Mogadishu-Feb. 9th,2012; The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has announced that it will be spending over $4.5 million on a series of projects meant...
Muqdishu, Feb 08, 2012 ( WDN) Ugu yaraan inta la ogyahay toban qof ayaa ku dhintay qarax loo adeegsaday gaari walxaha qarxa laga soo buuxshay, oo galabta lagu bar tilmameedsaday goob maqayaad lagu shaaho ah oo ku
At least 10 people have been killed and more than 20 people injured when a car bomb exploded near a cafe in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, police say.
A police ...
A Government decision to cancel the last census results for eight districts has been quashed. High Court Judge, Justice Mohamed Warsame, ruled on Tuesday ...
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2012 (PRNewswire) -- After a successful partnership during last season's, Spring/Summer 2012 runway show, IMAN Cosmetics is proud to announce their collaboration with Somali design duo, Mataano...
At least 13 Al-Shabaab fighters have been killed including a top commander in the latest battle in the small town of Dalayat, North East of Badhade, a key transit ...
WASHINGTON — A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialized, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over ...
Fifty Britons in Somalia are among an increasing number of overseas fighters who could herald a new wave of international terrorism, a leading British security thinktank has warned. They reflect the growing appeal...
Somalia President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has announced the government's plan to establish 100 schools in the capital Mogadishu. President Ahmed said...
Muqdisho, February 7, 2012 - Ra’iisul Wasaaraha Soomaaliya Dr Abdiweli Mohamed Ali ayaa maanta dib ugu soo laabtay Caasimadda dalka ee Muqdisho ka dib ...
An EU study shows Finland's Somali community still faces a great deal of discrimination. To improve the situation Finnish Somalis are coming together....
An Eden Prairie High School graduate pleaded guilty Monday to providing material support to Al-Shabab, a Somali group designated as a terrorist organization...
GRAND RAPIDS -- After coming here from Somalia in 1996, Ahmed Sheikh Mohamed found the U.S. to be the land of opportunity. He had a grocery store, sent his kids to college and took a $15,000 family vacation to Saudi Arabia.The trouble is, the government says it all came at taxpayers’ expense.
Minneapolis, February 07, 2012 (Reuters) - An Ohio man pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court in Minnesota to US charges of helping raise money for al Shabaab...
The news that malaria kills almost twice as many people a year as previously believed — not 655,000 but a staggering 1.2 million — is only the latest evidence...
The UK could face a growing threat from "lone wolf" terrorists returning from fighting overseas in the next few years, a think tank has warned.
The Royal United Services Institute estimates about 50 Britons are fighting with ....
Mogadishu: 07th February, 2012 - The Somali Ministry of Information,
Posts and Telecommunications started the process of distributing 6,000 hand-held radios ...
MOGADISHU, Feb. 7, 2012 (Xinhua) -- The Turkish ambassador to Somalia on Tuesday strongly dismissed the Islamist group Al-Shabaab's claim that Turkish ..
YORK —— There were times after Yasmeen Amer began wearing a hijab that she felt conflicted and even self-conscious. She wondered how her Tabb High classmates would react to the scarf and attire traditionally worn by practicing Muslim women as a form of modesty. ...
There is an unprecedented build-up of military force in Somalia. African Union peacekeepers are set to double to more than 17,000 while Kenya and Ethiopia ...
Camp Lemonnier, established in 2003 as the home of the Pentagon’s Combined Joint Task Force/Horn of Africa, was described by US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta
A country which has suffered for many years of turmoil, unrest, separation, devastation and divide within its people and has been littered with violence, deaths, wars and now a horrific drought, which has affected the nation. ...
Two Jamestown people charged with murder are scheduled to go on trial today in Stutsman County District Court. Leron Howard and Janelle Cave are charged ...
Somalia has started a major operation to remove tens of thousands of people who have been squatting in government buildings in the capital. Mogadishu's mayor told the BBC that alternative housing was not being provided,...
