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MUSKEGON, MI – Keni Thomas wasn’t supposed to be the squad leader when he and his fellow Army Rangers were dropped into Mogadishu, Somalia, in October 1993. But when his commanding sergeant was shot and injured by Somali militia, someone needed to take charge. “My sergeant looked at me and said, ‘Thomas, you’re in charge,’”…
Somalia is facing a new food crisis. 2.9 million Somalis are in need of humanitarian help, and 70% of the population has no access to clean drinking water. In recent years there have been some improvements in the situation for the Somali people, show new statistics. However, 1.1 million people are still displaced within their…
DOWAGIAC, MI — Is Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, “The Burgess Boys” (2013, Random House), a look into family drama, or is it social commentary? Is it about siblings with buried tensions, or a small town’s relationship with Somali immigrants after a clueless teen throws a pig head into a mosque? Speaking from her home in…
At least part of a retail building in south Minneapolis where a third-floor addition was being built collapsed Tuesday morning, according to police. Part of Karmel Square, a mall that houses about 150 Somali businesses at 2910 Pillsbury Avenue, gave way around 8:45 a.m. There were no immediate reports of injuries, said police spokesman Scott…
EDMONTON – A Somali man was sentenced to six years in prison Monday after he fatally stabbed a man in front of a 14-year-old witness at a Edmonton house party. Hassan Isse Ismail, 31, had two dozen family and friends in the courtroom as he entered his guilty plea for the death of 23-year-old Aden…
Today at the White House, President Obama and Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh pledged to work closely together to advance their shared vision for a secure, stable, and prosperous Horn of Africa and to strengthen and deepen the strategic partnership between our two countries. Economic, Trade, and Energy Cooperation President Obama and President Guelleh discussed…
CHEYENNE — While Wyoming might be the only state in the country without an official refugee resettlement program, that doesn’t mean there aren’t former refugees living in the Cowboy State. There are dozens, perhaps even several hundred, former refugees living in the Capital City alone. Many of these people, like Abdirashid Noor, are from the…
Violences in Nairobi and Mombasa, this week’s World Economic Forum on Africa, Ugandan Fatwa on mobile phone ring tones and upcoming general elections in South africa are all topics in today’s African papers. In the wake of the weekend bomb attacks in Mombasa and Nairobi, the opposition Orange Democratic Movement wants the government to present…
MOGADISHU — Somalia’s special forces may be one of the few success stories in the country’s feeble armed services, working overtime to nab suspected terrorists. But the national military still has a lot of work to do to ensure the future security of the country. It’s time for morning prayers in Mogadishu and security forces…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Navy for Operations Admiral Siyavash Jarreh announced on Sunday that the Navy’s 30th fleet of warships has rescued an Indian oil tanker from a pirate attack in the Red Sea. “The Indian Jok Jok oil tanker was attacked by 7 pirate boats in the Red Sea this morning,…
Kenya: The Orange Democratic Movement ( ODM) wants the Government to present the country with a road map for the withdrawal of Kenyan soldiers from Somalia. ODM said in the aftermath of the second terror attack since the Government launched the war on terror, hundreds of Kenyans have continued to lose their lives, a situation…
NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least three people were killed when two buses driving on a busy highway in the Kenyan capital Nairobi were struck by explosive devices on Sunday, the day after attacks in Mombasa. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Kenya has blamed similar attacks on the al Qaeda-linked Somali group al…
ADDIS ABABA – Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is expected to hold talks Saturday with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, a Somali diplomat said. “They will discuss a military front against the Al-Shabaab militant group and bilateral issues,” the diplomat told Anadolu Agency, requesting anonymity. Mohamud arrived in Addis Ababa on Friday for talks with…
MOGADISHU–At least seven people were killed Saturday, among them a prominent Somali official, in a bomb attack by Islamist militants in the center of the capital Mogadishu, officials said. Security sources said they believed a bomb was attached to a car being driven by Abdikafi Hilowle, a police official and former secretary for the city’s…
At least three people have been killed and several others injured in twin bomb blasts in Mombasa, Kenya, officials say. One blast happened at a busy bus station in Mwembe Tayari, near the city centre, when a grenade was thrown into a crowded minibus killing at least three people, and wounding more than 20. At…
His Excellency Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, today presented the government’s Work Plan for 2014 to Parliament. The Work Plan focuses on strengthening on-going security operations, establishing inclusive political processes, launching justice reform, laying foundations for economic recovery, enhancing social services delivery, mobilizing domestic revenue, and building capacity of government institutions. The Work Plan has…
Mogadishu, 03 May 2014. His Excellency President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud today issued a statement marking May 3rd, World Press Freedom Day. The President said: “On this, World Press Freedom Day, I we recognise the men and women of the press who work tirelessly to inform the population, often at great risk to themselves. I particularly…
Mogadishu, May 03, 2014 — The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia H.E. Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed expressed his grief about today’s explosion in Mogadishu that claimed the lives of innocent civilians. The explosion also killed the former Secretary General of Administration of Banadir Regional Administration Abdikafi Hilowle Osman and some of his…
102 anti-coup activists in Egypt were sentenced to ten years in jail on Saturday on charges of killing and inciting violence, judicial sources said. The verdicts for the 102 defendants, handed down ahead of a May 26-27 presidential election, relate to deaths that occurred during clashes in Cairo last July between supporters of elected president Mohamed…
(Reuters) – At least 3 people were killed in Mogadishu on Saturday, including a senior city council official, when a remotely controlled bomb planted by al Shabaab insurgents exploded on a busy street in the Somali capital, police said. Somalia’s fragile government is struggling to impose any sense of order more than two decades after…