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Mpumalanga’s MEC for Community Safety, Security and Liaison, Vusi Shongwe, has paid a visit to Pienaar outside Nelspruit where residents have been looting foreign national’s shops. According to police, shops owned by foreigners were looted during and after the funeral of Wellington Hendrey Dube on Sunday. Dube was allegedly shot dead by a Somali shop…
His Excellency Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed who is in Abu Dhabi on an official three day visit to the United Arab Emirates where he is partaking in talks with UAE officials. The talks are aimed at strengthening co-operation between Somalia and the UAE and accelerating implementation of last year’s agreement signed between the two…
In line with the constitution and the regulations of the state, The Ministry of Interior and Federalism is mandated to federalize country through inclusive and transparent process led by the Federal government of Somalia. The FGS express deep concern over the two parallel conferences in Baidoa and urges its fellow citizens in Baidoa to avoid…
Several shops belonging to Somali nationals at Pienaar, outside Nelspruit, have been looted. The attacks followed the death of a 20-year-old man, allegedly at the hand of a shop owner. The looting started after the victim was buried. Somali business owners’ representative Ali Mohamed says police are not doing enough to protect them. Mohamed adds…
Twenty years have passed since Somalis started arriving in Minnesota to establish their largest community in America. Yet a large gap in understanding prevents integration of this burgeoning subcommunity in the North Star state. Popular culture provides Exhibit A. Barkhad Abdi gained instant stardom after outshining Tom Hanks in the thriller “Captain Phillips,” about Somali…
In Somali culture, women don’t strive to become police officers, Kadra Mohamed said. On Saturday morning, Mohamed was recognized as the first Somali-American woman to join the St. Paul Police Department, a move made possible by the department’s announcement that it has approved an option for employees to wear a police-issued hijab. “It’s nerve-racking in…
Over the past two years, the international community has embarked on multiple efforts to bring together representatives from the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and the Somaliland regional administration for talks on the future of their political relationship and potential avenues for co-operation. But the two sides have expressed contrary objectives to the outcome of…
The commissioner of Lafoole in Lower Shabelle who spoke to Radio Shabelle in Mogadishu declared that Lafoole has difficulties with soldiers from the Somali government who have illegal checkpoints in the area. The commissioner reported that the citizens and drives working from Mogadishu to Afgooye face complications and urged the heads of state like the…
HARGEISA, Somalia — The 30 Somali teenagers — both boys and girls — all agreed: Female genital mutilation is harmful and the practice should be abandoned. But what they really meant, they revealed moments later, is that girls should have their genitalia cut — just not sewn shut. “It’s our tradition and if the girls…
His Excellency Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed sends his condolences to the victims and their families of those killed in today’s car bomb attack on a tea shop in the Abdiasis district of Mogadishu. The Prime Minister, said: “I send my personal condolences to the families who have lost loved ones in today’s bombing of…
Mogadishu, 25 February 2014 – The Prime Minister of the Somali Federal Government H.E. Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed today laid out during a press conference his administration’s plan in the wake of the recent attack on the presidential compound by the terrorist group al-Shabaab on Friday, February 21, 2014. In his press conference, Prime Minister Abdiweli…
Prime Minister of Somalia H.E Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed chaired last night an extraordinary meeting of his cabinet, Mayor of Mogadishu, district commissioners of Banadir region and security agencies on improving security measures in Mogadishu. The meeting discussed how to raise safety awareness in local communities in Mogadishu and strengthening relations between the government and local…
Mogadishu, 24 February 2014 – H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the President of Federal Republic of Somalia today chaired the first High Level Partnership Forum with the United Nations Special Representative for the Secretary General, H.E. Nicolas Kay. Participants included the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Security, Finance, and Interior & Federalism, Special Representative of the AU,President…
Islamist militants said yesterday that their attack on the Somali president’s compound, in which at least 11 people died, was an attempt to kill or abduct him. Shebaab fighters blasted through a gate with a car bomb on Friday and fought a gun battle with guards at the heavily-fortified compound known as Villa Somalia. President…
H.E Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, member of his Cabinet and civil society members today attended the funeral service of the Permanent Secretary, Office of the Prime Minister, who was killed in yesterday’s cowardly attack. “It is with great sadness that I learnt of the death of my Permanent Secretary Mohamud Hersi Abdulle “Inda-ase’ in…
Somalia’s ongoing recovery will continue to defy the enemies of peace, His Excellency President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said today after a terrorist attack in Mogadishu. The President said: “My first duty is to send my condolences to the families of those killed or wounded in today’s disgusting attack. They include people who have dedicated their…
The Finns party politician at the centre of the row had demanded new, ‘clean’ meeting rooms because a multicultural working group used the same facilities as the Finns party group on Lieksa council. The town has struggled to adjust as Somali refugees have moved there, and the committee is one measure taken to help improve…
MOMBASA, Kenya—British national Jermaine Grant, on trial in Kenya accused of planning an attack there, was targeting British, French and U.S. interests, a London detective told the court on Tuesday. Kenyan police suspect Grant, from east London, has ties to the Somali al Shabaab rebel group blamed by the authorities for a string of attacks…
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council is unlikely to fully restore a decades-old arms embargo on Somalia, despite concerns about the possible diversion of weapons to al Qaeda-linked militants, but may extend eased restrictions on government purchases, diplomats said. A year ago, the 15-member council agreed to partially lift the arms embargo on…
Fadumo, a Somali journalist, finally spoke to the media about being raped after her calls to the authorities fell on deaf ears. She said she had been raped by two other journalists several months earlier. Two days after her interview was , police hauled her in for questioning. Three weeks later, a judge convicted her…