Kenyan troops in Somalia say they are eyeing Kismayu Port following reports of retreat by Al Shabaab militants from the island. Reports indicated the Kenya Defence
February 5, 2012 - MOHAMED Harun Mohamoud came to Sheffield from Somalia ten years ago after being blinded when a landmine exploded in his face while working for the United Nations. At the age of 26, he was looking
Toronto, Jan 04, 2012 -The Cedar Sinai Centre houses two institutions; one being the Canadian Institute for Nurse Advancement Inc. and the Youth and Senoir Centres.
It all started when she first saw Benazir Bhutto, the eleventh Prime Minister of Pakistan. Fatuma Gedi Ali, then a young girl, admired Bhutto’s achievements and wanted to see something similar happen in her remote
Iconoclastic and contraversial Somali free verse poet and peace activist Born in Somalia, Togane was educated by Mennonite missionaries in his home country,
The Kenya Defence Forces are claiming their biggest victory yet in their sixteen week of stay in Somalia. The forces say on Friday evening, they captured two towns, Huusingo and Badhadhe, that were important to Al Shab
UNITED NATIONS — A United Nations Security Council effort to end the violence in Syria collapsed in acrimony with a double veto by Russia and China on Saturday, hours after the Syrian military attacked the city of Homs
Daily Nation, Feb 04, 2012 - Visiting British Foreign Secretary William Hague has expressed satisfaction with the Amisom-led military mission in Somalia that has
KHARTOUM, Feb 04, 2012 (Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Friday tensions with South Sudan over oil transit payments could lead to war, stepping up the rhetoric in a row over crude reserves
The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ) has won a tender to build a 200-bed hospital in Somalia. Nine companies competed for the tender.
K'naan, the Somali-born rapper who lives in New York, said his motive for asking Romney to stop using "Wavin' Flag," an international hit in 2009, was purely political. He first learned from fans that Romney had played...
The Somali education minister said Thursday that Turkey’s offer to educate 400 Somali students is an important opportunity for the youth of his famine ...
Barnaamij ka waramaya weerarada is-qarxinta ah, taariikhdooda iyo goorta ay dalka Somaliya soo gaareen. Barnaamijka waxa marti ku ah Rashiid Axmed Taabe oo horay uga tirsanaa ciidanka Maraykanka, haddana DKMG
After over seven years of litigation, which has featured two appeals, including one that went all the way to the Supreme Court, and travel to six countries ranging from the U.S. to Djibouti to Somaliland, with stops in Italy, England, and Switzerland - our case against General Mohamed Samantar is...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 2 – A former senior Administration Police officer has been arrested in Garissa for alleged involvement in training Al Shabaab recruits...
Hashim Yonis was born in Somalia. He and his family were forced to flee his native land and live in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya because of a civil war when he was young. He eventually wound up in Minnesota, where he attended middle school, high school and college.
Six young people, from Afghanistan, Colombia, Djibouti and Somalia, spent this week visiting Parklands residents and shovelling coal to raise money for a trust ...
"My family? They've got used to it, over the years," said Matt Baugh - the first British ambassador to Somalia in 21 years. "There's a degree of concern, and a...
The rapper K’Naan has threatened to take legal action against the Mitt Romney campaign for using the song “Wavin’ Flag” during his victory speech after the Florida primary this week. The Canadian rapper – who was born in ...
Nairobi, 3 February, 2012 – The combination of the massive scale‐up in humanitarian assistance and
an exceptional harvest have helped to improve the humanitarian...
NAIROBI, Kenya — The United Nations said Friday that Somalia’s famine is over, but the world body’s Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued ...
A key town in southern Somalia has been captured by Kenyan troops and government forces from Islamist militants, Kenya's army says.
Badhadhe - some 180km south of Kismayo - fell after heavy fighting, according to local residents.
The fall of the inland town is a major loss to al-Shabab ..
the current issue of the most authoritative and fastest growing Muslim newspaper in Kenya. Among the topics covered in this edition are CNN multi choice Africa Journalist 2011 winner - Fatuma Noor; ...
