Tag: News in English

Hassan Ali is a 23-year-old Somali who survived gun battles and poverty in his youth in his native country before deciding in 2009 to embark on Tahrib, the perilous journey from Africa to the Italian island of Lampedusa. Thousands of Somalis make this trip every year, and this month it made headlines after a boat…

South African President Jacob Zuma criticized interventions by the U.S. and other Western nations in African conflicts that he says have left countries such as Libya worse off. In an interview with Paris-based France 24 today, Zuma raised concerns about the U.S. raid on a Somali town earlier this month to capture a leader of…

The attack by the Somali radical Islamist group Al-Shabab on a shopping mall in Kenya last month has refocused attention on the threat from militant groups in Africa. These groups operate across the north of the continent, and have adopted various media techniques to spread their message to a wider audience. The Al-Shabab attack came…

Somali men and women aged 18 and older are invited to attend a special information and recruitment session being hosted by the Toronto police next month. The Somali General Information/PREP Session will take place on Saturday, Nov. 2 at the Toronto Police College in Etobicoke at 70 Birmingham St. The information session offers potential candidates…

An argument involving several people at a west Salt Lake City motel ended with gunfire and the arrest of a fugitive. Salt Lake City police said no one was injured during the altercation at the Garden Inn, 154 W. 600 South, about 4 p.m. Wednesday. Police said the suspects were guests at the motel, and…

A prominent British Muslim commentator is being protected by police following concerns over his safety following the release of a video by Somali-based terror group, al-Shabaab, which singled out several British Muslims for having criticised jihadists in the aftermath of the Woolwich murder. Mohammed Ansar, a filmmaker and journalist who has spoken out against extremism…

Mandera, Kenya: Police in Mandera County apprehended a suspected Somali militia and recovered two firearms with rounds of ammunition in two separate incidents. According to County Police Commander Rono Bunei, the 45-year-old militia was spotted by the public at Garba-Goley location, 18km from Mandera town on Tuesday evening. They then alerted the police. “The lone…

LONDON – A British bank could soon be cutting a financial lifeline for millions of Somalis. Barclays is poised to sever its ties to Dahabshiil, one of the Somali expatriate community’s biggest money transfer services, as part of a larger reorganization of its business. Barring a successful last-minute court challenge, experts say the move will…

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned a recently uncovered scam aimed at defrauding displaced people in Mogadishu and urges residents of the Somali capital to beware of the illegal scheme. WFP has learned individuals posing as WFP employees have been selling fake ration cards to internally displaced people (IDPs) in Mogadishu, claiming these…

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Oct. 16 (UPI) — Somalia’s  Western-backed government is talking to major international oil companies like  Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP about resuming exploration programs  abandoned when the East African state collapsed into anarchy in 1991. On the face of it, that could be an extraordinarily hard sell since Somalia  remains highly…

The man accused of beating his elderly neighbor to death said he did so because he was being ostracized by the Somali community, according to murder charges filed Monday. Bashir Yusuf Jama, 63, of Minneapolis is charged with second-degree intentional murder in the Oct. 8 beating death of 86-year-old Jama Adan Mohamed, whose body was…

On Tuesday morning, hundreds of Somali Muslims gathered in Faribault to spend time with friends and family, eat specially prepared food, pray and celebrate Eid-al-Adha. “The celebration is for the pilgrimage to Mecca, which ended today, and to remember Abraham’s sacrifice,” said Bashir Omar, a paraprofessional in the Faribault School District. Not to be confused…

North America’s only museum of Somali culture and artifacts is set for a grand opening this weekend in Minneapolis. Mogadishu used to have the world’s only Somali Cultural History Museum, but its contents have been scattered across the globe during the upheaval of civil conflict over the past two decades. Now the first Somali Artifact…

For the moment, a portion of mainstream media is fixated on two stories pertaining to the Minneapolis Somali community: the reaction to last month’s terrorist attack in Kenya and the meteoric rise to stardom of Somali actors in the movie “Captain Phillips.” Both of these stories present some aspect of Somali-American life, but they fail…

Belgium has arrested a Somali pirate after luring him to the country with fake promises of making a documentary about his life. Prosecutors in Belgium said Monday they arrested Mohamed Abdi Hassan, also known as “Afweyne,” at Brussels airport after he disembarked from a flight from Nairobi. They say he was arrested along with his…

Washington, Oct 13, 2013 (SDN) -In the following statement issued on Oct. 8, 2013, the US Secretary Linda Thomas-Greenfield of Bureau of African Affairs emphasizes that the intention of the United States to deal with Somaliland through Somalia as a regional state after dual-track approach concluded with the successful completion of the Djibouti Peace Process and…

Last month, when news broke about the deadly attack on a Kenya mall by Somalia’s al-Shabab group, one place in the United States braced itself for media attention: Minnesota. That’s because the state houses America’s largest Somali community and, in recent years, al-Shabab has recruited small groups of young Somali men from Minnesota. Many Somalis…