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Driving down Main Street, Noel seems like any other small town in Southwest Missouri. There are a few diners, the bank, a grocery store. But there’s also a Mosque. Siyad Ahmed arrived in Noel in November of 2008. He said there were only seven other Muslim refugees from Somalia in the small town at the…

Mwingi East district county commissioner Jacob Ruto has cautioned residents in Sosoma and other areas near Kitui to stop selling their pasture to Somali herders. Speaking yesterday at the burial of a victim of Garissa University attack Aquila Mulei at Mwambiu, Ruto said it is sad locals are the ones welcoming the Somalis. He said…

Washington (AFP) – US authorities on Monday announced the arrest of six Somali-American men who planned to travel to Syria to fight with the Islamic State jihadist group. “They are all from Minnesota and are all part of the same conspiracy,” US Attorney for Minnesota Andrew Luger told a press conference, adding that several of…

(Reuters) – Somali militant group al Shabaab bombed a minivan carrying staff to a United Nations office in the semi-autonomous Puntland region on Monday, killing six people including four from the global body’s children’s fund UNICEF, officials said. Images posted on social media show a blood-spattered white vehicle, its windows shattered and the roof blown…

Nairobi, Kenya – As the government moves ahead with an expensive project to build a controversial security fence on sections of Kenya’s 700 km border with Somalia to keep out terrorists, it has a bigger headache. Thousands of youths recruited six years ago to fight alongside Somali troops are now battle- hardened men in the…

MINNEAPOLIS — When Yusuf Ali hosted a dinner to launch a new Somali community nonprofit, he brought in a Hmong attorney as the keynote speaker. When Ehtaw Dwee needed advice on keeping his kids connected to their Karen heritage, he turned to a Hmong elder. And when Ali Hashi looks to stock up on fresh…

NAIROBI, April 19 (Xinhua) — Somali militant group Al-Shabaab on Saturday killed three Kenyan soldiers and wounded eight others in an ambush in southern Somalia, Kenya’s military official confirmed Sunday. Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) spokesman David Obonyo said the 11 soldiers who are part of the Africa Union mission in Somalia (AMISOM) were ambushed in…

MOMBASA: A report by the United States’ Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs published in March 2015, had indicated that Somalia’s remittance banks, or hawala which were blacklisted by Kenya after the April 2 terrorist carnage in Garissa were financing terrorism activities. Meanwhile the report by the US Department of State warns that…

A homeless Somali family who spent the cold and wet winter months living on a bench in Tooting have returned. The pair, who are thought to be mother and son, centred their lives around a bench outside TK Maxx in Tooting High Street until it was removed in December last year. It is believed the pair were…

Tens of thousands of East African refugees and asylum-seekers are at risk of being left behind in Yemen’s roiling violence, deprived not only of safe options for evacuation but also of a home country that might take them in, activists and U.N. officials said this week. Since pitched fighting between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and forces…

al-Shabab killed a regional lawmaker on Saturday after he had taken his wife to hospital in the capital Mogadishu, the group and officials said. Aden Haji Hussein, a legislator from the semi-autonomous Puntland region, was sprayed with bullets when he returned to his parked car outside the hospital, witnesses said. The gunmen were in a…

Lausanne–Faisal Jeylani Aweys has not seen his native Somalia since he fled 14 years ago, but he lives in hope of winning an Olympic medal for his war-torn country. And Awey’s chosen sport of taekwondo has a way of throwing up medals for countries in trouble such as Afghanistan — so why not Somalia? Aweys…

Al-Shabaab’s 2 April attack in Kenya that killed 147 people at a university in Garissa, 120km from the border with Somalia, has again cast doubt on the Kenyan government’s ability to keep its citizens safe. Three members of Crisis Group’s Horn of Africa staff consider here the implications of Al-Shabaab’s longstanding ambition to broaden its…

In Sahra Farah’s memories, Mogadishu is a city of wonders with gorgeous beaches and beautiful people. She still doesn’t accept that the place she grew up has been destroyed by years of civil war. She says that because of the war, a lot of young Somali Americans (like me) don’t have any idea of the way…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man traveled to Syria and trained alongside terrorists, then returned to the U.S. with plans to attack a military base or a prison, according to a federal indictment announced Thursday. Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, a U.S. citizen originally from Somalia, wanted to “kill three or four American soldiers execution style,”…

A former male model and disc jockey from Melbourne has become the latest Australian killed while fighting alongside the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, the London Telegraph reported Thursday. Sharky Jama, 25, a member of Melbourne’s Somali community, had been living in the ISIS stronghold of Fallujah, Iraq, but recently traveled to Syria to fight…

NAIROBI, Kenya – All four gunmen from Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab who carried out the Kenyan university massacre earlier this month were Kenyans themselves, reports said Thursday, April 16. The militants attacked the university in the northeastern town of Garissa on April 2, lining up non-Muslim students for execution and killing 148 people in what…

DAR ES SALAAM — Tanzanian security forces have arrested 10 suspected members of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab in a raid on a mosque and another was lynched by a mob, police said on Wednesday. Officials said Tanzania was on high alert for al-Shabab attacks after the group claimed an attack on a university in…

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somalia’s corruption watchdog will soon publish a report showing financial irregularities in most government ministries, the auditor general said, findings likely to strain relations with donors helping to rebuild the east African country. Western and other donors have poured billions of dollars into Somalia, funding the army’s battle against Islamist insurgents and…

London 15 April 2015 (SDN/QJ) If the United States is the colossus that bestrides the world, its command to history is simple: Stop. The problem with America’s imperative is, as distinguished Yale historian Paul Kennedy remarked in 2010, “history, unfortunately, has a habit of wandering off all on its own.” A recent diplomatic episode shows…