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An organisation which helps Somali immigrants find jobs has been handed a cash grant. BritSom, in Eversfield Gardens, Mill Hill, was given £1,450 by the Co-operative Membership Community Fund. BritSom was formed in 2008 to help Somali students, graduates and professionals support others from the same background. Abubakar Ali, of Britsom, said: “Funding is becoming…
Mogadishu — Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed nearly tripled the size of the previous cabinet and retained only two sitting ministers, yet observers say the newly sworn-in ministers may face the same problems that led to the ouster of the previous government. Ahmed named the nominees for his cabinet of 25 ministers, 25 deputy ministers…
Security – The arrest of Abdirahman Isse Hassan, a Somali murder suspect who quietly slipped into hiding in South Sudan, through the efforts of the Somali National Police Force (SNPF) has accentuated Somalia’s growing relevance and cooperation in the regional anti-terror battle. SNPF, which has also grown in capability, closely monitored the movement of Hassan…
London, 25 Jan 2014 (SDN) – Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud “Silanyo”, who is currently in London, after completing a successful visit to France, has taken time off his busy schedule in the British capital to seek medical attention. President Silanyo who left Paris on Thursday was warmly welcomed in London’s Heathrow airport by Somaliland…
MOGADISHU, Jan. 23 (Saba) – Somalia’s Prime Minister Abdul-Wali Sheikh Ahmed met on Thursday in Mogadishu with chargé d’affaires at the Yemeni embassy Fouad al-Zurqah. In the presence branch manager of Cooperative and Agriculture Credit (CAC) International Bank in Djibouti Ahmed al-Dhib, Ahmed and al-Zurqah discussed the economic relations between the two brotherly countries, the…
East African Restaurant is the quiet but self-assured new kid in Spenard. While its décor is dominated by remnants of the space’s previous German restaurant identity — walls coated in red and black striped wallpaper, an old piano, a stein for a tip jar, even the tables and chairs — the new tenant’s additions of…
His Excellency Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed today chaired Cabinet for the first time since appointing his Cabinet. The Prime Minister set out his plans and vision for Somalia and told Cabinet that the expectation and responsibility resting on their shoulders is great. “My Cabinet and I are in no doubt of the challenges that…
MOMBASA: A Kenyan court sentenced 24 Somalis to seven years each in prison on Thursday for attempting to hijack an Iranian merchant vessel, FV Ariya, in the Gulf of Oman in October 2010. The men, who were arrested by the Dutch navy working under NATO command, were handed over to Kenyan authorities because Somalia, which…
Hundreds of Somali citizens stand in long queues every day at the only centre in Mogadishu that issues national identification cards, and more often than not, one will hear complaints about the difficulty and length of time it takes to get through the process. The centre recently opened on December 23rd at the site of…
The second Somalia Investment Summit 2014 takes place in Dubai in April 6th to 7th. This year’s summit theme is ‘Opening new possibilities’. Hosted by Somalia Economic Forum, Somali Investment Summit 2014 will focus on the abundant opportunities and exciting future prospect in rebuilding the State of Somalia. With widespread support from the Somali Government,…
“We are tired of being marginalized. We came to Canada to integrate, but it seems officials at the TDSB would like us to segregate ourselves into ghettoes.” Those are the words of Suban Abdullahi, mother of two kids in the Toronto school system and three more who have graduated and are now in university. She…
Per Gullestrup, whose Danish‐operated ship was hijacked by Somali pirates for several weeks, is to be joined this Thursday, January 23rd at a meeting in London, by other shippers and government representatives, to discuss expanding coordination across job-creating projects in coastal regions of Somalia, including a fishing project he leads on the north Somali coast….
A woman who admitted she lied for the terror group al-Shabaab will have to wait until April to learn her punishment. Saynab Abdirashid Hussein, a former Minneapolis woman studying nursing in Tennessee, was to be sentenced Tuesday in federal court on a single count of perjury. But midway through the hearing, Chief U.S. District Judge…
NAIROBI, Kenya — Four handcuffed ethnic Somali men walked by the gaping, four-story hole in Nairobi’s Westgate Mall on Tuesday, part of an organized tour so court officials could visualize how the multi-day siege unfolded. The four ethnic Somalis are accused of aiding the four al-Shabab gunmen who carried out the attack which killed at…
His Excellency President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud today welcomed Parliament’s vote approving the new Council of Ministers. In a landslide vote Parliament confirmed Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed’s Cabinet. The President said: “I congratulate the Prime Minister and welcome and commend this responsible and democratic vote by parliament. This is an important step forward for…
His Excellency Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed today thanked Parliament for voting to approve the Cabinet of Ministers and declared that “the hard work now begins” for his government. Following the vote, the Prime Minister said: “I am thankful to the MPs and Parliament for taking their role responsibly and putting the national interest first…
DOLLO ADO, Ethiopia, Jan 20 2014 (IPS) – Yohamin Kesete, 32, and her six children live in Dollo Ado, a pastoralist community in Ethiopia’s drought-stricken Somali Region. But this is not where you will always find them. Kesete says that as temperatures soar and the rains become even more rare, her family is often forced…
Pirates have seized a merchant ship in the Red Sea and have taken it south towards Somali waters in the first successful hijacking in the region since 2012, maritime officials said on Sunday. The vessel, identified as the MV Marzooqah, sent a distress signal on Saturday evening in the Red Sea and was then turned…
The US military secretly deployed a number of trainers and advisers to Somalia in October, the first time regular troops have been stationed in the war-torn country since 1993, when two helicopters were shot down and 18 Americans killed in the “Black Hawk Down”disaster. A cell of US military personnel has been in the…
WASHINGTON – Federal prosecutors are dropping their case against a Somali translator accused of being a pirate and playing an illegal role in the hostage siege aboard a Danish merchant ship off the coast of Somalia in 2008. A jury last month deadlocked on two charges of hostage-taking against Ali Mohamed Ali. He had been…