William Hague has called for a stepping up of the fight against Somali-based terrorism as he became the first British foreign secretary to visit the war-torn state for ...
William Hague has warned more action is needed to tackle the terrorist threat from Somalia as he became the first British Foreign Secretary to visit the strife-torn African nation for 20 years.
Mr Hague said dealing with militant Islamists who have made the country their base "matters a lot"...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s lawmakers met in a low-ceilinged basement, below the bombed-out, roofless shell of the old chamber, guarded by African Union...
HARGEISA, 2 February 2012 (IRIN) - The self-declared Republic of Somaliland is grappling with high child and maternal mortality rates, malnutrition and inadequate medical personnel, health officials told IRIN.
If you've ever listened closely to K'naan's music, you'll note that the Somalia-born rapper paints pictures of the harsh reality of his upbringing in a war-torn country, so it's no wonder then that he's taken issue with Mitt Romney...
By some measures, the ad-hoc alliance among Ethiopia, Kenya, and the African Union has come close to defeating the terrorist group al Shabaab. But a military victory ...
Rome - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Wednesday asked his Somali counterpart, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, to help secure the release of an Italian ...
Thousands of Somali American in State of Minnesota welcomed the birth of the Khatumo State of Somalia, On Saturday, January 28th, 2012. All segment of the community gathered at Convention Center of Minneapolis...
Moscow, February 1, 2012 - The Ukrainian authorities should immediately stop police harassment and threats against Somali asylum seekers held at the Zhuravychi...
The worst moments in the siege of Dammaj came in late November and early December of last year. During those weeks, the villagers in this little-visited, extraordinarily pious settlement in the northwest corner of Yemen had...
A Kenya Army officer who played a leading role at the military parade during the promulgation of the new Constitution has died in action in Somalia. ...
MANAMA, Bahrain, Jan. 31, 2012 (PRNewswire-USNewswire) --Yesterday, Bahrain signed a $1.5 million deal to provide a teachers' institute for Somalia, ...
They’ve done it again. This time the notorious retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin was invited to speak at the annual National Prayer Breakfast Service at the U.S....
Mogadishu, Feb 01, 2012 (AA) - Turkish ambassador in Somali capital of Mogadishu has said that students from famine-stricken Somalia would come to Turkey for education. Ambassador Cemalettin Kani Torun held a press ...
Salaasa, Jan. 31, 2011 (WDN) - Illaa 5 qof, oo laba ka mid ahi ay ahaayen dad isa soo miidaamiyay ayaa ku dhintay, laba kalena way ku dhaawacmen, ka dib markii ...
MOGADISHU, Jan 31, 2012 (AFP) – At least two people were killed on Tuesday when a suicide bomber attacked the house of a senior militia commander in the ...
Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal is under fire after asking Republican House members to pray for President Barack Obama’s death. O’Neal made the request ...
The lack of a boundary agreement between Kenya and Somalia and the continuing instability in the latter country is likely to delay Kenya’s quest to add 150 additional nautical miles to its territorial waters in ...
Poul Thisted, a Danish aid worker held hostage in Somalia for three months, has returned to Denmark.
He and his American colleague Jessica Buchanan were...
The UK has called for a stronger international approach to tackle the root causes of the problems in Somalia. The country has been without a central government ...
A few hours in Mogadishu is all it takes to make you understand, with a jolt, just how little space the human body needs to survive. Across a narrow seafront road, ...
Witnesses in Somalia say columns of Ethiopian troops have crossed into the country and are marching toward key al-Shabab strongholds, apparently opening a new military front against the Islamist militant group.
OSLO, Norway - Two men were found guilty Monday of involvement in an al-Qaida plot to attack a Danish newspaper that caricturerd the Prophet Muhammad, ....
Somalia is one of the last places you’d find most U.S. investors. The war-ravaged country hasn’t had a functioning central government in 21 years, since the fall...
