Tag: News in English

Laughing and chattering teenagers walk past Somali Specialist, a nondescript hair salon in a nondescript neighbourhood in Islamabad. Their raucous cackle earns them a glaring look from an elderly man walking by. This is ‘Somalistan’ or ‘Somali Street’ in the federal capital’s G-10 sector. The street’s unofficial name has an exotic ring to it. In…

Naima Mohamed remembers watching in March as about 100 mostly Somali students, tired of feeling harassed over their race and religion, walked out of St. Cloud Technical High School. “It was just a lot of pent-up frustration,” said Mohamed, 14, who’ll be a sophomore at Tech High when school returns next week. “People kept how…

A signing ceremony was held for the transfer of operations of Mogadishu International Port, located in Somali’s capital Mogadishu, to Turkey’s Albayrak Group, which was attended by Somali Ports Minister Abdurrahman Muallim and Deputy Minister Cemal Buru, representatives from the Albayrak Group and officials from the Turkish Embassy in Mogadishu. Delivering a speech at the…

Three Ugandan soldiers have been charged over the killing last month of a group of civilians in Somalia, an African Union (AU) official has said. Maman Sidikou, the head of the AU in Somalia, apologised to the families of the seven people killed in the attack. The AU had previously denied that the incident took…

Mogadishu. The Somali militant Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a Mogadishu hotel on Sunday, driving a car packed with explosives through the hotel gate and killing at least 13 people, a first responder and the rebel group said. A Reuters witness said blood and pieces of flesh were spattered around the site of the blast…

Back in March, about 70 Technical High School students, most Somali, walked out of classes to protest how they were being treated. Two days later it happened again. Now, more than five months later and on the cusp of a new school year, it’s worth looking at the good and bad impacts of those protests….

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) supports the protests stages the media community in Bosaso on Thursday against ongoing threats and intimidations against the journalists by the governor of Bari region, Puntland State of Somalia and calls respect to media freedoms. NUSOJ is concerned about the threats and the intimidations coming from the regional…

Authorities in Minneapolis aren’t commenting on the recent disappearances of more young Somalis from the Twin Cities. Somali-American community leaders fear another group may have traveled to join a terrorist group. Congressman Keith Ellison, who represents Minneapolis, says his office hasn’t been able to confirm details about the trips. He says it’s difficult to identify…

NAIROBI: The African Union force in Somalia apologized Friday for the “tragic” killing of seven civilians at a wedding last month, an attack it previously denied, saying three soldiers had been charged. Witnesses in Somalia’s southern port town of Merka told AFP that troops from the 22,000-strong AU force in Somalia (AMISOM) had opened fire…

Authorities in Germany say they have arrested a Somali man suspected of being among a group of pirates who seized a German freighter four years ago. The MV Susan K, operated by a German shipping firm, was hijacked off the coast of Oman in 2011. Pirates held the crew hostage for more than two months…

IOM, with funding from the Government of Japan, has launched its first report looking at the relationship between youth, employment and migration in Puntland and Somaliland, entitled “Investing in Somali Youth”. The report, which was launched on International Youth Day in Garowe, Puntland, aims to identify root causes for migration and analyses employment, skills and…

Vandalism to several vehicles over the weekend has left some St. Cloud residents feeling unsafe and wondering whether they are being targeted for their ethnicity. But St. Cloud police say they have not found any evidence that the crimes were racially motivated. A number of residents of Quarry Commons Apartment Homes and Edjwood Estates Apartments…

Kenyan police have named three men it believes to be the major recruiters of young Kenyans to Islamist terror groups, especially Somalia’s al-Shabab. All three were operating in Kenya but are now based in Somalia, the police report said. One is believed to have helped plan the 2013 Westgate shopping centre attack in Nairobi, the…

Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman said he supports Police Chief Kim Jacobs’ decision to keep officers from wearing head scarves for religious reasons. But he said the city will try harder to recruit immigrants to the force, including by appealing to the families of potential applicants. “I’ve said this to our chief and safety director,…

The UK is now home to more families containing four or more children than at any time since the early 1970s. The average Afghan-born woman living in the UK has 4.25 children and the average Somali-born woman has 4.19 children. The average for Pakistani women is 3.82. UK-born women have an average of 1.79 children,…

When Mohamed Jama Mohamud dashed through a busy parking lot on a recent afternoon at a small African business hub in north St. Cloud, some shoppers stopped him to ask, “When can you install my box?” Towering over each person he interacted with, Mohamud gave a soft smile and carefully chose his words as he…

A Caribou Coffee supervisor in St. Cloud, Minn., has apologized for a Facebook post in which she described herself as a “racist against Somalis.” “I’m racist,” Rachel Teigland wrote on Aug. 14. “I want them all sent back to Somalia.” She alleged that a friend had been murdered by someone of Somali background. Teigland also…

African Union soldiers allegedly killed six people at a wedding in Somalia’s port town of Merca, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. The AU has already said it is investigating allegations that its soldiers were involved in killing civilians in the town in July. But this is the first detailed account of this alleged incident,…