Tag: News in English

FOLEY — The company that owns a building in a Sauk Rapids industrial park and the man who had hoped to open a school there catering to Somali children have sued the city after it denied them a conditional use permit for the proposed Hashiro Academy. The school would have been for Somali preschool children…

Somali’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Nur Ga’al said  Somali government is grateful for Turkey’s mediation betweenSomalia and Somaliland. ” Somali government is committed to keep theSomali people united and will do what ever it takes to achieve that. We also are very grateful with Turkish government for facilitating the talks between Somali government and Somaliland,” Ga’al said in the AA…

October 06, 2013(NAIROBI) – The Kenyan military on Saturday named, Abu Baara al-Sudani, a Sudanese national, leader of the terrorists who struck the Westgate mall in  Nairobi on September 21, killing 67 people and injuring 175. The Somali militant group, Al-Shabaab claimed the attack. Kenyan authorities released last Saturday a video footage showing four armed…

Kenya’s counterterrorism police unit has released closed circuit television footage showing two men entering a local bank to pay for a car that they say was used to bring the terrorists to Westgate Mall. The two men – one believed to be Kenyan of Somali descent and the other believed to be Somali – were…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For years before Saturday’s unsuccessful raid in Somalia to capture a top al Shabaab militant, Washington had waged a secret law enforcement and spy war against the group, which claimed responsibility for last month’s deadly assault on a Kenyan shopping mall but has little record of targeting the United States. A low-profile…

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – The killings of popular Muslim clerics in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa is strengthening support for Somali militants who massacred at least 67 people in a Nairobi shopping mall two weeks ago, a prominent Islamist said on Saturday. The apparent assassination of Sheikh Ibrahim Omar on Thursday night raised religious tensions…

NAIROBI — At 3 a.m. Sunday, an armed squad from Kenya’s anti-terrorism police unit raided the townhouse of Ubah Abubakar, an American interior designer from Northern Virginia. Firing into the air, the officers broke down the front door and ransacked the place without a warrant. Abubakar and her roommate were taken to a police station…

Al-Shabab’s recruitment of Somali youth in America poses a threat to U.S. security, the director of a Minnesota-based organization told Congress on Thursday. Speaking before a House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mohamed Farah told members that Al Shabab preys on “disenfranchised” Somali youth and that agencies should devote more resources to “eliminate this cancerous ideology.” The…

Mogadishu, Oct 03, 2013 (SDN) –In Nairobi, Kenya the fighting with Somali al Shabaab gunmen in a mall is over and it’s still unclear how many civilians and terrorists were killed. The mall was largely destroyed and many shop owners complain of their goods and furnishings being looted. Soldiers and police are believed responsible for…

Dalsan Radio and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) organized and supported a training program on safety and security for Somali journalists in Somalia. The training which was held on the 21stSeptember 2013 under the implementation of Dalsan Radio and supported by CPJ had an attendance of 32 journalists from different media houses and freelance journalists….

TORONTO – Somali police have arrested a Somali-Canadian for allegedly beheading his four young sons. Omar Hassan’s estranged wife told The Canadian Press early Wednesday that the children, ages 11, 9, 7 and 6 were killed by their father on Monday. Qadra Addawe said Hassan, 60, was a taxi driver in Calgary and had returned…

Kenya’s president told Somalia’s leaders on Tuesday to “put their house in order”, in a sign of frustration at the festering instability in the neighboring country after members of a Somali militant group attacked a Nairobi shopping mall. The al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group said it raided the Westgate center, killing at least 67 people,…

OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird proclaimed the start of a new era in Canada’s ties with Somalia Tuesday, one week after a Somali terrorist group’s brazen attack on a shopping mall in neighbouring Kenya, and 20 years after Canadian soldiers left the country in disgrace. Ties between Canada and Somalia have been practically non-existent…

NAIROBI, Kenya — Illicit ivory, kidnappings, piracy ransoms, smuggled charcoal, extorted payments from aid organizations and even fake charity drives pretending to collect money for the poor — the Shabab militant group has shifted from one illegal business to another, drawing money from East Africa’s underworld to finance attacks like the recent deadly siege at…

Britons must increasingly employ ‘caution’ and ‘permanent vigilance’ with regards to terrorism, David Cameron has said. The prime minister’s comments come in the wake of the mass murder at the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, which is thought to have been perpetrated by Somali terrorist fraction Al-Shabaab. Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday…

Parliament members in Kenya are demanding an investigation into reports senior officials of the administration took no action after being warned of planned terror attacks in Nairobi and Mombasa in September, says legislator Gladys Wanga. Wanga says there is need for a thorough inquiry to determine whether there was a security lapse that enabled terrorists…

TORONTO – The Toronto-born teen seriously hurt in last week’s mall attack in Nairobi arrived in Canada Sunday afternoon for medical treatment that may save her injured leg.     Fardowsa Abdi survived the assault, carried out by members of the Somalia-based militant group al-Shabab, but her leg was so badly injured doctors in Kenya…

As claims of a Maine connection to last weekend’s terrorist attack on a Kenyan shopping mall have become more dubious, voices within the state’s Somali refugee community have grown louder and angrier. They want to know why newspapers, TV stations and politicians so quickly repeated allegations from an obscure Twitter account that Somali-Americans from Maine…

The Prime Ministers of Somalia and Turkey met in Ankara Turkey on Thursday, 26th September 2013.  Present at the meeting were senior cabinet members from both countries and His Excellency Bekir Bozbag, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey. His Excellence Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon extended his Government’s sincere gratitude and appreciation in the brotherly…