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A decision by a U.S. bank to stop doing business with companies that transfer money from Somalis living in the United States to families back home could have a “catastrophic” impact on the fragile Horn of Africa country, development groups said. The lack of a formal banking system in Somalia is one of the legacies…
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A U.S. missile strike launched in Somalia last week killed Islamist group al Shabaab’s mastermind behind attacks at home and abroad, the Somali government said on Wednesday. The United States said on Tuesday it had launched the drone strike to kill Yusef Dheeq, al Shabaab’s chief of external operations and planning for…
Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the United States. The 2013 American Community Survey estimates the total number of immigrants from the East African country living in the North Star State at over 40,000. Food is one way we can connect with our Somali neighbors in a way that hurdles any language…
The Turkish Parliament has approved a government-sponsored motion to extend the presence of the Turkish Naval Forces in the Gulf of Aden, located in the Arabian Sea, as well as the coastal waters off Somalia for one year. The motion, first approved in 2009, extends for another year the Turkish Naval Forces’ mandate to participate…
Two national Muslim organizations say they are troubled that Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week drew a link between radicalization and mosques. Harper made the remark last Friday when he was answering a question about the Canadian government’s new anti-terrorism legislation. The measures unveiled in Bill C-51 include criminalizing advocacy for or promotion of a terrorist act. Another measure…
NAIROBI, KENYA—A new report says Somali women and girls from minority clans are more vulnerable to sexual violence due to poverty, marginalization and discriminatory attitudes. The perpetrators include members of dominant clans, militias and security forces, and even African Union soldiers. A new report, titled “No One Cries for Them,” highlights challenges faced by Somalia’s…
Former Al-Shabaab commander Zakariye Ismail Hersi, who surrendered to Somali military forces last month, has come out with what he claims is information regarding the whereabouts of Samantha Lewthwaite, the infamous “White Widow.” Hersi claims that Lewthwaite, a key regional commander in Al-Shabaab, is hiding out in the Somali town of Ras Kamboni on the Kenyan…
Somali traders have been hit hard by the recent xenophobic looting. Fleeing Soweto and other areas, many have landed in Mayfair, Johannesburg. GREG NICOLSON visits Princess Street, meeting those who fled war for a better life and who have now fled their places of refuge. They have no idea of what life holds next. …
Controversy over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed hit home in Seattle recently, culminating in a protest outside of southend refugee service provider on Friday. A group of Somali Americans gathered outside the Refugee Women’s Alliance (ReWA) on Martin Luther King, Jr. Way to demand the resignation of a teacher who showed the cartoons to her teenage students…
The Somlai Region is going to open a second Micro Finance Institution (MFI) from which is going to extend loans from 10pc to 20pc. This will be the second in the region. Rays MFI received approval from the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) on January 26, 2015, which will enable it to commence operations. This…
MOGADISHU (AA) – A top leader of the Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab movement and some movement members were killed on Saturday in a strike believed to be carried out by a U.S. drone, a Somali official has said. Ahmed Adan said the strike targeted a convoy of Al-Shabaab top leaders near Dinsoor, a town in the southwestern…
Let’s embrace our fellow Africans because we can learn a thing or two from them, writes Victor Kgomoeswana. Johannesburg – Do you know what supermodel Iman Abdulmajid, musician K’naan, who gave us the World Cup 2010 theme song, Waving Flag, author, writer and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Olympic double-gold medallist runner Mo Farah have…
Just hours after a terrorist group’s attack on a satirical newspaper in Paris last month, nine future teachers sat with a group of Somali community elders in Minneapolis discussing the relationship between Islam and terrorism. As the elders expressed their anger and frustration that their religion had again been used to justify violence and shared…
21 January,2015: Puntland authorities briefly arrested Hussein Yasin, Editor of Shacabkamedia website in the administration’s capital in Garowe. Puntland authorities did not comment the reasons behind the arrest, but many journalists believe he was arrested for his critical reporting against the administration. 17 January,2015: Unknown assailants hurled two hand grenades to the premises of Radio…
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are appealing for witnesses after they arrested a 32-year old Somalian man on suspicion of murder in Belfast yesterday. Although little is presently known of the victim, 29 year old Pakistani national Mohsin Bhatti, his surname is common among Sikh and Hindi families in the Pakistani borders and Punjab…
EAU CLAIRE — Just hours after a terrorist group’s attack on a satirical newspaper in Paris earlier this month, nine future teachers sat with a group of Somali community elders in Minneapolis discussing the relationship between Islam and terrorism. Mai Lee Kha of Hatley was among the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire education majors participating in…
THE LAST couple of weeks have bad been ones for African protesters – or good ones, depending on how you want to look at it. It began with the ugly teargassing of children at a public primary school in Nairobi, who were protesting the grabbing of their playground by a “private developer”. In scenes reminiscent of…
An FBI community outreach program in Seattle received orders to gather intelligence on the Somali community, according to reports released this week by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and the Star-Tribune in Minneapolis. Seattle was one of six cities targeted in a 2009 plan to use the FBI’s community outreach programs to gather intelligence on…
Do you sometimes check yourself that you are literally a fuel-powered machine? Why traditional hydrocarbon products often affect our lives so extensively? What are the conspiracy theories on the global oil plunge? Why do we worry about a potential global depression? No doubt at all, that we are all on board a west-controlled economic vehicle…
Civil-liberties and Muslim community groups are scrutinizing the intent of a federal anti-terrorism program that will launch next month in Minnesota. The Department of Justice chose the Twin Cities, Boston and Los Angeles to create pilot programs to prevent people from becoming radicalized into joining terrorist groups abroad. But some Muslims worry that the effort…