Tag: News in English

Mo Farah has found himself embroiled in another row over his nationality after the Spaniard whose European half-marathon record he broke on Sunday called the feat a “record for Somalia”. Farah became the first British runner to break the hour-mark when recording a time of 59mins 32secs to win the Lisbon half-marathon on Sunday, taking…

Members of the St. Cloud Somali community have assembled a task force of around 15 people to meet with St. Cloud school district officials and seek a “peaceful resolution” after ethnic tensions flared at Technical High School last week. Members of the task force could meet with Superintendent Willie Jett as early as Wednesday. Abdul…

Nairobi, 23 Mar (Prensa Latina) Kenya plans to build a new road, more border crossings and barriers on its 700 km (420 mile) border with Somalia in an attempt to thwart attacks from the Islamist group al Shabaab, the interior ministry said on Monday. Kenya is under heavy pressure to improve security after numerous militant…

ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — St. Cloud school officials have met with Somali parents, community elders and students after Somali-American students walked out to protest their treatment. The meeting happened Thursday, a day after students, including 18-year-old Nasteho Dini, walked out of St. Cloud Tech High School, according to Minnesota Public Radio News (http://bit.ly/1C04YQ2 ). Dini…

ANKATO — During a typical afternoon on the impromptu soccer field in the middle of the Hilltop Lane apartment complex, 13-year-old Abdi Ali rules the field. He does his best to keep about a dozen younger kids around him focused on the game as they romp around the brown turf bordered by makeshift goals. They…

MOGADISHU Somalia (Xinhua) — Somali government has commended the United States for killing an ‘al-Shabaab’ intelligence leader last week in central Somalia, saying it will enhance partnership with the U.S. in the fight against the Al-Qaida linked group. Somali Foreign Minister Abdisalan Hadliye said the Somali government had received intelligence about the killing of Aden…

The African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) and Somalia army troops on Sunday captured the strategic island of Kudhaa in southern Somalia from Al-Shabaab militants. “Kudhaa is now under the full control of the interim Jubaland Administration soldiers and AMISOM,” Adan Mohamud, a security official with the Jubaland administration, told The Anadolu Agency by phone….

The 14 students in Abdiasis Hirsi’s writing class at Roosevelt High School in south Minneapolis haven’t lived in the United States very long. Most have been in Minnesota a few months, and some arrived a few weeks ago. Half of the students speak Somali as their first language. They’re learning English from Hirsi, a native…

Another wave of ethnic tension crashed upon St. Cloud on Wednesday, this time at Technical High School, where more than 100 students and some parents protested how school officials handle their complaints about how they are being treated. Most people were of Somali descent, and their primary issues revolve around how they are treated by…

Doha, Thursday 19 March 2015 — H.E Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke met with his Qatar counterpart H.E Abdullah Bin Nasser Khalifa al Thani in Doha today. The meeting centered on co-operation and the longstanding relationship between the two nations with the leaders agreeing on the need to forge closer ties on stabilisation, trade…

NAIROBI (Reuters) – The U.S. Embassy in Djibouti has closed its doors for three days while it reviews the security in the tiny Horn of Africa state that hosts an American military base, the embassy said in a statement posted on its website. In addition to hosting U.S. and French military bases, Djibouti also contributes…

In the modern-era, Scandinavian countries have become known for their sometimes awkward embrace of migrants from the Arab and Muslim world. But the history behind that relationship goes back far further than you might expect. Consider the case of a ring discovered in a Viking grave in Birka, a historic trading center in what is now Sweden. The…

Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh has said the war-torn horn of Africa country could build a new Capital City after two decades of fighting destroyed its current headquarter in Mogadishu. Sheikh said this at a meeting with Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the sidelines of an investors conference taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. He…

A top cleric affiliated with Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militant group has given Daesh and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, his stamp of approval. “Any emirate in the world that opposes it [Daesh] and opposes the caliphate under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is unlawful,” Sheikh Hassan Hussein Abu Salman said in an audio that has yet to be authenticated….

The United States Defense Department confirmed on Wednesday that it has killed Adan Garar, a leader of the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab, the BBC reported. The Pentagon said Garar was hit by a drone equipped with Hellfire missiles in southern Somalia last Friday. Garar was a suspect in the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi…

More than 100 Somali teens walked out of Tech High School in St. Cloud on Wednesday in a protest, as administrators kept the rest of the students on lockdown inside. The students complained about racist taunting from classmates, while holding up a poster saying, “The people united will never be divided.” In recent days, a…

Hargeisa- Though Somaliland is a new nation recovering from the civil wars which destroyed the basic infrastructures such as education institutions , justice centers ,as well as police and security centers during civil wars, the people in Somaliland took up the challenge to rebuild their country and restore the country’s peace, law and order, never the less although Somaliland…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Residents of Kenya’s Mandera County will take matters into their own hands if the government does not stop attacks by Somalia’s Islamic extremists, the county’s governor said Monday. One person was killed and three others wounded in Mandera County on Sunday in an attack by gunmen believed to be Somalia’s al-Shabab…

KDF should take over all areas along the Kenya-Somalia to ward off terror attacks, National Assembly Majority leader Aden Duale has said. Duale specified that the soldiers should man all areas from Kiunga in Lamu county to Border Point One in Mandera.   “We have never and shall never negotiate with terrorists, bandits, militants and…

The European Union capacity building initiative EUCAP Nestor has donated several 4×4 vehicles and IT and communications equipment to the Somali Coast Guard in order to enhance its maritime security capabilities off the Horn of Africa. The IT and communications equipment, 25 computers, 30 GPSs and six Nissan vehicles were handed over to the Coast…