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A Peshmerga commander says they have killed a number of militants of African origin in clashes around Sinjar, northern Iraq. Commander Bahram Doski told BasNews from the Sinjar frontlines that they have been involved in fierce fighting in recent days and have killed scores of foreign Islamic State fighters in the area. “In recent days…
Yusuf Mohamed Hasan, editor-in-chief of Somaliland Sun website, went missing in 24th December 2014 at Jigjiga, Ethiopia, and was later confirmed detained, according to Somaliland Sun journalist. Yusuf visited Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, for private reasons, journalist told Human Rights Centre. He was arrested in his way back to Somaliland through Jigjiga, the…
U.S. government maritime authorities have advised mariners in Somalia to avoid the port of Mogadishu and to remain at least 200 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. “U.S. citizens considering travel by sea near the Horn of Africa, the Gulf of Guinea, or in the southern Red Sea should exercise extreme caution, as there…
Somaliland has become a bastion of democracy and stability compared with Mogadishu and other areas in the war-torn south, writes Christopher Adams. A street scene in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Photo / Christopher Adams From the back seat it appears as if the bus has been taken over by multicoloured ghosts. The clothing worn by the…
More than 100 Somali lawmakers on Tuesday vowed to block the nomination of a new cabinet in Parliament. The members of parliament said in Mogadishu they will not pass a motion to approve the newly unveiled council of ministers, noting that the prime minister included ministers in the former cabinet is against their will. Abdi…
United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger said: “I look forward to participating in the White House Summit on February 18with Twin Cities law enforcement and community leaders and stakeholders, my colleagues from the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in Boston and Los Angeles, and CVE leaders from around the world. Since I began working with the Somali…
Minneapolis is looking at making commemorative name changes to three streets in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood to reflect its Somali character. The issue was before the planning commission Monday and would need city council approval. The mailing addresses would not change; sign posts would have two street signs. If approved, Fourth Street between Cedar Avenue and…
Calgary’s police chief says his force is committed to working together with the city’s Somali-Canadian residents to curb the violence among young men in the community. “We know that there’s young men, mostly young men, who don’t feel they’re part of the community,” said Chief Rick Hanson, speaking to a crowd of around 75 at the Abu Bakr…
January 10, 2015: During 2014 AU peacekeepers and Somali troops continued pushing al Shabaab out of territory it had controlled since their formation in 2006. In the last two years al Shabaab has lost control of 85 percent of the area it controlled at its peak in 2012. There are now two areas where al…
THIS may be a short state election campaign, but for LNP candidate Leila Abukar, it has been a long and harrowing journey. As a 12-year-old, she fled the Somali capital of Mogadishu where militia murdered her father and brother during the bloody civil war. Her mother, seeing the horror from their home, silently bundled Leila…
Halima Ibrahim’s adult children pleaded with her not to go back to Somalia. Friends attending the Minneapolis memorial for her husband, a civil engineer gunned down in Mogadishu last November, assumed she’d stay in Minnesota. But Ibrahim is flying to Mogadishu this week, with new resolve to pitch in for her war-torn country’s comeback. In…
MOGADISHU, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — An east African bloc on Saturday held a regional conference in Somalia and pledged to mobilize resources to enhance political stability in the Horn of Africa nation. Foreign ministers from the regional bloc, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), pledged to boost reconciliation efforts by uniting the warring factions in Somalia….
Mogadishu, 10 January 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: IGAD Ministerial Meeting takes place in Mogadishu, the launch of various development projects; progress in Federalism;…
As Abdirahim Addow talks about Calgary’s first two homicide victims of 2015, he is clearly a man in pain, a palpable grief he shares with many of his fellow Somali-Canadians who call the city home. It’s not hard to understand why the killings of Abdullahi Ahmed, 26, and Murat Osman Omar, 23, would send shock waves…
Somalia’s Shebab militants, Al-Qaeda’s main affiliate in Africa, on Friday praised the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly in Paris as a “heroic” act. “They made millions of Muslims happy by taking action. Some misguided people claim that freedom of expression was attacked, but that is not the case, and the two…
A Somali youth group wants more than $4 million in state funding for workforce training, arts initiatives and after-school programs to fight international terrorist recruitment across Minnesota. Mohamed Farah, executive director of the group Ka Joog, told state lawmakers on Thursday that the money — doled out over two years — would occupy at-risk Somali…
TORONTO — Two years after he was killed while attacking the Somali Supreme Court in Mogadishu, a Canadian member of the terrorist group Al Shabab resurfaced Thursday in a propaganda video released on the Internet. The video showed former Toronto resident Mahad Ali Dhore handling a handgun and speaking into the camera in English, but…
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A car bomb critically injured a university lecturer in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday and was blamed on Islamist rebels who have promised to keep up attacks even as they have lost territory to a military offensive. There was no immediate claim of responsibility by the al Shabaab group but it has…
Somalia Islamist militant group al-Shabaab said a man accused of working with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to kill a senior rebel commander for a $1 million reward was one of four people it executed for spying. Omar Mohamed Kheyr was shot dead by a firing squad in the southwestern town of Bardhere yesterday after…
BANNED drug khat is moving underground as police try to enforce new restrictions, according to its users. Khat users told the Bristol Post the drug has increased in price and its use is moving behind closed doors. The plant stimulant is traditionally chewed in the Horn of Africa but was prevalent among the Somali community…