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A country like Somalia where the governance is not effective, dismissal of officials is an easy as a hungry cat kills a rat. Mogadishu constitutes the capital city of Somalia. It has been experiencing intense hardships such wars, disasters and droughts, hosting much number of IDPs and fragile administrations that are replaced within short terms…
MOGADISHU: A senior Al-Shabab commander and about 20 of his followers have pledged allegiance to ISIS, the first move of its kind to emerge in the Somali militant group. There was no immediate reaction from Al-Shabab’s overall leadership, which aligned itself in 2012 to Al-Qaeda, a group that has declared ISIS leader illegitimate. Experts have…
Turkey is an “important partner” for peace and development in Africa, Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh said Saturday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh calls Turkey ‘important partner’ for African peace, development In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Guelleh condemned last week’s terrorist attack on a peace rally in Turkish capital…
JEDDAH: About 2,292 or 31.48 percent of this year’s Somali Hajis have reportedly refused to return home, citing the poor security and economic situation in their country. This is according to the Tawafa Establishment for Pilgrims from Arab States, which stated that this was out of 7,280 pilgrims from Somalia, a local daily reported on…
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists are urging Somalia’s al-Shabab rebels to join them in pledging allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State group, and thus abandon al-Qaida. Al-Qaida and Islamic State are rivals for jihadi recruits and the video posted on Twitter on Wednesday tells Shabab fighters that uniting “is of…
ST. CLOUD – In the first of several tours to learn more about what the state can do to reduce racial disparities, Gov. Mark Dayton caught an earful. At a community forum, residents of the St. Cloud region peppered him with questions — and suggestions — on what his administration can do to address racial…
A secret MI6 document obtained by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit raises serious questions about the British government’s actions before and after the kidnapping of Judith Tebbutt and the killing of her husband, David. The couple was seized on September 11, 2011, during a brazen assault on a Kenyan luxury resort in Lamu, near the Somali…
A major push is underway to improve quality at Somali-American day cares and child-care centers, which have mu Farhia Egal ventured into the business of child care tentatively. In the basement of her Richfield home, she cycled through a meager arsenal of toys with her two children and another Somali-American family’s kids. The prospect of…
Immigration minister Peter Dutton has hinted the government may help a Somali refugee and alleged Nauru rape victim receive medical treatment in Australia. The refugee, ‘Abyan’ is seeking an abortion after she was allegedly sexually assaulted on Nauru where terminations are illegal. The 23-year-old is reportedly about 11 weeks pregnant and her case, which lawyers…
The plan runs the gamut: Nudging Somali-speaking teens into taking leadership roles at school; ensuring their culture and faith are part of their courses; training their teachers; reaching out to their parents. And over an eight-year period, those efforts have paid off: 80 per cent of Somali teens now earn high school diplomas, a jump…
Civil rights groups called Thursday for vigilance in the face of planned rallies Friday and Saturday at mosques in Dearborn and other USA cities by anti-Muslim demonstrators, saying that rhetoric on the presidential campaign trail is stirring up prejudice. “Masjid Muhammad was one of those that were identified”. In May, when Ritzheimer staged a heavily…
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns the closure of the London based Somali language Television office in Mogadishu and the arrest of the its staff on Friday October 2, 2015 by the National Security and Intelligence Agency (NISA). Universal TV East Africa Director, Abdullahi Hersi and the producer of the widely viewed Doodwadaag…
The international and geopolitical dimensions of the ongoing Somali crisis are all too often given short shrift by policymakers and outside observers alike. In the global public consciousness, the various internal factors that contribute to instability in the Republic of Somalia — be they the baleful legacy of colonialism, the ravages of internecine conflict, regional…
Physician assistant Abdullahi Hussein, a veteran medical professional who has worked at the Mayo Clinic and in the Cedar-Riverside area, opened his own walk-in clinic last month at 47th and Hiawatha avenues. Hussein, 32, hails from a family of traders and shopkeepers and is one of only two licensed Somali-American physician assistants in the Twin…
LEWISTON, Maine (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — Many asylum-seekers fleeing desperate circumstances in the Mideast and Africa are ending up in, of all places, Lewiston, Maine. “Since mostly of the Somalis have a large families, so they were looking [for] a safe place,” Somali immigrant Said Mohamud told Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Sharyl Attkisson, host of the…
Finland has in recent weeks experienced a growing influx of asylum seekers coming over the land border at Tornio, near the Arctic Circle, after a long journey through Sweden. Finland’s guidelines for granting people asylum may “be made stricter” after the the review if it concludes that there has been an improvement in the security…
MOGADISHU, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) — The ancient Arab market in Mogadishu, Hamarweyne, is bustling with activities as city residents flock there on Saturday afternoon for all manner of goods. Made-in-China brands, which stand out in this market are dotting every corner of the market, signaling changing times in Somalia as the country looks to the…
At least 717 people have been killed in a stampede at the annual Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia’s civil defence directorate said, as the death toll continued to rise. The directorate said at least 863 other pilgrims were injured in Thursday’s stampede, which took place in Mina, on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca….
HOW do you hold an election without registering voters? That is the question confronting Somali politicians—as well as hordes of diplomats, NGOs and other international hangers-on—trying to create a functional government in Somalia, a country of 10m people which has been effectively stateless since the fall of its military government in 1991. Somalia has been…
Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of northeastern Somalia, will conduct a survey of its offshore region to search for oil as the country prepares a licensing round for exploration, the head of the Puntland Petroleum and Minerals Agency said. The government awarded a contract this month toION Geophysical Corp., based in Houston, Texas, to carry out…