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NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — A group of immigrants from Somalia is growing a new life in Maine. The Somali Bantu Community Association of Lewiston is leasing about 3.5 acres from the owners of Intervale Farm in New Gloucester for the growing season. The association is paying through grants. Last fall, Carl and Jan…
Emotions are running high in Kenya after a policeman published photos of a group of men humiliating Somali migrants right under the nose of security forces. Our Observer says they shed light on the treatment meted out to millions of Kenyans of Somali descent living in the country, especially since Kenya became the target of…
NAIROBI— Five men were charged on Thursday in connection with an attack by Somali Islamist gunmen on Garissa University College in northeast Kenya that killed 148 students, the worst militant attack in the east African nation in almost two decades. The assault on Garissa University on April 2, in which gunmen from Somalia’s al-Shabab group…
CAIRO, June 5 (KUNA) — Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Araby called Thursday on all governments, Arab and international organizations, to provide immediate humanitarian aid to Somalia and Djibouti, due to the increased burden and influx of local Somali and Yemeni refugees into the two countries. The remarks were made by Al-Araby during a meeting…
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — “Home Grown: The Somali-American Struggle” looks into the lives of the Somali population in Minnesota. In the second part of this series, WCCO’s Jennifer Lewerenz takes a look at the process of assimilation into the U.S. When Somali migration began in the 1990s, there were three places they went: The United Arab Emirates, South Africa and…
Somalia must put in place a legal framework that guarantees freedom of expression in the country, as well as a moratorium on capital punishment, a United Nations independent expert recommended today, while commending progress accomplished so far. “Somali journalists are often harassed, arrested, censored, even imprisoned, and media organizations are closed down,” underlined Bahame Tom…
A book titled Suomen somalit – Finnish Somalis – has been launched in Finland on Monday May 25th. The book gives an overview about the Somali community’s experiences of living in Finland. It is the first ever book of its kind in Finland. Somali speakers in Finland are the fourth biggest linguistic minority with population of about…
A week of clashes in villages near Somalia’s border with Ethiopia has killed at least 35 people, mostly civilians, officials and traditional elders say. The sources added on Sunday that the clashes erupted between Somali clan militia and members of the Liyu police, an Ethiopian paramilitary unit operating in Ethiopia’s ethnic Somali region. Fighting reportedly started a…
Since independence from France in 1977 this tiny republic at the confluence of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden has turned itself into a regional player with strategic and commercial clout. Not long ago Djibouti was known for little more than French legionnaires, desert and a small ramshackle port. But nowadays this tiny…
On a rainy day in a coffee shop in Minneapolis’ Cedar Riverside neighborhood, Council Member Abdi Warsame sat across from a young man, quizzing him about his quest to become a community service officer with the Metro Transit Police. Warsame has been a mentor to Mubashir Jeilani for years, and now the 19-year-old is a…
PORTLAND — The Portland Police Bureau has sworn in its first Somali-American police officer. Officer Khalid Ibrahim’s swearing-in ceremony Thursday comes less than a year after another local Somali-American, Mohamed Mohamud, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for plotting to bomb a crowded holiday event in Portland’s town square. Mohamud’s arrest in 2010 sent…
MOGADISHU – A leading figure in the Somali-based Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab movement has died in Somalia, the militant group said Thursday. In a death announcement and obituary carried by jihadist media, the Shebab said Sheikh Hassan Abdulahi Turki, known as Hassan Turki, died on Wednesday evening in the Middle Juba region south of the capital Mogadishu….
Bloomberg) — Soma Oil & Gas Holdings Ltd., chaired by former U.K. Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, has proposed a deal with the Somali government that may grant it as much as 90 percent of the country’s prospective oil revenue. A draft production-sharing agreement, obtained by Bloomberg from an official close to the negotiations, sets…
The Minneapolis court is packed with members of the local Somali community here to support one of their own, Abdirahman Yasin Daud (21). His lawyer wants him released from custody while he fights charges of attempting to provide support to a terrorist group. Daud is one of six Somali men from Minnesota, aged 18-21, charged…
Mogadishu, May 28, 2015-The National Union of Somali Journalists welcomes the move by the UN Security Council to adopt a unanimously a resolution calling on member states to fulfill their obligations as regards to the protection of journalists during the armed conflict and makes it a requirement for UN Peacekeeper operations to provide regular reports…
Somaliland authorities have said they will not allow more refugees fleeing Yemen violence inside its territory. Interior Minister said they reached the decision after the international community and United Nations Refugee Agencies failed to help those already in the area. Hundreds of refugees mainly Somalis who fled the country during the height of the civil…
Questions abound over who in Kenya benefited from billions of shillings laundered by two Somali men jailed in Belgium over extortion and supporting sea piracy. The latest United Nations Monitoring Report on Somalia and Eritrea depicts Kenya as a gangsters’ paradise where officials can easily be misled by blue collar criminals to allow high crimes,…
Monday 25, 2015-Jubbaland Diaspora Association supports the people, Parliament and the President of Jubbaland’s decision to condemn the unconstitutional Motion presented by the few Federal Parliamentarians known their relentless efforts to stop the formation of the Federal Governance System, Somali People thought a perfect solution since the Centralized Governance System before 1991 was the cause…
Half way down the dimly lit main hallway of Mogadishu’s Banadir Hospital, a sign indicates the entrance to the delivery ward. It reads: “Women are not dying of diseases we can’t treat. They are dying because societies have yet to make the decision that their lives are worth saving.” Outside, family members of the women…
People afraid to sign petitions. Advocates for the vulnerable censoring themselves. Non-profit organizations muzzled by the fear of retribution. Government spies intimidating activists. It’s not communist China or North Korea where this climate of fear exists — it’s here in Canada, said participants at a Canadian Council for Refugees meeting in Winnipeg Friday. “It takes…