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Nairobi (AFP) – Over 38,000 Somali children are at “high risk” from dying from starvation despite hunger levels improving by almost a third across the war-torn nation, UN experts said Thursday. The grim assessment, based on the latest data collected by the UN, comes just over three years since intense drought and war sparked famine…
Can we take a moment to appreciate just how exotic this model looks. Somalian model Muna Mahamed is ever-so-chic and model-esque in her feature for Xoxo Magazine. In the editorial, she is photographed by Stella Schwendner in Istanbul and is seen wearing tropical prints, pastel hues, sheer shimmery dresses, artistic cut outs and more. We absolutely…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI said on Thursday it added a former Washington, D.C.-area taxi driver, Liban Haji Mohamed, to its list of “Most Wanted Terrorists” and offered a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to his arrest and conviction. The agency said Mohamed, a Somalia-born naturalized U.S. citizen, was wanted for allegedly…
A terror chief turned supergrass is ready to give up White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite. Special forces are preparing for a mission to seize the British fugitive “within days”, sources close to the investigation say. Surrendered al-Shabaab commander Zakariye Ismail Hersi told investigators the wanted mum-of-four is being guarded by an elite suicide squad in the…
MOGADISHU, (Xinhua) — More than 150 Somali lawmakers have issued fresh threats to reject a cabinet list for the second time if the nominees included former ministers. The legislators warned Prime Minister Omar Sharmarke, saying they will not approve any new government which has the president’s key allies in the previous government. “We are hereby…
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s prime minister unveiled his new Cabinet Tuesday, weeks after he withdrew his initial line-up following opposition by the parliament. Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke appointed a 20-member Cabinet, mostly political newcomers, downsizing the number from the 26-member body that was dissolved earlier this month. Somalia’s president appointed Sharmarke after the parliament…
A Minnesota man accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group will be released to a halfway house while his case is pending, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Abdullahi Yusuf, 18, will have limited hours outside the halfway house and will be monitored, Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis said….
NACOGDOCHES COUNTY, TX (KTRE) – Nacogdoches, Center, and Lufkin are home to about 150 Somalis refugees. Some have lived here for over five years, learned English, and even obtained their US citizenships. Others are struggling to learn American ways. Somalis are seen in and around Nacogdoches. The women are recognized by their brightly colored native…
The Minneapolis Police Department’s work forging deep ties among local Somali immigrants is gaining national recognition as officers help replicate their efforts in other cities. For the past few years, officer Abdiwahab Ali and Sgt. Mohamed Abdullahi have helped Toronto authorities work with Somalis and assist troubled youths. Only a few years ago, Ali says,…
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Under tight security Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Sunday launched development projects sponsored by his government including an airport terminal in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Hundreds of soldiers were deployed across Mogadishu where Somali Islamist extremists have carried out terror attacks targeting Turkish interests. Erdogan, on his second visit to Somalia,…
Introduction Summary Why Somaliland still unrecognised by any other state? What is the problem tree? Is it Somaliland politicians, or other UN member state countries? And finally is it legal or political issue what protects Somaliland from its deserved recognition? In this commentary I would like to discover some ripostes to the above mentioned questions….
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) — Turkey’s international development body — will officially open Sunday a training and research hospital in Somalia’s capital. According to the Turkish Health Ministry, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu will attend the official opening of the 200-bed Mogadishu Somalia-Turkey Training and Research Hospital on Sunday. The two countries signed…
New York, Jan 23 (IBNS) The United Nations and its international partners on Thursday voiced concern over delays in the resolution of Somalia’s long-standing political crisis and in the implementation of a stability-building mechanism as they called on the Horn of Africa nation’s President, Prime Minister and Federal Parliament ‘to unite for the greater good…
NONFICTION: A searing account of a young Somali man who fled Mogadishu for South Africa, where he encounters opportunity and violence. “Perversely, xenophobia is a product of citizenship, the claiming of a new birthright. Finally, we belong here, and that means that you do not.” This is Jonny Steinberg’s comment on a harrowing episode in…
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has criticized a December decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that France should compensate convicted Somali pirates for trial delays. “These criminals have been responsible for taking hostage thousands of seafarers who were subjected to unprovoked violence and sometimes torture,” a spokesperson for the IMB said in…
The leader of Somali’s autonomous Somaliland region, Ahmed Muhammed Silanyo, has hailed Turkish schools for their efforts to bring up a bright, new generation in the Somalia, calling on Turkish entrepreneurs to open more schools in the country. Turkish schools in Somalia have shown great success. Hailing the success of Turkish schools in Somaliland, Silanyo…
Mogadishu, 24 January 2015 – The 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 continuing fight against corruption; the signing of the Convention of the Rights of Children; celebrations to…
Before graduating from Ohio State in the spring, Abdilahi Hassan made himself a promise: For the first time, he would visit Somalia, his family’s homeland, and when he came back, he would start his own business. The 26-year-old made good on both vows. Over the summer, he spent a little more than a month in…
My mother came to America for one reason and one reason only. The “American Dream.” What she didn’t know was the land we held onto might be sacrificed for that dream. She came from Somalia, which was going through a civil war at the time. My mom fled to Europe in 1992 while pregnant with…
The Calgary Police Service says recruiting officers from the city’s Somali-Canadian community is a high priority for the force. Since the beginning of 2015, two members of the Somali-Canadian community were killed by violence and religious leaders in the community say the sooner they have a larger representation on the force, the better. “It’s very…