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Mohamed Farah used to only go to the hospital for emergencies, and he said if he was feeling ill, he would “suck it up.” Because until last week, he didn’t have health insurance. But thanks to a MNsure outreach program in Cedar-Riverside, Farah is one of about 1,000 East Africans in Minneapolis who have enrolled…
A Somali official was killed by unknown gunmen in western Mogadishu, eyewitnesses said. Militants killed Youssef Siyad, an official with Somalia’s ministry of planning and international cooperation, while on his way to work, eyewitnesses told The Anadolu Agency. Security forces arrived at the site of the incident and arrested several people as potential suspects, the…
MINNEAPOLIS — Prosecutors and civic leaders from several U.S. cities will convene at a White House summit this week to discuss ways of countering violent extremism, eager to share ideas on how to shut off terrorist-recruiting pipelines that have sent Western fighters to conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. The U.S. attorney’s offices from…
Rome (AFP) – A Somali trafficker who raped and attacked migrants he had led through the desert to Libya to make the perilous crossing to Italy has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by an Italian court, media reported. Mouhamud Elmi Muhidin, 34, was identified by several survivors of a boat wreck near the…
INNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors and civic leaders from several U.S. cities will convene at a White House summit this week to discuss ways of countering violent extremism, eager to share ideas on how to shut off terrorist recruiting pipelines that have sent Western fighters to conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. The U.S. attorney’s…
Three quarters of children of Somali origin in Norway now live in poverty, according to new figures from Statistics Norway, and numbers are on the rise. Children from Somalia have been over-represented in the poverty statistics for years, but the proportion of children living in families with persistently low income has risen during the last…
Somali migrants constitute a diaspora whose members have, through transnational mobility, created a Somali diasporic space on different continents. This mobility is not new, especially for sailors employed in sea ports of the British Empire. Small Somali communities can be found in port cities as far apart as Perth and New York. By the end…
Here’s a sobering number: Thirty-seven radio journalists have been killed worldwide in the past two years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries for reporters. Last year, three radio reporters were killed there. Somali journalist Muhyadin Ahmed Roble remembers one of them: his friend and colleague Yusuf…
Somalia has one of the highest rates of maternal death, with one in 18 women dying from complications during pregnancy or childbirth. The Mogadishu Midwifery School sets out to change this by training over 1,200 midwives to assist in birth and neonatal care. MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia is one of the worst places in the…
Many companies that send money from immigrants in the United States to friends and family in Somalia shut down this week, but the State Department doesn’t see any need for an emergency response. State spokeswoman Jen Psaki downplayed the impact that a cutoff of remittances could have on millions of Somalis who the U.N. says…
At least 15 people were killed and 20 others injured in clashes between army troops and gunmen in Somalia’s central Galguduud region, eyewitnesses have said. Gunmen affiliated with the Ahlu Sunna Waljamaa group carried out an attack on Guriel town, prompting clashes with army troops stationed in the area, witnesses told. Both sides used light…
Somali migration to Lewiston continues to be marred by an ugly and persistent pattern of white backlash and bigotry. It’s enough to make you wonder whether it was worth Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and thousands of civil rights activists risking their lives in a protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama 50 years ago….
(Bloomberg) — Islamist militant group al-Shabaab said it shot dead a Somali lawmaker in the capital, Mogadishu, hours before a scheduled vote of confidence in the new council of ministers. Gunmen in a car opened fire on Abdullahi Qayad Barre after he left his house in the city’s Hamarjajab neighborhood on Monday, police officer Ahmed…
Mogadishu, 07 February 2015 – The Interim Minister of Information, H.E. Mustafa Duhulow, today addressed the media, providing an update on the progress of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) over the last week. The Minister discussed various issues: the presentation of the new cabinet; a consultation meeting between the Federal Government and Federal States;…
A US drone strike which killed a senior al Shabaab leader in Somalia last Saturday appears to have been part of a change of tactics by the Americans since it started targeting the militant group in 2007. It was the fifth consecutive such strike against al Shabaab’s leadership, with drones now appearing to have superseded other,…
Somalis living in the U.S. send more than $200 million to Somalia each year. Sixty percent of that country’s population gets money from outside the country to help pay for expenses like food and housing. But as of Friday, money transfers from Washington state to Somalia are shutting down. The heart of Seattle’s Somali community…
Mogadishu, 6th February 2015 – The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) welcomes the death of al-Shabaab’s Chief of External Operations with responsibility for intelligence and security planning, Abdi Nur Mahdi, also known as Yusuf Dheeg, in an airstrike on January 31st, 2015. HE the President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has on a number of…
MOGADISHU (AA) – Somalia’s Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke on Thursday unveiled a 40-strong cabinet lineup. In a press conference in Mogadishu, Sharmarke said the new cabinet would include 26 ministers and deputy ministers as well as 14 state ministers. The new government, which featured many new faces, also included a new ministry for women….
MINNEAPOLIS — A Somali-American who traveled by bus from Minneapolis to New York City with three other men and then tried to board a flight for the Middle East was charged Thursday in St. Paul with lying to the FBI during a terrorism investigation. Hamza Ahmed was arrested Thursday morning in the Twin Cities by…
MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) -There’s less than two weeks to go for all of us to have some form of health insurance, or be penalized by the government. That means there’s a last minute push in communities like Minneapolis’s Cedar Riverside Neighborhood to sign people up. Every immigrant community has its own unique barriers, but in the…