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Two weeks after a political caucus erupted into chaos, the Somali-American community in Minneapolis gathered for a chance to repair a public image many had felt was tarnished by the violent scuffle. Private security officers and professional translators milled about the crowd of about 700 people at Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota…
Two days ago, Isse Mohamed Alaaki, a respected security official also known as Isse Kamboni, was assassinated by Shabaab. Isse had been appointed to his post in October and was a close associate of Interim Jubba Administration leader Ahmed Madobe. Isse was killed while traveling by car with three of his bodyguards. One of them,…
WireService.ca Media Release (02/17/2014) The number of Somalia living in St. Cloud, MN, is growing. There is no official number of how many Somalis are living in the city now, but the unofficial estimate could be as high as 25,000 Somalis living in St. Cloud and the surrounding cities, like Waite Park, St. Joseph, Sartell…
“Education opens many closed doors,” says Mohamed Maalim, 25, a bespectacled young Somali academic hero, a former student of Hagadera Secondary School who is remembered by many Dadaab residents for his sterling performance in the KCSE examination in 2011. He is now an Electrical Engineering student at the University of Saskatchewan in the…
A substantial number of Somali refugees in Yemen are requesting to be return back to their home country Somalia following roughly when 5000 Somali refugees were recently transferred back to their country. The Somali refugees in Yemen insisted on the Somali and Yemen governments to work together and make it easier for the safe homecoming…
18 February 2014 – Despite some stabilization, the humanitarian situation in Somalia remains fragile and it is vital that the international community stays the course to ensure that millions of people in the Horn of Africa nation receive the assistance they need, a top United Nations relief official said today. “For Somalia, it does come…
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) – A planning and zoning commission meeting concerning turning a Mexican restaurant into an Islamic center in the eastern Idaho city of Pocatello turned into a religious discussion. The Idaho State Journal reports that about 100 people on Thursday attended the hearing involving a request to turn the old El Jacalito Mexican…
Captain Phillips star Barkhad Abdi has won the 2014 best supporting actor BAFTA, beating Bradley Cooper, Daniel Bruhl, Matt Damon and Michael Fassbender. Before being cast in the role – his cinematic debut – Barkhad was a limo driver, a store worker and a DJ in Minnesota. Born in Somalia, he moved to America with…
The immigrants in their 20s and 30s told police they were headed to South Africa in search of employment. Garissa County Commissioner Rashid Khator said the suspects were arrested while on board a bus heading to Nairobi. 11 Somali immigrants were on Sunday afternoon arrested in a sting police operation along the Garissa – Dadaab…
Osman grew up in Somalia, where the idea of becoming a jockey was outrageous, he said. Osman fled his native country and became a refugee in Kenya before coming to the United States, and he said survival had been the only thing on his mind at the time. Osman said it was in April 2009,…
Abubakar Shariff Ahmed is not a hard man to find. Ask around in the Majengo area of Mombasa and people will know where he lives. But ask around too conspicuously and you are likely to arouse suspicion. Mr Ahmed is perhaps better known by his nickname, Makaburi. It means “graveyard” in Swahili. His name features…
A Kenyan-based merchant vessel was attacked by suspected Somali pirates off the coast of Somalia on Friday in the first such attack since this year. Kenya’s maritime official said the ill-fated vessel, dubbed MV Andrea, was attacked by assailants aboard a white hulled skiff while underway to the port of Mogadishu, Somalia. “The crew members…
“For a long time, international aid money destined for Somalia has had limited impact because it has not been invested in Somalia by Somalis,” says a project coordinator from south central Somalia, (who cannot be named for security reasons). This is a common perception among Somalis on aid intended for one of the world’s most…
NAIROBI/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey has stopped direct budgetary support to Somalia, cutting off a major source of funding for a government trying to rebuild the country after more than two decades of chaos.Turkey is a key ally of the Somali government. Its vast humanitarian aid effort at the height of the 2011 famine has endeared…
13 February 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) strongly condemned an attack near the airport in Mogadishu that resulted in a number of deaths and injuries, as well as damage to a UN vehicle. A vehicle exploded close to a UN convoy near the airport…
STUDENTS at one of London’s most Asian schools have described the decision by their teacher to launch an after-school Gaelic Football club as “confusing at first”. Southall Shamrocks was established after Irish geography teacher Brendan Doherty ran several football sessions last summer as part of National Sports Week at Featherstone High School in West London,…
The National Union of Somali Journalists [NUSOJ] protests the arrest of two radio directors in the overnight of 11th February 2014 by the National Security Agency NSA, the latest in a string of cornice against the media in Somalia. Members from the National Security Agency NSA detained Mohamed Barre Haji, the owner and the…
A Somali woman who hijacked a plane between Blenheim and Christchurch armed with three knives has been refused parole. Asha Ali Abdille, 39, was sentenced to nine years’ jail with a minimum non-parole period of six years, after originally pleading guilty to hijacking an Air New Zealand plane carrying seven other passengers and two pilots…
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advise against all travel to Somalia, including Somaliland. Any British nationals in Somalia should leave. There is a high threat from terrorism, including kidnapping, throughout Somalia, including Somaliland. Terrorist groups have made threats against westerners and those working for western organisations. The FCO believes that there is a constant…
Kenya’s High Court on Wednesday denied bail on four Somali terror suspects charged with connection with Jan. 16 blast at the East African country’s main airport. Senior Principal Magistrate Doreen Mulekyo had earlier released Hassan Abdi Mohammed, Mohammed Osman Ali, Yusuf Warsame and Garad Hassan Fer on 233,000 US dollars bond each and two Kenyan…