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(CNSNews.com) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) plans to call Monday for Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson to withdraw from the 2016 campaign after the retired neurosurgeon said Islam was not consistent with the U.S. Constitution and that he would “absolutely not” advocate having a Muslim in the White House. “Mr. Carson clearly does…
Mogadishu, 20 September, 2015–The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) calls for a thorough investigation into the today’s incident which AMISOM vehicles wounded a broadcast journalist. Abdirahman Mohamd Ibrahim known to many as Gacan was working for Radio Mogadishu, voice of the Somali Army. He was injured by an AMISOM vehicle outside the presidential palace…
Encouraging words to get to know your neighbors. 300 refugees come to live in Fargo every year, this month, Lutheran Social Services is helping resettle 60 people. But when we hear about ISIS recruiting youth from the Somali-American community in the Twin Cities, it’s easy to stereotype. Sunday, several people worked to break down barriers…
Local and national law enforcement officials met in Minneapolis on Friday to discuss ways to counter the sophisticated recruiting efforts of Muslim extremists, amid an atmosphere of suspicion within the local Somali community of government surveillance. The meeting came as the case of seven young Somali-American men accused of plotting to abandon their homes and join the…
The Islamist militants, who aim to overthrow the United Nations-backed government, recaptured several settlements this month in central and southern parts in the country. The militants have been pushed out of the capital, Mogadishu, and other major cities in the country by government forces and the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), which is largely…
Somalilandsun- A statement given by the joint counter-terrorism force of the Ethiopian Federal Police and National Intelligence and Security Agency announced that Mola Asgedom, the leader of the opposition Tigray People’s Democratic Movement (Demhit) and nearly eight hundred fighters, defeating Eritrean army units sent to stop them, fought their way out of Eritrea and into…
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has vowed to find out what caused a crane collapse that killed 107 people at Mecca’s Grand Mosque ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage. The hajj, a pillar of the Muslim religion that last year drew about 2 million faithful, will take place despite Friday’s tragedy, Saudi authorities said on Saturday…
MOGADISHU,Sunday September 13, 2015 – Somali-Canadian rapper K’naan Warsame has posted photos on social media while performing hajj in Saudi Arabia with his family, in an action that was praised by his fans. “Standing before Al-Masjid Al-Nabawi, with the prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) house and burial site behind me, Madinah is a living and breathing history,…
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – Kenya on Friday announced a new security operation aimed at ousting Islamic extremists from a forest along the border with Somalia. Al-Shabab extremists have been using Kenya’s vast Boni forest as cover to launch attacks on Kenyan territory, Interior Secretary Joseph Nkaisserry said. Al-Shabab, which has ties to al-Qaida, is increasingly…
There’s a misbegotten view that the most senior politician of an ethnicity is the “leader” and “spokesperson” for that community. This is primeval — primitive and tribal — politics. Utterly Neanderthal. But it’s the “perceived” reality in Kenya. That’s why Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi — like other tribal barons — speaks of panel-beating…
The leader of Uganda conceded on Saturday that Islamic extremists in Somalia may have taken some of his country’s troops as prisoners, and blamed his own commanders for being “asleep” in allowing a recent attack on an African Union base. President Yoweri Museveni said that 19 soldiers were killed and six were missing following the…
Bossaso, Puntland (HOL) – The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL) began recruiting fighters in Puntland according to parent, family members and other relatives who live in Bossasso. The parents and relatives interviewed by HOL said that their children were forcibly taken by ISIS recruiters operating in the region. Around 40 children mostly under…
Government agents make a surprise visit to a young journalist’s home with questions about articles he’s written about an emerging protest movement. It may sound like a scene from a distant and frightening land, but it happened last week to 22-year-old Jama Abdirahman, a college student and recent graduate of the Seattle Globalist’s youth-reporter apprenticeship program. Abdirahman wasn’t…
The plight facing Syrian refugees is similar to what Mustafa Khassim experienced fleeing Somalia. “I know people living in the refugee camps are suffering very much,” Khassim, who came to Canada in May of 2012, said Friday. Khassim was 10 years old when his family left Somalia after the government collapsed in 1991. Their new…
The Somali embassy in Khartoum vehemently denied press reports which claimed that the most recent batch of Sudanese students sneaked out of the country using Somali passports. A statement signed by the Somali ambassador in Khartoum Mohammed Abdullah Agas on Wednesday, described these reports as “untrue” and “lacking credibility”. The envoy said that Somali passports…
The government of Somalia has confirmed the appointment of General Mohamed Aden Ahmed as the new Chief of Somali Armed Forces.Announcing the appointment after a meeting by the cabinet in Mogadishu on Thursday, the government described General Ahmed as a suitable choice for the fledgling Somali armed forces which is being reconstituted. The Somali Armed…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — St. Cloud Technical High School has been scrambling to address criticism from some Somali students who say they’ve been harassed over their race and religion. The school district has hired 11 new staffers, all but one of whom speaks Somali, to fill the recently created communications support specialist positions in…
Police in Somalia’s northern state of Puntland are investigating the brutal slaying of a Minnesota teen last May. Ammar Abdihamid Abdirahman, 17, was killed at a boarding school in the Somali town of Qardho six months after he left Minnesota. Somali media reports and Abdirahman’s family attorney say a group that included the school’s principal…
The Somali capital, Mogadishu, is hosting an international book fair, the first such event in the city in more than two decades. Authors, playwrites, poets, artists and musician have travelled from across the world to attend the three-day event that was also guested by the Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. “We are holding this fair…
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Islamist al Shabaab militants killed at least seven people including a regional official and local police commander in an attack on a government convoy in southern Somalia on Wednesday, officials and the group said. Al Shabaab attacked the convoy between Garbaharey and Baladhawo towns in the Gedo region, near the Kenyan border….