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Minority problem is a recurrent issue in almost all parts of the world, including the more inclusive USA. On Thursday (Dec. 4) evening a 15-year-old Muslim boy of Somali descent – Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein – was struck by a SUV intentionally as he was leaving the Somali Center of Kansas City after leading a prayer service…
Mogadishu, 6 December 2014-The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today held an event to mark the Human Rights Day ahead of the International Human Rights Day December 10, 2014 to highlight the violations against the Human Rights Defenders, especially the attacks against the press in Somalia including harassment, intimidation, unlawful or arbitrary arrest and…
A woman died this evening after falling approximately five storeys at about 4.45pm, in Triq il-Hamrija, Marsascala. Preliminary investigations found that the victim, an 18-year-old Somali woman, who resides in Marsascala fell from a balcony. She was immediately conveyed to Mater Dei Hospital by ambulance, where she was certified to be in a critical condition….
The Somali parliament on Saturday voted to withdraw confidence from Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed and his government. Some 153 MPs voted in favor of a motion to withdraw confidence from the Premier, while 80 legislators voted against. Last month, 165 MPs drafted a bill in the 275-member assembly withdrawing confidence from the premier, who…
Federal agents are investigating a possible hate crime after a Kansas man struck and killed a Somali teenager as he was leaving a mosque Thursday evening. Ahmed Aden, 43, is accused of deliberately running down 15-year-old Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein as he was getting into a parked car outside the Somali Center of Kansas City, Reuters reported….
The European Court of Human Rights announced its judgment in two Somali piracy cases versus France on Thursday, siding with the pirates. The court stated that the suspected pirates, apprehended in Somalia by the French authorities, should have been brought before a legal authority as soon as they arrived in France. These two cases…
A Kenya military plane has crashed in southern Somalia, the army said, citing “technical problems” while Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters claimed they had shot it down. There are reports that the pilot is dead and two members of the crew are missing after Thursday’s incident. Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi, reporting from Nairobi, said that the jet…
UPDF Spokesman Lt.Col. Paddy Ankunda has a close relationship for A Somali woman whom is purported to be his second wife. According to Uganda based online newspaper Ugandan drone Col Akunda who hails from Rukungiri and a close friend to current internal minister Gen Aronda is living a life of seasons. Somali elites have warned…
Officials from the Arab League arrived in Somalia in order to hold high-level reconciliation talks. Representatives from the Arab League traveled to the Somali capital Mogadishu for high-level meetings with the country’s president, Hassan Sheikh Mahmud, over post-war rebuilding efforts and resolving political tension within the country. The delegation, which arrived in Somalia on Thursday,…
Four people were killed and nine wounded in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday when a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a UN convoy, police and rebels said. The convoy of armored vehicles were ferrying staff between Mogadishu’s heavily-fortified airport and a protected UN base in the city when it was hit…
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – An unknown assailant threw a grenade into a cafe in a town in eastern Kenyan on Wednesday, wounding two people in violence that followed two attacks by Islamists that killed more than 60 people in less than two weeks. Provincial police commander Musa Yego said the grenade attack took place in…
Toronto police say the man who died on the Don Valley Parkway on Saturday was husband and father in the family that was later found dead in an apartment at 85 Thorncliffe Park Dr. Yusuf Osman Abdille, 50, was hit by a southbound vehicle and died at the scene. His wife, Zahra Abdille, 43, and…
IN the small hours of December 2nd gunmen snuck up on a group of sleeping quarry workers in Mandera country, close to Kenya’s border with Somalia. They were rounded up and made to lie face-down on the ground. Thirty-four of the men, who make a pitiful living mining and breaking stones, were executed with a bullet…
(Reuters) – A 20-year-old Minnesota woman was charged on Tuesday with stealing a friend’s passport to travel to Syria, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. The criminal complaint alleged that Yusra Ismail, of St. Paul, used the stolen U.S. passport to fly to Amsterdam and Norway last August. She contacted her family several days later and…
Islamic extremists killed 36 non-Muslim quarry workers in northern Kenya early Tuesday, prompting Kenya’s president to announce a security shakeup Tuesday, firing his Interior Minister and accepting the resignation of the national police chief. President Uhuru Kenyatta named an opposition politician and retired army general, Joseph Nkaissery, to be the new Interior Minister, in charge of security. Police…
America Here I Come: A Somali Refugee’s Quest for Hope brings you the moving story of Hamse Warfa. It is a heartrending narration of his escape from a civil war that ultimately claimed the lives of more than two million people in Somalia to his becoming a leading light here in the U.S. The author…
Somali father of a brother and sister, aged four and two, has been ruled out as their carer following the arrest of their mother. London Borough of Tower Hamlets v D, E and F, care proceedings were launched for the two children following the death of their younger sister at the age of only four…
More than a dozen Somali men have been convicted of running an inner city sex ring where vulnerable British girls as young as 13 were abused, raped and forced into prostitution in the latest appalling case of organised abuse to blight yet another city. Gang members used colourful nicknames such as Left Eye, Magic and…
Nov, 26 2014 —In 2011, drought hit Somalia hard, triggering a famine that ultimately killed some 260,000 people. Now, after a poor rainy season, the Food and Agriculture Organization is warning that the country could be on the brink of another famine. To find out more about the current situation in East Africa, we spoke…
Kenya has appealed to the International Community to help resolve the rift between the President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mahamoud and the Prime Minister Abdweli Ahmed, report said on Tuesday.Deputy President William Ruto made the remarks Tuesday in Nairobi where he held talks with visiting Slovakia Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr….