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Forget Hollywood flirt Jared Leto, now, Lupita has not only been linked to Somali rapper K’naan, but American press is reporting of an “impeding wedding”. According to AllHipHop.com, there are new rumours that suggest that the pair are close to getting married after a mere six months. However, there is a catch! Lupita is now a…
If you venture into Eastleigh at night, an area in the capital with a large ethnic Somali population, you are walking into a ghost town. Residents are locking themselves inside their homes while police lorries are parked outside with roaming agents demanding IDs of anyone caught in their vicinity. “We cannot go out,” one exiled…
His Excellency Minister of Finance, Hussein Abdi Halane, presented Somalia’s Budget for 2014-2015 to Parliament, setting out how the government will take further action to secure Somalia’s future – re-building the economy and social services. The Budget total sees a 91% increase from the 2013 Budget of $114.3 million to a total of $218 million…
German magazine Der Spiegel has reported that the US National Security Agency kept more than 300 reports on Chancellor Angela Merkel in a special databank about scores of foreign heads of state. The magazine said Saturday the secret file about the surveillance of Merkel was part of a trove of documents obtained by former NSA systems analyst…
Four years ago, al-Shabab controlled large parts of central and southern Somalia, including most of the capital, Mogadishu. Security forces have since pushed the armed group out of Somalia’s major cities, but al-Shabab continues to launch periodic attacks, including an assault on the presidential palace in Mogadishu last month. Al Jazeera talks to Somalia’s Prime Minister Abdiweli…
A LIB Dem revolt has raised doubts over a planned ban on the stimulant khat. Khat, used widely in Somali communities across the UK including Bristol, could be banned under new laws proposed by Home Secretary Theresa May. But two Lib Dem members of a committee meeting this afternoon to discuss the ban have spoken out in opposition. However,…
The government of Somalia says it has captured two senior al-Shabab commanders, one of them a suspect in a bombing that killed more than 20 people. Officials displayed the two men to reporters Monday in the town of Qoryoley, but withheld their names, pending what it called further investigations. Deputy Security Minister Ibrahim Isak Yarow…
The country’s largest and most diverse school board was in the spotlight recently for all the wrong reasons. The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) plan to help Somali-Canadian youth better succeed in school erupted in controversy when a segment of the community denounced the efforts. “Our children are born and raised in Canada; we don’t…
KAMPALA, Mar 31 2014 (IPS) – On a Friday afternoon men wearing kamis — long white traditional robes — climb the steps to Somcity Travel, a small family business and travel agency in Kisenyi slum, in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. The agency boasts that they “fly all over the world” but to one destination in particular — Somalia. “In…
MANKATO — For a time, Somalis in Minnesota had something of a suitcase mentality as many wondered if their time here was temporary, said Hashi Shafi of Minneapolis. For that reason, and because it was something of a foreign concept, many people didn’t participate in American democracy. “To unpack our suitcases takes time,” said Shafi,…
NAIROBI, Kenya — Three blasts in central Nairobi killed at least six people and wounded two dozen Monday evening in a coordinated terrorist strike, officials said. The explosions occurred in a neighborhood known for its large Somali population. Sometimes called Kenya’s “Little Mogadishu,” Eastleigh has seen several grenade attacks over the last year. Six people…
The Seychelles on Sunday transferred nine Somali pirates to serve the remainder of their jail sentences back home, the government said, taking the total transferred to more than 90. The convicted pirates, who had been tried on the Indian Ocean archipelago, were flown back to Somalia’s northern Puntland region, the interior ministry said in a…
Washington — As the UN-authorized African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) continues its military offensive against al-Shabab insurgents in central Somalia, the rainy season approaches. Ethiopian military forces joined the AMISOM force in January, bringing troop levels for the campaign to more than 22,000 peacekeepers. The enhanced force has expelled the jihadist rebels from an estimated 10…
Further fighting took place late last night in Qoryoley after it was provoked by armed fighters from Al-Shabaab and attacked a police station belonging to the Somali police force in the district of the Lower Shabelle region. During the brawl, different weapons were used including AK-47’s with an extreme exchange of gunfire. The precise numbers…
ARLINGTON, Va., March 29, 2014- Global Guardian, the international security and emergency evacuation firm has added Somalia to the list of countries where it provides personnel tracking, emergency response, security, medical support, and evacuation services. The firm’s security and emergency response coverage includes the Puntland and Somaliland states and Somalia’s largest cities such as Mogadishu, Hargeisa, Bosaso, Kismayo, Galkayo, Afgooye and…
Two days after the end of school in June, four Minneapolis educators plan to head off to a different kind of summer school. Three teachers and a Somali-born bilingual aide from Anne Sullivan Communication Center plan to fly to Somalia in a quest to better understand the background and educational needs of Somali-American students who make up 60 percent…
In April, 2013, a group of grieving Somali mothers and concerned community members came to my constituency office to demand answers and action from the federal government. Almost 50 young Somali-Canadian men had died violently, largely in Alberta and Ontario, since 2006; and many of the killings remained unsolved. In 2012, six of 33 Toronto…
Geneva (AFP) — The UN refugee agency on Friday criticised Kenya’s decision to order all refugees, most of them Somalis, to report to two overcrowded camps after a deadly attack on a church. “UNHCR understands Kenya’s need to address security concerns,” said Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. “Reinforcement of…
The Home Secretary has rejected calls to rethink a planned ban on the drug khat, which is most commonly used by people of East African origin including a sizable Somali community in the West Midlands. It follows warnings from MPs that there was no evidence the drug is harmful – and police will be forced to target specific immigrant…
Muslims think they can actually beat their wives, a judge has told Tallaght Court. Judge Anthony Halpin made his claim yesterday as he was dealing with a man accused of burgling his estranged wife’s house. Khadar Younis, aged 46, a Somali national from Belfry Hall, Citywest, had pleaded not guilty to burglary, contravening a protection…