing the program because it combines “policing and counter-terrorism efforts…
Mass grave have been reported to have been discovered in North Eastern Kenya border town of Wajir. According to local Kenyan newspaper, The Star at least 11 bodies were found in a shallow grave in Lanbiib on the outskirts of Wajir town. Two dismembered heads were found in Yahud dam, two kilometers east of Wajir….
Mogadishu, May 1, 2015-The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns the brutal murder against a Somali journalist and his wife in the town of Baidoa, 270km Southwest of Mogadishu on early of Thursday morning on 30 April, 2015, becoming the first journalist to be slain in Somalia this year. Unknown gunmen attacked the house…
Suspected members of the Islamist group al-Shabaab have killed a Somali journalist and his wife, police said on Thursday. Daud Ali Omar, 35, who worked for an independent radio station in the southern-central city of Baidoa, and his wife, were shot dead while sleeping by gunmen who entered their home on Wednesday night, local police…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Somali organization has signed an agreement to purchase a 24,000-square-foot-building for a future Somali community center in Minneapolis. The Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota announced the purchase agreement for the new center Tuesday. Executive Director Mohamud Noor says the center will be a “one-stop-shop” for his group and others to…
NAIROBI, April 29 (Xinhua) — The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Somalia exported a record of 5 million livestock to markets in the Gulf of Arabia in 2014 buoyed by heavy investments in animal disease prevention. The export data, collected by the FAO-managed Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) and received in…
Police officers from Somali and other ethnic communities are needed in Finland, believes Jari Taponen, the head of crime prevention at the Helsinki Police Department, after a visit to Minnesota, the United States. “Minnesota has the world’s largest Somali community living in a diaspora. Crime there decreased by 30 per cent after the community got…
Ismahan Isse has wanted to be a police officer for years. She prepared herself by earning an associate degree in criminal justice and entered the Columbus police academy in December. She lasted until March 16. Isse, 29, is a Somali-American and a Muslim. The Police Division does not allow officers to wear head scarves and…
When most people think of the country Somalia, they associate it with the only areas national media cover, pirates, extremist terrorism, famine and war. A self declared independent state of this country named Somaliland seemed to be different from the rest, the people were happy, it was safe to travel too and they seek peace…
Mogadishu: Somalia’s Al Shabab militants are divided over whether to maintain their allegiance to Al Qaida or shift to Daesh, according to militant and security sources, analysts and clan elders. The division comes at a time when Daesh in Iraq and Syria has become the militant franchise of choice, attracting fighters from abroad and other…
Minnesota authorities have gone deep in search of taxpayer funds to lavish on Somali immigrants in the name of “outreach.” Someone should probably reach out to the supporters of the local Minnesota based Somalis recently charged with seeking to depart these parts in order to join ISIS, but I wonder if we have a government…
ON April 24, 2015 Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni released an article on the fortunes and misfortunes of the Somalia extremist group Al-Shabaab: THE most atrocious, criminal, cowardly and monstrous attacks by Al-Shabaab against soft and innocent targets such as shoppers in Nairobi’s Westgate Mall in September 2013; young students in northeast Kenya’s Garissa University on April 2…