Before a meeting with a Somali women's group Tuesday in Eden Prairie, Ellis handed out fans, plastic junior deputy badges and wristbands to members, introducing himself as they waited for some latecomers. Cultural ...
January 25, 2012: US commandos (navy SEALS) flew into Somalia and rescued two foreign aid workers (an American and a Dane) who had been kidnapped three ...
After more than 20 years since the fall of Somalia's national government in 1991, experts gathered to engage in discussions on ways to improve and rebuild the...
Britain may put on trial and jail Somali pirates in the United Kingdom if its citizens are attacked at sea, but the government's priority is to help Somalia boost its...
The IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government held its 20th Extra-Ordinary Summit Meeting in Addis Ababa on 27th January 2012 under the Chairmanship of H.E. Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Chairperson of the IGAD Assembly.
Turkish Airlines initially announced last month plans to launch twice daily service to Mogadishu in Somalia with Boeing 737-900ER equipment from Jan-2012.
Gunmen have killed a journalist in Somalia in unclear circumstances in one of the countries reputed to be among the worst places for journalists to work in. ...
of illegal immigrants who entered Greece through its border with Turkey. ... from different countries – Algeria, Somalia and the Palestinian Authority. ...
MOMBASA, Kenya, Jan 29, 2012 ( AP) — Kenyan police say they have arrested an imam after they found a cache of weapons in his house.
The chief of police for the coastal
KHARTOUM, Jan 29, 2012 (Reuters) - Rebels in Sudan's oil-producing border state of South Kordofan said on Sunday they were holding Chinese workers for their own
It was perhaps one of the high points of my career – terrifying and intriguing as it turned out – but sticking it out with the military while on duty in Somalia was an
amazing experience.
You only live once as they say unless ...
Mogadishu, Jan 29, 2012 (WDN) - Over hundred well armed Al Shabab soldiers and their commanding officers just surrendered to the Federal government. Witnesses
Beled Weyne, Jan 29, 2012 (WDN) – An Ethiopian army vehicle travelling near Beled Weyne’s big bridge was destroyed early this morning by roadside landmine.
Military spokesman Colonel Cyrus Oguna in a weekly briefing to the press said an inquiry into the deaths of the high ranking officials have commenced. "The death of
ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- The London Conference on Somalia, scheduled for Feb. 23, should define commitments in support of peace process of Somalia,
WASHINGTON, Jan 28, 2012 (AP) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S. in advance of the successful Navy SEAL ...
Five people have been killed and several families displaced in the clashes between two communities in Moyale. The clashes started on Thursday and continued through
A small Dutch city less than 20 kilometres from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport has become the hub of Europe's sales of khat, a plant chewed for its stimulant qualities,
CAIRO — The resentments of many young political activists toward the Muslim Brotherhood spilled into a public spat on Friday as some demonstrators who came out to mark the first anniversary of the country’s revolution ...
Libya, Jan 28, 2012 ( AFP) -
At least 15 Somali migrants were killed and 40 left missing after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya this week, the Somali
NAIROBI, Kenya — At a ceremony in Mogadishu this week to mark the relocation of the UN's top diplomat for Somalia to the capital, the country's hierarchy was made ...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The African Union today opened its Chinese-built headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a towering $200-million complex that has been called "China's gift to Africa."
The government has appealed to the international community for support in tackling insecurity in refugee camps. While a special team to beef up security ...
The names of illustrious independent and state grammar schools may always appear near the top of exam league tables, but it is schools such as Uxbridge High in west London that are really top of the class.
COLUMBUS, Ohio Jan 27, 2012 (AP) — Somalia's numerous problems, from piracy to humanitarian suffering to receiving money from overseas immigrants, are ...
PDF- UK Chapter cordially invites you to take part in a Somali community consultation event organized
to discuss the publicized items of the agenda for the upcoming London Somali Conference on 23rd Feb 2012.
Jessica Buchanan was reunited with her joyous husband and father yesterday — as her inner circle revealed how they kept her kidnapping secret to avoid raising ...
