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A conference on the formation of an administrative region for Somalia’s central regions opened in Nairobi Wednesday (October 23rd) with representatives from Galgadud, Galmadug, and Himan and Heeb attending, UN-funded Radio Bar-Kulan reported. Somali lawmakers and representatives from the international community also attended the conference, which was opened by Somalia’s Ambassador to Kenya Mohamed Ali…
Kayd Somali Arts and Culture, in collaboration with Redsea-online Cultural Foundation and other partners, are proud to present Somali Week Festival 2013. This year’s festival will run from Friday 18th to Sunday 27th October at Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London, E2 6HG. Somali Week Festival is an integral part of Black History Month and offers…
Two Minneapolis police officers came down to Faribault Thursday to film a dual-language video addressing Somali-American community relations, public safety concerns and quality of life issues in Faribault. Officers Mohamed Abdullahi and Abdiwahab Ali – the first Somali officers in the state — patrol the dense Somali-populated Cedar/Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis. Chief Andy Bohlen invited…
Kenyan authorities recently alleged that Khattab al-Kene, a Somali-American, was one of several gunmen who attacked shoppers at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya last month. Al-Shabaab, a Somali-based militant group that has attracted dozens of American recruits over the years, claimed responsibility for the assault that left at least 68 people dead and…
The United Nations in partnership with the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) and the Somaliland Journalists Association (SOLJA) on Wednesday launched Somalia Media Awards, which is the first of its kind in the Horn of Africa Nation since the collapse of its state. The Somali Media Award 2013 Organisers invited journalists to submit stories…
A delegation from Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State concluded its visit in Somaliland on Sunday 20 October 2013 where they made discussions and set workable directions for future cooperation including on security. The delegation made discussions with highest officials of a number of Somaliland institutions including the Somaliland Office of Presidency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry…
OSLO – Norway’s domestic intelligence service tried to prevent one of the suspected gunmen in the Nairobi mall attack from joining Somali militants more than three years ago, but failed to talk him out of it, the agency’s chief said in an interview Wednesday. The man has been identified in Kenya as Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow,…
A famous Swedish bandy coach and Somali refugees are out on thin ice, and aiming for Siberia and the bandy world championship. With little time to practice, they are hoping for at least some goals. The sound of sharp steel blades scratching the skating rink’s ice pierces the chill air as players on wobbly legs…
Sources affiliated with militant group al-Shabab have identified one of the attackers in the deadly Kenya mall assualt as Yahya Ahmed Osman — also known as “Arab” — from the town of Buloburte in Somalia’s Hiran region. Sources told VOA’s Somali Service that Osman appears to be the same attacker that Kenyan officials named as…
Turkana County: Three suspects of Somali origin were arrested in an oil exploration site in Turkana South district following a tip by members of the public. The suspects were held inside Tullow Oil compound in Lokichar, after detectives and security officers stormed and pounced on them. Police declined to give details of the suspects, who…
Ali Omar Mohamed fled Somalia’s civil war two years ago to seek a better life in South Africa. Now after being robbed at gunpoint and seeing scores of his countrymen murdered in xenophobic violence, he’s ready to leave. Mohamed, a 21-year-old shopkeeper, is part of a growing tide of immigrants who say they prefer returning…
COCHRAN — When it comes to piracy, Middle Georgia State College student Ali Samatar has a unique perspective. It’s a perspective he developed after enduring civil war in Somalia and four years in a Kenyan refugee camp. It’s a perspective he came to after immigrating to America, where he went from having nothing to working…
OSLO: Oslo has launched a global hunt for two Norwegian teenage girls of Somali origin who have allegedly traveled to Syria to support the rebels in the war-torn country, police said Monday. Police said in a statement the teenagers, aged 16 and 19, were reported missing Friday and had reportedly been spotted near the Syrian…
THE UK is being flooded with huge quantities of mind-bending drug khat as dealers rush to cash in before it is banned. And users predict chaos on the streets when the stimulant – which is popular in Somali communities – is made illegal next year. Last week we watched as 160,000 sticks of khat were…
NAIROBI – Security camera footage of soldiers appearing to loot goods during last month’s Nairobi shopping mall siege has infuriated Kenyans who had initially praised troops for their courage in battling the Somali attackers. A front page headline over the weekend in Kenya’s biggest selling newspaper The Nation read “Shame of soldiers looting Westgate” under…
BRISTOL’S first Somali-born councillor has called on the city to unite to combat terrorism. Hibaq Jama’s plea came after a video emerged claiming Muslims from Bristol had been recruited by Somali militant group al-Shabab. The Islamist terror group hit the headlines last month when they besieged the Westgate shopping centre in Kenya – leaving 67…
MOGADISHU – At least 15 people died Saturday in a suicide attack in a restaurant in the central Somali town of Beledweyne claimed by the Shebab, a local police chief said. “The death toll we have so far is 15 and the injured are more than that number,” Isaq Ali Abdi, police chief of the…
Somalia Prime Minister His Excellency Abdi Farah Shirdon today condemned a terrorist attack against a reastaurant in Beledweyn town, in the Hiiraan region of Somalia that has killed a number of Somalis and left many others wounded. “I am deeply saddened by the death of innocent people in Beledweyn after terrorists attacked a restaurant in…
The first case of a child being trafficked to Britain in order to have their organs harvested has been uncovered. The unnamed girl was brought to the UK from Somalia with the intention of removing her organs and selling them on to those desperate for a transplant. Child protection charities warned that the case was…
CHARRED pieces of bodies, enough to fill two boxes, have been recovered from a Kenyan shopping mall, the scene of a deadly terrorist attack. Four AK-47 rifles believed to have been used by the attackers were also recovered. A security official said it is possible the remains are of the attackers but it would not…