Tag: News in English

Amanda Lindhout said Sunday she recognized the Somali arrested by the RCMP in Ottawa last week as the kidnapper who had communicated with her family, demanded a ransom and mused about marrying his Canadian hostage. “In Somalia, I knew this man as ‘Adam,’” Lindhout wrote on Facebook in her first public comments on the arrest….

The Somali Independence Day celebration from 1-9 p.m. Sunday at Lake George marks the formation of Somalia and also the entrance of Somalis into American culture. In 1960, Britain withdrew from Somali territory, which allowed people to form a new nation in east Africa. There, a civil war that began in 1991 and has continued…

The mother of the latest Briton to be killed in fighting alongside extremist group al-Shabaab has expressed her discontent with the British authorities. British extremist, Thomas Evans who traveled to Somalia to fight with al-Shabaab just two years after converting to Islam has been killed, according to reports. Evans, 25 left his village of Wooburn…

Somali Islamist militants detonated a roadside bomb, killing at least three soldiers passing in a military vehicle southwest of the capital on Tuesday, a military officer and the rebel group said. The Islamist Al Shabaab group, which wants to topple the Western-back government in Mogadishu, has frequently attacked officials, soldiers and politicians in the Horn…

On Sunday, Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout revealed that she believes that the Somali man whom the RCMP arrested in Ottawa last week was “Adam” – an educated, English-speaking Somali captor she met after being taken captive in Mogadishu in 2008 with Australian photographer Nigel Brennan. “He terrorized my mother, phoning her multiple times a day…

The Chief of Ugandan Defense Forces, Gen. Katumba Wamala, has cautioned UPDF soldiers in Battle Group 16 and the UN Guard Unit who are flying to Somalia on Monday against engaging in “any relationship whatsoever” with Somali women and men. Katumba Wamala who replaced Aronda Nyakairima in 2013 as CDF cautioned male UPDF soldiers not…

With the advent of possible British jihadist Thomas Evans killed in the al-Shebab attacks in Kenya, the east African country could supplant Syria as a place for Europeans seeking jihad, says Horn of Africa expert David Anderson, a professor of African history at the University of Warwick in the UK “Having caucasian European recruits on…

MOMBASA, Kenya – Eleven Somali al Shabaab militants and two Kenyan soldiers were killed when the al Qaeda-linked fighters attacked a military base on Kenya’s northern coast near to the Somali border today, a local official and a military spokesman said. The militants carried out the early morning raid on the military base near the…

MOGADISHU, June 13 (Xinhua) — A senior Al-Shabaab leader was killed Friday night in a covert operation by Somali army in the southern region, officials said Saturday. Aden Abdi Mohamed, Deputy Mayor of Hudur in Bakool region, told Xinhua Al-Shabaab leader Qasim Sheikh was killed after government troop cornered him. “Our forces launched an operation…

US Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work met Somali prime minister and defense minister in their first meeting at the defense department Pentagon. In a statement summarizing the meeting, Defense Department officials said Prime Minister Omar Ali Sharmarke and Defense Minister Gen. Abdulkadir Sheikh Ali Dini met with Work to discuss the importance of U.S.-Somali security…

New York, June 12, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the arrest in Canada on Thursday of Ali Omar Ader, a Somali allegedly involved in the 2008 kidnapping of journalists Amanda Lindhout, Nigel Brennan, and Abdifatah Mohamed Elmi, a Somali fixer and photojournalist. Ali, who appeared briefly in court in Ottawa today, is alleged to…

NAIROBI—The African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia said on Friday a convoy of Ethiopian soldiers was attacked a day earlier by the al Shabaab Islamist group and that a logistics team was headed to the scene to seek further details. The al Qaida-linked al Shabaab carries out frequent attacks in Somalia as it seeks to…

Canadian police have arrested a Somali man for involvement in the kidnapping of two foreign journalists in 2008. Police said Friday that Ali Omar Ader was one of the main negotiators of the group that seized the two journalists — Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan. An assistant commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted…

Mutual understanding and respect: Those are the goals of the organizers of the Somali Independence Day celebration on Sunday at Lake George. The celebration marks the formation of Somalia but also the entrance of Somalis into American culture, said organizer Haji Yussuf. Of course, it is a festival and it’s also supposed to be fun…

(APO)/The United Nations Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) the European Union (EU) African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) the United States of America and the United Kingdom welcome the progress made to date in the Juba state formation process. ‘We welcome the efforts of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and encourage the Interim Juba…

A megachurch failed Tuesday in its attempt to evict three businesses owned by Somalis, some of whom originally came to Amarillo as refugees. Hillside Christian Church attempted to evict the three Somali tenants, including Abdul Fatah and Jeylani Abdulle, from commercial property it owns near one of its campuses in northeast Amarillo after receiving complaints…

The Djiboutian opposition on Monday denounced the “deadlock” in which is the implementation of the framework agreement signed in late December 2014 with President Ismail Omar Guelleh and supposed to resolve the crisis resulting from the contesting the 2013 elections. “More than five months after the signing of the framework agreement, four months longer than…

We, the Jubbaland Diaspora Association and Jubbaland Diaspora around the world, support the people, the Parliament and the President of Jubbaland’s decision to cut all ties with the Mogadisho based Federal Government after the Somali Federal Government failed and showed lack of willingness to intervene the unconstitutional Motion presented by the few Federal Parliamentarians known…

The new album from Seattle’s Somali hip-hop duo Malitia Malimob courts controversy. It’s titled simply ISIS, a move that delayed the album’s release while iTunes scoured the group’s lyrics looking for ties to the infamous terrorist organization. The album cover is a picture of a dead Somali baby beneath a cartoon of Egyptian pharaohs and African…

Kenya government has cancelled daily flights to Somalia for undisclosed time, a source in Kenyan capital Nairobi has confirmed to Radio Dalsan. It is not immediately clear the main reason behind the decision but the relationship between two neighboring countries have been previously affected by security issues related to increasing cross border Al Shabaab attacks…