At least eight people have been killed after troops from the self-declared republic of Somaliland launched an attack on local militiamen in the Buhodle district, Press TV reports.
The conflict erupted on Thursday as ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Pirates moved an American hostage at least three times in 24 hours and threatened Thursday to kill him after U.S. Navy SEALs rescued an...
Raadraa, (RW) Waraysi aanu yeelanay madaxweynaha Galmudug Maxamed Axmed Caalin oo ka waramaya hawlgalkii ay ciidamada Maraykanku ku soo furteen laba qof oo loo haystay madax furasho deegaanka Camaara ee
The British government is holding a conference on the future of Somalia next month. In the last 20 years the east African country has suffered enormously – in ...
The UK could become a hub for smuggling the herbal stimulant khat, European police and politicians have warned. The Netherlands is the latest country. to outlaw the sale
The Hollywood star, 59, was recently filming in Turkish city Istanbul and became fascinated with the Muslim faith during his stay. Speaking to The Sun, he said: "The Call to Prayer happens five times a day and for the first week
Somalia-born British international track athlete Mo Farah knew something had to change if he was to become world champion. So he made the decision to move ...
WASHINGTON — An austere Pentagon outpost in the hardscrabble desert on the Horn of Africa proved serendipitously ideal as a launching pad for Tuesday’s commando...
Somali pirates have started to cut off their hostages' limbs in a bid to extract even greater ransoms from the owners of the ships they capture. The horrific new tactic was used last Friday on the Vietnamese captain of a ship being held in the Somali pirate lair of Haradhere.
Two foreign aid workers kidnapped in Somalia three months ago have been freed in a rare US military raid there. Speaking on ABC's Good Morning America, US Vice...
US military forces have freed an American and a Danish hostage after a gun battle with pirates during a nighttime helicopter raid in Somalia. Nine pirates were killed during the rescue operation by US special forces, ...
"How are you going to make money in a country that doesn't even exist?" That was probably the question that many people had at the back of their minds when...
Barnaamijka Raadraac ee todobaadkan waxa aannu ku soo qaadanayanaa waraysi aannu la yeelanay Cismaan Xasan oo ah madaxa xidhiidhka dibedda ee maamulka Khaatumo ee dhawaan lagaga dhawaaqay magaalada Taleex. Halkaas oo ay shir wadatashi ah ku qabsadeen beelaha degaanka SSC.
Mogadishu Jan 24, 2012 (Reuters) - An al-Shabaab fighter rammed a minibus loaded with explosives into a government building in central Somalia used by troops ...
A Sessions court is scheduled to frame charges against 120 Somali nationals, who are alleged to be pirates, on January 31. The accused, currently lodged at Taloja Jail,..
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan 24, 2012 (AP) — The U.N.'s special representative to Somalia is moving his office to Mogadishu for the first time in 17 years. ...
It was six months ago that famine was declared in Somalia. The steady flow of refugees already fleeing conflict was joined by a torrent of new asylum seekers
Mogadishu, 24 January 2012 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Ambassador Augustine P. Mahiga today moved the office of the SRSG back to Mogadishu after an absence of 17 years.
Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets .
A Somali national accused of defiling a seven-year-old girl and seriously bruising her private parts has a case to answer, a Nakuru court has ruled. Senior resident
TORONTO
Jan 24, 2012 (CP)
— The Harper government has wanted the navy to play a bigger role in battling Somali pirates in the waters off East Africa, but has ...
Filled with heart and humor, Hamilton’s play is a window into her personal experience of how the Somali migration to Maine changed her life. The drama workshopped at the Emerging Artist Theater’s “One Woman Standing” ...
Radio Wardheer, Jan. 23, 2012 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah qaxootiga Soomaaliyeed ee ku jira xerada Dhadhaab oo Kenya sheegtay in ay ku celin doonto Soomaaliya; Ciidamada Kenya in ay..
