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Lawyers were battling against the clock to prevent a deportation to Somalia today, amid warnings that anyone sent back to the country would be subject to reprisals from extremist groups. Lawyers at Duncan Lewis prepared an application for judicial review this afternoon, ahead of a planned removal tomorrow morning to Mogadishu. http://www.luftsport.de/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/term-papers.html “Our view is…
ADDIS ABABA – The US Embassy in Addis Ababa urged American citizens residing or traveling to Ethiopia to exercise caution over a possible attack by a Somali terrorist group. The safety advisory the embassy said was issued due to threat from Al-Shabaab against Ethiopia and western interests in Ethiopia. Citing to multiple and ongoing credible…
A grenade attack at a garage in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa left three people wounded, a local police chief has said. Two to three young men flung the grenade into the workshop, wounding three mechanics, before fleeing, Garissa county police chief Charles Kinyua said yesterday. The motive for the attack, which took place…
The University of Minnesota is seeking 300 current and former residents of the Skyline high-rise apartment in St. Paul who might have been exposed to infectious diseases due to misuse of blood monitoring equipment at charitable screening events. University medical students and others have conducted blood-sugar screenings at the complex since 2010 as part of…
London, United Kingdom – A Somali man forcibly returned to Mogadishu from the UK under a controversial new scheme to send home failed asylum seekers has described how he was punched and kicked by the British guards who accompanied him, and left him bleeding in a cell after having a tooth knocked out. The man, who…
MOGADISHU, Somalia — With an AK47 automatic rifle slung over her shoulder, Naeemo Abdi frisks people coming into a Mogadishu police station. When she holds back a man who tried to enter unchecked, he scowls at her and barks: “Woman and soldier?” She did not respond but directed the man to the security checkpoint. It’s…
The Bahati Mamas are a group of five Somali Bantu women living in City Heights who started their own farming business. The women are Somali Bantu Refugees who were forced to leave their home in 2004 to seek refuge in the United States because of the civil war in Somalia. The Somali Bantu refugees had…
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — This Sunday, thousands will take part in the Minneapolis Marathon in both the full and half versions. One participant, Fadumo Mohamed, will be running to inspire others and to change the perception of the typical runner. Mohamed, who has already completed her first half marathon, hopes to stand out in the crowd….
Jurors have found a Toronto man guilty of attempting to join Al-Shabab, the Somali terrorist group responsible for last year’s massacre at a Nairobi shopping mall. Mohamed Hersi, a 28-year-old former security guard at the downtown building that houses the Hockey Hall of Fame, was also found guilty of counseling another person to join Al-Shabab….
At least one person was killed today in a car bomb explosion close to a hotel and government security offices in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police and witnesses said. The blast, which comes amid a wave of attacks in the capital by Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels, targeted a bar near the City Palace hotel close to…
Abubakar Sheikh Abdulle who is the founder of Somali National Association for the Deaf is the first Somalia born, Somalia bred deaf student to graduate in the US. He graduated from the university of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), New York, USA with a double major. Abubakar was accredited well in the university as last…
The Cabinet of Somalia today approved the Independent Constitutional Review Commission in a regular session chaired by His Excellency Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed. The creation of the Constitutional Review Commission is a big step for the Federal Government of Somalia and H.E. Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed welcomed its approval. The Cabinet also had a lengthy…
THE delayed repatriation of more than 500,000 Somali refugees suffered a setback after Somalia pulled out of talks in protest at Kenya’s deportation of refugees from urban centres. The launch of a 12-member tripartite commission that was mandated to oversee the gradual and voluntary repatriation process has now been suspended indefinitely. Somalia was apparently angered…
Two men, of Somali nationality, were awarded on Thursday €5,000 each following a court order after their human rights had been breached after spending two and a half years more in prison than they should have. Omar Osman and Anwar Otman Hasan were convicted in Novermber of 2012 for being involved in a gang rape…
A verdict in the trial of a Toronto man charged with two counts of terrorism-related charges is expected in the coming days. Mohamed Hersi was arrested at Pearson International Airport in March of 2011 as he tried to board a plane to Cairo, Egypt, with a one-way ticket. The Somali-Canadian is the first person to…
Kal and Mooy (the name means “mortar and pestle”) is the city’s first East African food truck. It launched earlier this month and has since been on a mission to introduce Torontonians to Somalian cuisine—which, according to co-owner Ahmed Duale, is “a fusion of African, Middle Eastern and European cuisine,” combined with something he calls…
BAIDOA, 28 May 2014 (IRIN) – Acting governor of Baidoa and Sector 3 commander of the Somali National Army (SNA) Brig-Gen Ibrahim Yaro breaks into a broad grin, bordering on a chuckle, when asked whether his forces have any of their own helicopters. “You see that vehicle,” he said, pointing to a pick-up truck with…
CAF President Issa Hayatou has expressed sadness at news of the death of a child who died following a landmine explosion at a Somalia football field on Monday (26 May 2014). “It saddens me to hear of such a loss of a young life that went out to enjoy a game that is so dear…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) patrol ships confiscated a Somali oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf on Wednesday for smuggling a massive shipment of diesel fuel from Iran. The IRGC naval forces seized the 1000-ton ship, named the Yahya Yahya, for smuggling 500,000 liters of diesel…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Somali’s Army Chief Gen. Dahir Adan Elmi escaped an attempt on his life on Wednesday when a bombing hit his car in south of capital Mogadishu. “Elmi, also known as Indha Qarshe, escaped an assassination attempt when an explosion targeted his car on his way to the Defense Ministry headquarters,” security forces said,…