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Yasmine Warsame is a Canadian model who was originally born in Mogadishu, Somalia. During the early 1990s when she was fifteen years old she relocated to Canada with her family in order to avoid the civil strife and unrest that was taking place in Somalia during that time. After she became a famous model, Warsame…
December 26, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopian security officials on Wednesday said that Al Shabaab, a Somali terrorist group allied to Al-Qaeda, was behind a failed bomb attack in Addis Ababa in October. The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) and the Federal Police said they have arrested five suspects who they says are members…
Mogadishu, December 23, 2013…… The Turkish Prime Minister His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent congratulation cable to His Excellency Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed on his appointment as the Prime Minister of the federal republic of Somalia. In a letter to Dr. Abdiweli Sh. Ahmed, the Prime Minster extended his warm congratulation and hoped the two countries…
This documentary follows Somali-Australian former refugee, Abdirahman Farole who returns to his home land to become President. His goal, to tackle the pirate problem and bring democracy to Somalia.
Siad Ali formalized his entry into the District 3 race for school board in a well-attended announcement Saturday at the Phillips Community Center. Judging by the mostly Somali-American crowd of close to 100, the Somali-born staffer for U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar can claim fairly broad support. The most notable figures there in terms of school board politics were…
After more than two decades of conflict, some semblance of normality is returning to the Somalia capital, Mogadishu. A UN-backed government is consolidating its control of the city, and services such as rubbish collection and traffic lights have been restored. Now, a TV reality show has been launched, as the BBC’s Kate Forbes reports. A…
A close source to the central bank of Somalia has revealed to the Radio Dalsan that the foreign affairs minister Hon. Fowzia Hajji Adan and surrounding high ranking government officials in her office have spent close to one million US dollars on international travels and accommodations alone. Mrs. Haji Yussuf is reported to have attended…
Mogadishu, 22 December 2013 His Excellency President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud today launched Somalia’s new e-passport, hailing it as an important step for national and international security. The President said: “Now that we are well on the road to recovery after two decades of war, it is right that Somalia should take advantage of the latest…
The Somali prime minister received message of congratulation from his Ethiopian counterpart Mogadishu, December 22, 2013…… His Excellency Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed received message of congratulation from his Ethiopian counterpart His Excellency Hailemariam Desalegn on his appointment and approval as the prime minister of the federal republic of Somalia. On behalf of the government and the…
The Somali government has issued a decree calling for the cessation of clan fighting in Hiran region, government-run Radio Mogadishu reported Friday (December 20th). A delegation led by Minister of Natural Resources Abdirizak Omar Mohamed has been in Beledweyne since Sunday to mediate between two clans who fought in Kabahanley area over grazing land. The…
Dec 19 (Reuters) – Ethiopian police have arrested five more people suspected of plotting suicide bombings during Ethiopia’s World Cup qualifying match against Nigeria in October, security officials said on Thursday. The planned attack failed when two Somali accidentally blew themselves up a few kilometres (miles) from Addis Ababa Stadium where soccer fans were gathering….
The top United Nations envoy in Somalia has strongly condemned the attack on a medical convoy outside Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing at least six people. “Somalia, still struggling to build up its health services, relies on the goodwill of NGOs [non-governmental organizations] and medical personnel who work in incredibly difficult conditions to save Somali lives,”…
At least 500 people, most of them soldiers, have been killed in South Sudan since Sunday, a senior government official said, as an ethnic rivalry threatened to tear apart the world’s newest country. The clashes apparently are pitting soldiers from the majority Dinka tribe of President Salva Kiir against those from ousted vice president Riek…
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Suspected armed Islamic militants on Wednesday ambushed a convoy carrying doctors near the Somali capital, killing six people, three of them Syrian doctors who were in the country giving medical assistance, officials said Wednesday. Capt. Mohamed Hussein, a senior Somali police commander, said the convoy came under attack in a semi-forested…
The Scaneagle unmanned aerial system (UAS) was launched from the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Cardigan Bay in the Gulf and flew to a height of up to 19,500ft. The UAS was then brought back by a pilot on the ship using remote controls after it had acted as an eye in the sky over the horizon….
Hargeisa deputy mayor (Councillor Abulaziz Mohamed Hashi ), who is at present in official visit to UK, has all concepts and successful qualities to become a future Leader. Today December 18, 2013, he will meet and address the Diasporas here in London with regard all the issues in general in Somali-land local governments and in…
This week a delegation from Somali-land government officials including minsters and the first lady has paid visit to salaxley to deliver an ambulance donated by emirates Red Crescent to Somali-land. The ambulance being donated by friendly country and not from Somali-land government, the delivery of the ambulance should have been delivered in normal protocol, which…
Training of Somali soldiers by the EU will be shifted from Uganda to Somalia early next year, with an improvement in the security climate there, the EU said in a statement Tuesday. The EU Training Mission in Somalia (EUTM Somalia), launched in early 2010, has so far trained 3,600 Somali troops, mainly at a camp…
KHASAB, Oman: Charcoal from Somalia, which was banned nearly two years ago by the United Nations, is still making its way to markets in the Middle East, frustrating international efforts to cut off a major moneymaker for Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab militants in the Horn of Africa nation. UN inspectors in recent weeks have sent letters to…
Yussuf Shafie admits it wasn’t easy being among the first Somali immigrants to arrive in Burnsville’s schools. “It wasn’t as diverse as it is today, I’ll tell you that. It was hard to communicate with peers and stuff.” But now that there’s a “huge Somali population” in the area, he says, things are going swimmingly…