Muqdisho, January 23, 2012----Ra'iisul Wasaaraha Soomaaliya Dr Abdiweli Mohamed Ali ayaa maanta xafiiskiisa ku qaabilay Matt Baugh oo ah ergeyga dalka Britayn...
Before he released a video declaring war against Kenya on behalf of Somalia militant group Al-Shabaab, few Kenyans had heard of Sheikh Ahmed Iman Ali. ...
WASHINGTON - Shortly before the December holidays, an olive-skinned construction worker showed up to his job to find two holes drilled into his toolbox with wires ...
A 10-year-old Bloomington girl walked into the emergency room at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital eight hours after she disappeared Sunday near Pillsbury Avenue S. and Lake Street W. in Minneapolis, police said. Namo Abdinur Ahmed, who reappeared at about 6 p.m., was not hurt and no foul ...
MOGADISHU Jan 23, 2012 (AFP) — Pirates are behind the kidnapping of a foreign hostage in central Somalia, a local official said Sunday, with witnesses ...
“This is not fair. It’s not fair to single out one community. The lifeline for so many innocent people depends on the money we send,” said Abdulaziz Sugule, the former chairman of SAMSA (Somali American Money Service Association)...
The decision by Kenya to join African Union Mission in Somalia is an opportunity for the frontline states to harmonise their disparate interests in Somalia.
Johannesburg, January 22, 2012 (WRW) – Elections held throughout sub-Saharan Africa in 2011 signaled a growing formal commitment to democratic rule, but Africa’s leaders deployed violence and curtailed rights
NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 22 – The government says it will revoke refugee status of Somali’s found to have links with the Al Shabaab militant group, particularly...
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan 22, 2012 (AP) —A U.S. drone strike killed a British al Qaeda official fighting alongside insurgents in Somalia, officials said. ...
MOGADISHU, Jan 22, 2012 (AFP) – Somali transitional government forces on Saturday vowed to rid Mogadishu of all “violent elements,” a day after a major offensive..
Toronto- The dramatic entry of multi-talented, young Somali-Canadian singer Amaal Nuux into the performing arts arena has generated a great deal of enthusiasm within the Canadian musical landscape.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan 21, 2012 (AP) — Gunmen kidnapped an American man in the northern Somali town of Galkayo on Saturday, officials said, the same day
Erica Gingerelli’s flower shop was lucky to get a piece of the action when Adam Sandler and the rest of the cast and crew of “Grown Ups” came to Southborough in
Yemen’s Parliament approved immunity on Saturday to free President Ali Abdullah Saleh from prosecution, following through on a requirement in a deal for him to give up power. The lawmakers extended the legislation
Muqdisho an 21, 2011 ( WDN) Sarkaal sare oo ka tirsanaa ururka Al-Qaacidda, ayaa lagu dilay duqeyn ka dhacdey duleedka magaalada Muqdisho galinkii dambe ee
Raadiyo Wardheer, Jan. 21, 2012 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ciidamada AMISOM oo sheegay in ay guulo ka soo hooyeen dagaal ay ku qaadeen
Haji Hassan Mustaf is a wholesaler selling imported clothes at Eastleigh’s Garissa Lodge. He gets his clothes from China and Dubai, often travelling there to buy the clothing items himself. But it has not been business as usual
Heavy fighting has broken out in Somalia's capital with African Union peacekeepers encountering resistance as they pushed to Mogadishu's outskirts for the first time, the latest move in an offensive against Islamist
BEIRUT, Lebanon — More than a year after a young Tunisian set himself on fire and touched off revolutions throughout the Arab world, self-immolation, symbolic of
WASHINGTON Jan 21, 2012 (AP) — The CIA's top lawyer never approved sending a veteran agency officer to New York, where he helped set up police spying ....
We are writing to you to share with you our position on the upcoming London Conference. We welcome that the British government by hosting this International Conference has bravely decided to actively engage ....
In Somalia 97 junior police officers are undergoing a refresher training programme in Mogadishu in an effort to buttress law and order after peace is secured in the country.
