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For a year and a half, captured Kenyans Yesse Mule and Fredrick Wainaina spent most of their time bound in chains with their eyes blindfolded. “Our days were basically dark days. Black days. Days without colour. You wake up and you can’t see any colour. Everything was in shadows,” Mr Mule recalled in an interview…
NAIROBI – A group of Somali youth living in Kenya wants to encourage Somalians living in the diaspora to preserve their cultural roots. The group is based in Eastleigh and hopes to achieve its goal through their film production company called Eastleighwood. It’s hoped the company will attain the same success as Bollywood and Nollywood….
(GIN)—In a good week, reports from the Horn of Africa couldn’t be more upbeat. “Somalia is a good news story for the region,” declared Johnnie Carson, U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs last October, “for the region, for the international community, but most especially for the people of Somalia itself.” This year, however,…
August 1, 2013: The peacekeeping force now consists of 4,040 Kenyan, 6,223 Ugandan, 5,432 Burundian, 850 Sierra Leonean and 999 Djiboutian troops. There are also several thousand Ethiopian troops who constantly move back and forth across the Somali border as needed. There are a few hundred other foreign military and paramilitary personnel in Somalia, but…
If your only information about Toronto’s Somali community comes from the news media, you could easily come to believe that the community is comprised entirely of drug dealing, gun toting thugs. A visit to Dabagoye, a Somali restaurant located a few streets over from the infamous Rexdale house where Rob Ford posed in a photo…
A Somali health organization announced Monday that members of the Twin Cities Somali community would gather Friday to express a “vote of no confidence” for Minnesota Health Commissioner Edward Ehlinger. The press conference is being organized by Isuroon—a nonprofit founded by Hopkins resident Fartun Weli that provides health education and advocacy for the local Somali…
The role of women in peacebuilding has long been underestimated in Somaliland. Since the country’s collapse and the emergence of Somaliland, citizens have been plagued by protracted political insecurity and militarised violence. The prolonged conflict produced gendered outcomes in Somaliland, with particular shifts enabling Somali women to participate in activities – such as conflict resolution…
His Excellency Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon emphasised today the government’s “unshakeable” commitment to press freedom and advised against a rush to judgement before the Media Law was sent to parliament. “There has been a good deal of overexcited reporting about the Media Law in recent days, much of it ill-informed,” the Prime Minister said….
Kismanyo, a small city with a very small population strategically rests on the peninsula of the Indian Ocean coast in the lower juba state in Southern Somalia. Kismanyo corridor, which was built in the early 1960s for Somali-navies, today acts as a key business causeway between Somalia, the gulf and the east African countries. After…
Washington, July 09, 2013 (SDN) — Twenty years after the U.S. military’s “Black Hawk Down” disaster, the Obama administration is slowly stepping up relations with Somalia even though security requires American officials to be sheltered behind blast walls and unable to see nearly any of the chaotic country. The high caution in Somalia sharply displays the frustrating…
Mogadishu, July 09, 2013 (SDN) — A car has exploded inside the main market in the Somali capital after a hand grenade was thrown into the vehicle, police have told the BBC. It was carrying police officials, four of whom were wounded, he said. It happened during one of the busiest shopping days, on the eve of…
Hargeisa, July 09, 2013 (SDN) — Somaliland’s minister of religious affairs and endowment Sheikh Khalil has said that the holy month of Ramadan will start tomorrow following the non- sighting of the moon as at yesterday. Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. It is an annual and month-long spiritual exercise decreed for all matured Muslim faithful…
There is already technicians, doctors and dentists from Syria working and residing big cities and towns in Somaliland. In the spirit of the Ramadan Somaliland Government and people should encourage Syrian refugee to come and live in Somaliland without any restriction and build up their lives in Somaliland. The UN’s refugee agency has said that…
Mogadishu, July 08 2013 (SDN) – A plane carrying the Somali president has been forced to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu after one of its engines reportedly caught fire. A spokesman for President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said it was not clear why the engine stopped working. The president was not hurt but firefighters scrambled to put…
Hargeisa 27June (SDN) the European Union has launched the rehabilitation project for the Hargeisa Group Hospital to improve access to health services for Hargeisa’s rapidly growing population. Together with its partners, Terre Solidali and United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), the EU will increase the efficiency, quality and sustainability of Somaliland’s main hospital that…
Hargeisa, June 21, 2013 (SDN) — After Mukhtar Bashe of Hawd region saw his penalty hit the post in a dramatic penalty shootout as Marodijeh region beat Hawd region on today to win the Somaliland football regional tournament for the third time. The match finished 0-0. SDN Hargeisa
Beijing, June 21, 2013 (SDN) — The United Nations has vowed to stand by Somalia, following Wednesday’s deadly attack on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital. The bomb and gun attack by al-Shabab militants killed at least 21 people, including seven attackers and several people working for the United Nations Development Program. Speaking in…
Nairobi, June 21, 2013 (SDN) — Nairobi – A United Nations staff member killed in an Islamist insurgent attack in Somalia was named on Friday as Rita Muchucha, a Kenyan citizen. Praising an “open, friendly and fun-loving colleague, tragically lost to us in the prime of her life”, the UN Development Programme announced her death…
New York, June 21, 2013 (SDN) — UK Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant held a press stakeout on June 20 to assert again that since people living in the Malvinas / Falkland Islands don’t want to be part of Argentina, they shouldn’t have to. Inner City Press asked Lyall Grant to contrast that position with the…
Hargeisa, June 21, 2013 (SDN) —A senior Somaliland politician has condemned the tragic terror attack on a UN compound in Mogadishu, but says it strengthens claims for secession from Somalia. Mohamed Omar, the breakaway state’s foreign minister, says that Wednesday’s bomb-and-ground-assault by Al Shabaab should prompt the international community to rethink its vision for a…