Tag: News in English

Garowe- President of Puntland state of Somalia Abdiweli Gaas responded negatively to the establishment of a new state in mid Somalia by the central Government. Mr. Gaas said that the formation of the state violates the Somali charter which is supposed to guide the formation of new states in Somalia. Puntland recalled all of its…

MINNEAPOLIS — Abdi Mohamed Nur, a 20-year-old Somali-American, reportedly left his family in Minnesota to travel to Syria to join and fight alongside the Islamic State (formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS) last month. Earlier this month, the FBI’s office in Minneapolis said Nur and about 15 other people…

The British Red Cross will this week deploy two more specialist delegates to West Africa as governments and aid agencies scale up efforts to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in the region.   A health delegate and logistics expert are being sent by the charity to Sierra Leone and Liberia respectively, to…

His Excellency Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed alongside H.E President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud presided over the signing of the Central Regions State formation agreement. This landmark occasion has moved the nation forward in terms of rehabilitation and peace building throughout the region. Delegations from the Regional State of Galmudug, the Administration of Himan & Heeb…

Somali pirates and Iranian Navy fought after the pirates attacked Iranian merchant ships. According to FARS, an Iranian news agency, the Iranian navy saved the ships which were five in number from the pirates. The clash happened at the Gulf of Aden. Admiral Habibullaah Sayari, the head of the Iranian Navy confirmed the incident and…

A Somali family have been living on a bench in Tooting for weeks on end. Last night two people were huddled under sleeping bags, directly outside TK Maxx, in Tooting High Street. They had multiple suitcases around them However, this is not the first sighting of the pair who have been spotted on the bench over the…

A local Somali woman accused of raising money for the terrorist group al-Shabab was released from custody, pending a trial in Virginia, after more than 100 community members packed a Seattle federal courtroom Tuesday in her support. The decision to release 44-year-old Hinda Osman Dhirane, of Kent, on her own recognizance was made over the…

AMISOM troops together with the Somali National Army have today captured an assortment of weapons and ammunition from al Shabaab suspects in the capital Mogadishu. These were seized at the Asuman Atto Garage in Mogadishu town during a cordon and search operation conducted this morning. The weapons recovered include 151 tortoise grenades, 238 Multi- Grenade…

When Hani Garabyare was a little girl, she prayed that she would be an American. The 27-year-old Somali native is now an American citizen and finds herself walking up Capitol Hill each day to work in the Senate. When Garabyare was 3 years old, Somalia descended into civil war. Both her parents were members of…

ISTANBUL, Jul 29 2014 (IPS) – Among the labyrinth of winding narrow streets just outside a major shopping centre in the Kumkapi neighbourhood of Istanbul is a rundown road, congested with shops and apartments stacked atop one another. Cars somehow manage to come barrelling down the street as people slowly move to the narrow pavement…

ROME – Paying one of the highest prices for the escalation of the conflict in Libya are once again refugees – including many Eritreans, Ethiopians, Sudanese, and Somali, said Father Mussie Zerai, head of the Habeshia Agency Cooperation for Development. Habeshia has called for a humanitarian corridor to take the thousands of refugees from other…

Mogadishu Mayor, Hassan Mohamed Manguud, had by chance escaped an attempt on his life when an explosive device, planted in his car earlier, went off in the Somali capital. The device went off a very short time before Manguud got into the car on Saturday, totally destroying it, according to a Somali government official. “The…

The United Nations has accused two advisers to the Somali president of sending arms to al-Shabaab in a shipment which arrived just weeks after the Islamist militant group’s fighters stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi last September and killed at least 64 people. One of the aides, Musa Haji Mohamed Ganjab, allegedly claimed to have…

A man that was behind Villa Somalia’s attack on February 22, told the investigators that he was pressured to collaborate and facilitate the terror group to enter the heavily-fortified Somali Presidential Palace compound, through the gate with a car bomb by Hormuud Telecom Somalia inc. (HORTEL). Mr. Muhyaddin, who was arrested by the Security forces…

Minneapolis police officer Mike Kirchen hopped off his bike on a recent afternoon and strolled through the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, home to the largest Somali immigrant population in the United States. An hour into his shift, he had given stickers to curious children, stopped traffic to help a woman cross a busy street, moved loitering teens…

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The United Nations has reported alarming rates of malnutrition in the Somali capital where aid agencies cannot meet the needs of 350,000 people due to insufficient funds, drought and conflict. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the Somali government had compared the situation to the run-up to…

Mogadishu The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) protests the closure of Radio Jowhar in the town of Jowhar, the regional capital of Middle Shabelle region by the Somali police, following 24 hour ultimatum and call for the Somali government to allow the Radio station to resume operation and provide enough time the radio station…

Mogadishu The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns the attack on journalist’s car with explosive device attached to the car, near the Waberi police station in Mogadishu on Friday July 25, 2014, in which the journalist survived, after the car exploded, making the second such attack on journalists’ cars in two months, the latest…

Mogadishu, 26 July 2014 – H.E. Mustafa Duhulow today addressed the media in Mogadishu providing an update on the progress of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) over the last week. The Minister provided details on various issues such as: Scholarships to Somali students, Federal Government’s proactive efforts to reconcile communities in Hiiraan Region, Parliament’s…

Mogadishu: African Union troops in Somalia said Friday they had killed two “senior” commanders of the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents, in the latest push of an offensive against the extremist fighters. Witnesses reported that fighter jets also pounded the town of Jilib in southern Somalia’s Middle Juba region on Thursday, part of the offensive by the…