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BRAMPTON, Ont. — What is a Canadian supposed to do when a friend confides he is about to travel overseas to join an armed extremist group committed to suicide bombings, government overthrow and war against the West? When Mohamed Hersi found himself in that situation almost four years ago, it wasn’t unfamiliar territory: Two of…
KUALA LUMPUR: The police counter terrorism division has launched a manhunt for at least five other members of the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab who entered the country as college students and tourists. Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the hunt was to ensure that Malaysia did not become a training ground for…
KITCHENER — There were times when Rahima Issa just wanted to give up. Like the morning in the depths of winter, when the Somali single mother of five had to take two of her children to the doctor. Because the bus to her son’s school ran only every half-hour, and she then had to take…
Toward the end of Nadifa Mohamed’s novel The Orchard of Lost Souls, after the Somali army lays waste to the northwestern city of Hargeisa in its merciless war against rebels in the late ’80s, the fighting stops. “The tanks, the planes, helicopters, armored vehicles and cannons have been put to bed and the few songbirds…
Friday, May 9, 2014 —His Excellency Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed concluded his successful two-day working visit to the towns of Marka and Qoryoley in Lower Shabelle region on Thursday (May 8th). The Prime Minister’s visit is part of his ongoing tour of different regions of the country to monitor the political and economic development…
The Somali-American community in Minnesota have made tremendous efforts to help the Somali refugees and Somali-Kenyans who had been ethnically profiled, detained, tortured, abused, extorted and deported by the Kenyan Government. Therefore upon rallying at the State Capital, writing letters, petitions, phone calls, e-mails, meeting with high level officials, finally we have being heard today…
Popular history does not record whether Sojourner Truth ever received an answer to her question, “Ain’t I a Woman?” In taking this question as rhetorical, the answer as self-evident, we assume that being human is self-evident, an assumption that is historically and conceptually inaccurate. We risk forgetting (or agree to forget) that much of what…
PETALING JAYA – The arrest of a 34-year-old east African man, believed to be a member of Somali-based militant group Al-Shabaab which has links to Al-Qaeda, has raised questions on how he managed to enter the country and if he was involved with other local militants detained over the past few days. Deputy Inspector-General of…
MEMBERS of the Somali Bravanese community are set to be handed a new home after the leaders of Barnet’s main political parties pledged more than £1million to rebuild their community centre, which was destroyed in an arson attack 11 months ago. Speaking tonight at a ‘North London Citizens Assembly’ meeting at Finchley Reform Synagogue in…
(CN) – A Somali refugee who endured genital mutilation as a child and now seeks U.S. asylum will face an en banc rehearing, the 9th Circuit said. A victim of female genital mutilation when she was just 3 or 4 years old, Sama Abdisalan also witnessed the executions of her aunt and uncle during Somalia’s…
As the camera moves shakily along Kenya’s grandest road, the Thika superhighway in Nairobi, it moves from a stopped bus with its windows blasted out to a line of people slumped on the pavement. A middle-aged woman with her skirt pulled up to show her bloodied legs looks around her for help. A few feet…
Mogadishu, 8 May 2014: Today the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, received a delegation of Members of Parliament at the State House. They presented to him a statement made earlier this week. The President acknowledged the written statement and confirmed his respect for the right of every citizen to…
Reps. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Erik Paulsen (R-MN), and Sean Duffy (R-WI) applauded the passage of the Money Remittances Improvement Act (H.R. 4386), which would make it easier for well-regulated nonbank institutions such as money service businesses to provide remittances to their customers across the globe. The bill was passed on a voice vote through the…
British Somali Mohamed Mohamoud is a man on a mission for democracy. He wants to get as many people as possible in Bristol’s Somali community registered to vote in the European elections. Over the past two years the community organiser and activist has been out and about in east Bristol where most of the city’s…
“I boarded a matatu number 48 to Kileleshwa at Odeon Cinema stage in the city centre. The matatu had seven other non-Somali passengers. They all alighted calling me a terrorists. I felt very embarrassed and shocked”. This is the story of Adan Mohamed, the winner Uongozi Season One, the TV reality show that sought to…
The Federal Parliament of Somalia has announced on Tuesday that members of the house would be provided two guards each. The Second Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Mahad Abdalla Awad, who disclosed the news to the media, insisted on the rights of legislators to be adequately protected. The assassination of two Somali lawmakers in…
LONDON (Reuters) – The cost of Somali piracy to the global economy fell by almost half last year as attacks slumped, but piracy in West Africa was on the rise, an annual security report said on Wednesday. The Oceans beyond Piracy report put the total cost of Somali piracy – by far the largest single…
A Somali described as a “person-of-interest” to the FBI is being held in Manitoba after he and another man walked across the border from Minnesota and were captured by RCMP officers. Ahmed Abdi Ismail and his travelling companion got 15 kilometres inland before they were picked up by members of the RCMP Integrated Border Enforcement…
SAN JOSE, California — The odyssey of a 15-year-old Somali immigrant who clambered into a jetliner wheel well in San Jose and defied the odds by surviving the flight to Hawaii remains unresolved more than two weeks after his astounding journey. Yahya Abdi was placed in the custody of child protective services and has not…
LAWRENCE, Kan (WIBW) The University of Kansas is breaking new ground in the language training department. Responding to the sunflower state’s increasing Somali speaking population, KU will soon be one of the first universities in the country to provide language training in somali. Several thousand Somali speakers live in southwest Kansas and more than 5,000…