Tag: News in English

In the music room at Lawton Junior High School, a Somali interpreter translates as mothers and fathers urge the public school district to put a $20-million replacement school in their northeast Edmonton neighbourhood. In late June, public school trustees will decide which of three older communities gets a new provincially funded K-9 school. “What do…

Calgary police believe a 25-year-old man who went missing in February was killed, but they have not identified any suspects. Suryan Giama was last seen by family Feb. 17 at a Woodbine home. Police recovered his vehicle about a month later in the Britannia-Elboya area of the southwest. Forensic evidence gleaned from multiple scenes in…

Monday, April 28, 2014 – His Excellency Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed met with the Somali Ambassador to Kenya, Mr. Mohamed Ali Nur, who arrived in Mogadishu on Sunday, April 27, 2014 after he was invited to brief the Prime Minister and Cabinet on the latest developments on the situation of Somali citizens in Kenya….

Somalia has recalled her ambassador to Kenya after the controversial arrest of its consul in Nairobi.Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Planning, Mahad Mohamed Salad confirmed in a news conference in Mogadishu on Sunday that the Somali government was recalling its envoy Ali Nor Mohamed to review diplomatic relations with Kenya in the wake of…

Canadians at risk of joining foreign terrorist groups in Syria and elsewhere are now being tracked under a program led by the RCMP, a senior counter-terrorism officer has revealed in an interview. The program has brought together police and federal agencies to identify “high-risk travellers” and disrupt their plans using methods such as denying them…

They call them Ciyaalka Badda or children from the sea. This phrase is used when referring to the young Somali refugees who come by boat from North Africa.   The expressions of the eight young Somali men leaning against the wall outside Termini station tell a complex story. They are caught in the midst of…

SAN JOSE, Calif. – He was young, displaced and frustrated, and he wanted nothing more than to reunite with his mother in their native Africa. The 15-year-old Somali boy had been arguing at home, and in the kind of impulsive move that teenagers make, he hopped a fence at San Jose International Airport last Sunday…

Conservative talk show host Lisa Benson recently stated that she will not ride in taxis that are driven by Somali drivers because she is afraid for her safety. On Sunday, Benson recalled on her radio show (audio below) how she recently flew into Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport, which she said is staffed by Somali refugees,…

The mother of Yahya Abdi, the Somali-American teen, who stowed away in the wheel well of a Hawaii-bound flight from California, says her son was trying to reach her in Africa. Speaking to VOA’s Somali service from “Sheed Dheer” a refugee camp in eastern Ethiopia, Ubah Mohamed Abdulle, expressed shock and said she burst into…

TORONTO – A Toronto District School Board (TDSB) plan to offer additional help to Somali students is being criticized by community groups and parents because they feel it will stigmatize their children. The TDSB created a task force in 2012 to address performance concerns regarding students of Somali decent. A board staff report indicated that…

MOGADISHU, April 25 (Reuters) – Somalia’s acting central bank governor Bashir Issa Ali has been confirmed in the role, the country’s prime minister said on Friday, tasking Ali with turning around an institution at the heart of graft allegations against the government. Western donors who are funding Somalia’s recovery after 23 years of conflict, including…

Mogadishu, April 25, 2014 – The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia His Excellency Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed chaired the Somali Cabinet’s regular session today, during which cabinet members discussed the approval of the Governor of the Central Bank and his deputy. Members also discussed the formation of administrations in the country’s regions and…

A new report from UNESCO suggests that mobile phones aren’t just promoting communication and commerce in the world’s poorest countries, they’re also encouraging literacy — especially among women. But technical and content barriers remain. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization surveyed thousands of mobile phone users in Africa, India and the Middle East…

Somali lawmakers, fearing for their lives following the assassination of two colleagues in capital Mogadishu, are urging the government to provide them with protection. “It is proving to be difficult to conduct parliament business as some MPs have raised concern that, unless their security is assured, they can no longer move from one point of…

The British Red Cross has deployed a second member of staff to Liberia in response to the Ebola outbreak as over 2 million people are warned, by text message, of the dangers of the disease.   Already, the Red Cross has launched emergency operations in six West African countries in response to the outbreak. Red…

Mogadishu, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 — The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia His Excellency Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, accompanied by the Minister of Air and Land Transport and his deputy, the Minister of Finance, the Turkish Ambassador and the General Manager of Aden Adde International Airport, laid the foundation stone for the building…

CAMPAIGN GROUP Operation Black Vote (OBV) has launched a Civic Leadership Programme in Tower Hamlets, east London, to nurture future Somali leaders. The aim of the project is to address the deficit of Somalis in civic and public life. OBV will select up to 50 individuals of Somali heritage aged 18 years upwards who live…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top United Nations envoy to Somalia warned Tuesday that the U.N. and other foreign diplomats may have to withdraw from the war-ravaged nation if they continue to be attacked.U.N. Special Representative Nicholas Kay said attacks that cause “significant losses” would likely force international officials to leave or, at least, pare down…

Mogadishu — After a closed session on Sunday (April 20th) attended by the speaker of the Somali parliament, his two deputies, the 15 parliamentary committee chairs and ministry officials, lawmakers said they were still unsatisfied with Ministry of Finance’s budgetary accounting. The details about last year’s expenditures remain “unclear” and other requested changes to this…