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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Somali police official says security forces arrested a senior pirate commander in Mogadishu. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said Monday that Mohamed Garfanji, considered to be the second-ranking leader of Somalia’s pirate industry, was arrested in Mogadishu Sunday for possessing illegal arms and other charges related to piracy. Garfanji is the second…
The following is the UCID statement on the forthcoming meeting between the governments of Republic of Somaliland and that of the Federal Republic of Somalia-proper: 1. The UCID party acknowledges the magnitude of the forthcoming meeting between the government of the Republic of Somaliland and that of the Federal Republic of Somalia-proper, where the…
In December 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice levied a $1.9 billion fine against HSBC Holdings PLC. The bank’s failure to enforce money laundering controls had allowed illegal organizations to maneuver around U.S. banking laws to launder money for decades. HSBC’s fine and the recent tightening of international finance restrictions have led several financial institutions…
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is facing logistical challenges that affect its ability to effectively carry out its mandate, Acting Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia Lydia Wanyoto Mutende said Wednesday (August 13th). “AMISOM continues to operate without the necessary force enablers and force multipliers required for…
Somali government and African forces battled a powerful warlord in Mogadishu Friday, with security forces then storming a major radio station critical of the fighting and arresting journalists. Witnesses reported at least five dead in a gun battle lasting several hours, after the army backed by African Union (AU) troops launched a pre-dawn assault on…
MOGADISHU – Heavy fighting broke out in Mogadishu on Friday as Somali government and African Union troops battled a powerful militia warlord in a bid to disarm him, security officials said, reporting a number of casualties. “Government forces and African troops are conducting security operations in Mogadishu, and this morning militiamen confronted them,” government security…
A Calgary man who fought overseas with the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) is dead, according to social media reports. Courtesy of a friend of Farah Mohamed ShirdonFarah Mohamed Shirdon, far right, before he left Canada. came from a Somali-Canadian family in Calgary. In April, he appeared in a video for the radical…
Mogadishu (DIPLOMAT) – The theme of this year’s “International Youth Day” is “Youth and mental health”. There are only few countries in which mental health is as important a topic as in Somalia. Many Somali youth have grown up in a country where violence and crime were the order of the day. Many of them…
Youths in Somalia and around the world deserve a future without violence, Prime Minister declares on International Youth’s Day His Excellency Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed today said the Somali government would do everything in its power to defend children and youth against violence, as we mark the International Youth’s Day around the world. The…
Elections officials in Minneapolis are planning unprecedented security precautions for Tuesday’s primary at several polling places in a Minneapolis House district,where the race between two DFL candidates has become quite contentious, MPR News reports. The city is posting sergeants-at-arms at four polling places – Cedar-Riverside, Seward, Prospect Park and the University area – to maintain order and…
Tuesday’s primary pits DFLers and Republicans against their own kind in 13 House races that span the state, with a few particularly ferocious contests that are creating internal conflicts for both parties. Nine races have Republicans challenging their party’s endorsed candidates, while six races feature DFLers running against other DFLers. Many of those offer just…
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate and unconditional release of La Voix de Djiboutireporter Mohamed Ibrahim Waiss, who was arrested while covering an opposition demonstration today in a suburb of Djibouti City. The police suddenly arrested Waiss during a protest in the district of Balbala Hayabley by members of the Union for National…
Mogadishu: Somalia’s hardline Islamists reported heavy fighting on Saturday in battles against government and African Union troops in the central Hiran region. Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab said at least 18 people were killed and several others wounded after the group’s fighters attacked a base of the AU force in Buloburde town, some 200 kilometres…
When Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks Saturday at the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Auditorium, he’s expected to address thousands of Somali-Americans about a host of topics: the current situation in their homeland, his political plans for the country, the community’s political involvement here in Minnesota, and the opportunities for developmental partnerships between the state…
WASHINGTON — A Somali man who was tortured and subsequently hunted by the Al- Shabaab terrorist organization has been granted asylum in the United States, the second African in as many weeks to win a request by an immigration judge in El Paso, Texas. “Abdi” — who has asked that his full name not be…
Terrorism and genital mutilation will be on the agenda at a meeting about issues affecting Somalis. North London’s Somali community are invited to the Eversfield Centre, in Eversfield Gardens, Mill Hill, to meet police officers. The event will see detectives discuss recruitment, Khat, extremism and other topical issues. They will also be encouraged to consider…
Soon after Aar Maanta arrived in the UK from Somalia in the mid-1980s as a child, his homeland changed dramatically. Civil war broke out and at one point the singer’s own official nationality switched overnight from Somali to Ethiopian. This, as Maanta explained after his set at the Womad Festival last month, was representative of…
On August 5, the U.S. Special Representative for Somalia, James P. McAnulty and Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Robinson, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs participated in a signing ceremony with Somali Finance Minister Hussein Abdi Halane at the U.S. Department of State. Special Representative McAnulty and Minister Hussein signed a bilateral agreement providing…
The Republic of Somaliland has lodged a formal protest with the UN Secretary-General against Somalia’s recent declaration of an Exclusive Economic Zone, which it sees as a violation of its sovereignty. An Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is a sea zone prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in which…
Mogadishu, August 8, 2014-The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns the arrest of a female journalist on Thursday night by the Puntland police in Garowe, the latest in a string of violence against journalists in Somalia. Police in Puntland arrested a female journalist Fatima Ahmed Mohamed of Radio Daljir on Thursday night on August…