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A car bomb has exploded in the Somali capital outside the gates of a hotel where Turkish delegates were preparing for the visit of their president. Three people were killed in the attack, including two security officers and a hotel employee, police told the BBC. None of the Turkish contingent at the SYL Hotel, located…
It started with a nyaope addict at the Waka Waka. “Shit happened here,” repeats Sphamandla Zwane, 21, manning a fruit stall across from the store in Snake Park. On Monday, 17:00, an 18-year-old boy leaned against the store’s outside wall. He’s a nyaope addict, everyone says, and many claim he regularly stole from the store….
The United Nations today applauded Somalia’s ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) – a move which was praised as being an “important step” towards protecting and promoting the rights of all children in the war-torn nation and an explicit commitment towards improving the lives of its youngest citizens. “By ratifying…
Three organizations claiming to do vital relief work on behalf of the United Nations in ravaged Somalia diverted millions of dollars intended for food, water, medicine, and other relief services for thousands of the most desperately suffering people in the world, according to confidential U.N. reports obtained by Fox News. Some of the money may…
Mogadishu, Jan 20 (Prensa Latina) Heavy armed clashes between two rival clans in villages near Deefow, in the Somali province of Hiiraan, caused 40 deaths and a considerable number of wounded, authorities reported today. The clashes were classified as severe by sources, after stating that also many houses were burned. Somalia lives in a situation…
Somali university students have poured into the streets in the capital, Mogadishu, to join global Muslim rallies against a sacrilegious cartoon published by French weekly Charlie Hebdo depicting the Prophet Mohammad. The protest rally was held on Saturday with demonstrators chanting slogans and holding placards that read “I am a Muslim, and I love my…
Almost every major terrorist attack on Western soil in the past fifteen years has been committed by people who were already known to law enforcement. One of the gunmen in the attack on Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, had been sent to prison for recruiting jihadist fighters. The other had reportedly studied in Yemen with Umar…
MOGADISHU, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) — Somali Parliament on Saturday approved a two-week extension period requested by Somalia’s Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke to form an inclusive government. Sharmarke dissolved his proposed list of cabinet ministers barely hours after it was set to face a confidence vote by the country’s top lawmaking body. Angry lawmakers…
A roadside explosion killed three Somali government officials on Monday in Afgooye, about 30 km southwest of capital Mogadishu. Lower Shabelle Governor Abdulkadir Mohamed Nor Sidi told Xinhua by phone that the three– a district commissioner, his secretary and guard were killed while heading to the Afgoye town. “The car they were driving exploded when…
At Friday prayers, two men arrive at Khalid Bin Al-Walid Mosque to worship. The Somali-Canadian mosque is not where they regularly pray, but they are welcomed as family. The men are strangers not only to the mosque, but to Toronto. They’re police officers from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mohamed Abdullahi and Abdiwahab Ali are the first Somali…
A leader of Edmonton’s Somali community is urging the public to resist negatively stereotyping Somali-Canadians. Jibril Ibrahim, president of the Somali Canadian Cultural Society of Edmonton, said his community is being unfairly singled out after three cousins from Edmonton were reported earlier this week to have died fighting in Syria for ISIS. He said the…
EDMONTON — An Edmonton mother is mourning the loss of her son, believed to have died in Syria. The mother didn’t confirm reports that Mahad Hirsi, 20, was killed along with his two cousins fighting for ISIS. She hasn’t said why he was in Syria. City police say the three men were on their radar as…
(Reuters) – Somalia’s new prime minister was on Saturday given two more weeks to present a new cabinet to parliament after lawmakers rejected his first list, extending a period of drift in government that donors say is hurting recovery efforts. Lawmakers had approved the appointment of Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke in December, the…
Amina Ahmed remembers well leaving Kenya for the U.S. in 2005. “That was one of the hardest things, leaving my dad behind. … I still have that picture of walking through the gate. … I was thinking, ‘This is the last time I’m going to see him, ever,’ ” said Ahmed, a 24-year-old Somali woman….
Mogadishu, 17 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: progress in the education sector; the implementation of development projects; the resettlement of refugees; the surrender of…
TORONTO – What a surprise — another justice of the peace accused of behaving badly — and this time the disturbing allegations include mistreatment of the mentally ill and a bias against Somali-Canadians and defendants who need interpreters in his court. Toronto JP Robert E. Whittaker has been suspended from his duties pending a disciplinary…
Edmonton police say three Canadian men who have reportedly died overseas fighting for the Islamic State were known to law enforcement agencies. In a press conference Thursday, Deputy Chief Brian Simpson responded to a report that three Somali-Canadian men in their 20s had died in Syria fighting with the militant group. Simpson said Edmonton police…
The recent killing of 36 people in a mine in Mandera in north-eastern Kenya is only the latest in a series of terrorist acts meted out by al-Shabaab. Since the notorious Westgate attack in Nairobi in September 2013, al-Shabaab has unleashed a wave of atrocities in Kenya, particularly in the north-east and coastal regions. Exploiting…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian radio station says a court has sentenced two British nationals and a Somali man to between four and seven years imprisonment for terrorism related charges. Fana Broadcasting Corporate, a state affiliated media house, reported Thursday the three were charged with attempting to establish an Islamic state in Ethiopia and…
At least one Kenyan soldier and five al-Shabab militants have been killed in a fierce fighting close to the Somalia border, officials say. The violent clashes took place in Kenya’s coastal Lamu district on Wednesday, army spokesman, David Obonyo, said in a statement. The fighting started after the troops came under attack by the militants…