MOGADISHU, Somalia – I have just returned from a strangely enchanting city. It is a capital city with a chaotic charm, a coastal city with white beaches nearby and stunning architecture everywhere. You might be surprised ...
Pre-emptive strikes by naval forces, the deployment of private armed guards and protective measures by ships helped to almost halve the number of successful...
Pro-government forces have launched a major dawn offensive in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, to seize territory from al-Shabab Islamist militants. Some 1,000 soldiers backed up by 20 tanks captured three al-Shabab bases,....
It is reported that a powerful blast rocked the centre of Beled Weyne the provincial capital of Hiiraan region. The initial information so far received by WardheerNews
Somalia’s militant Islamic group Al-Shabaab reportedly took over the running of an independent broadcaster and abducted a reporter in a new round of restrictions ...
London, January 17, 2012 ( HRW) – The Ethiopian government under its “villagization” program is forcibly relocating approximately 70,000 indigenous people from the
Recently, my attention was brought to a ‘legal memorial’ published by wardheerNews.com,
which was purportedly written by unnamed ‘expert’ representing People’s Republic
of Chinaand submitted to
NORFOLK, Va. — The Somali ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday that a man from his country charged with piracy should be tried in Somalia instead ...
Sharif Farah said supporting his family in Somalia — including seven young children — inspires him to get up and go to work every day. But he said his motivation ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, – Al Shabaab rebels have released photographs on Twitter of two Kenyans, whom they say they kidnapped a fortnight ago during a raid at a police post in Wajir. They identified the two as 30-year-old District ...
Somalia is hardly an attractive destination, but a former US soldier has just joined the ranks of foreigners trying to join the al Shabaab Islamist group. ...
Last Friday about 100 people protested at a Minneapolis Wells Fargo branch that refuses to help Somali money transfers. Several banks are refusing to work ..
Aegean International Health Federation (ESAFED) member - six Turkish doctors are training Somali doctors who received medical education in Sudan but did not ....
New York, January 17, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the deteriorating press conditions in the semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland after this weekend's detention of 21 journalists protesting...
DHAROOR, Somalia - Canadian oil and gas exploration company Africa Oil Corp. began drilling an exploratory well in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on...
Saadia Khan was innocently standing at a bus stop when a woman drove by and flipped her off. Khan, a fifth-year biology major, moved to the United States from Pakistan with her parents when she was 2 years old. But, there have been times where she felt she was not welcome in the country she has ...
The Dutch government recently announced that it will ban the use of khat, a narcotic leaf widely chewed in the Horn of Africa and Yemen.
I've written about khat before. I've spent four months in Ethiopia, especially ...
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 18 (BERNAMA- NNN-ENA) -- African Union (AU) Commission Chairman Jean Ping has voiced concern over the lingering dispute in Somalia's ...
NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 15, 2012 (AP) — The October al-Qaida video shows a light-skinned man handing out food to families displaced by famine in Somalia. But the masked man is not Somali, or even African — ...
St. Paul, Minn. — The Mayo Clinic released a study today that identifies hepatitis C as a cause of rising liver cancer rates. Researchers say with that information, more people can be screened for hepatitis C and prevent cancer. The finding may have a particular impact on the Somali community. ...
In Green Bay, Wis., the local school district is making an effort to accommodate Muslim students' prayer schedules without interfering with classes or t...
A militant Islamist group in Somalia that has declared its allegiance to al-Qa'ida is using a young British man to file video propaganda from the front lines of the country's civil war to try to draw English-speaking...
RWD, Jan. 01, 2012 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah magaalada Beled Weyne oo lagu soo rogay bandoo ka dib markii ay shalay la ...
San Diego , Desember 20, 2011- Shir si wacan loo soo agaasimay oo ay iska kaashadeen dadweynaha Soomaaaliyeed iyo hay'adaha amniga ee magaalada San Diego, ayaa lagu qabtay rugta East African Community and
Four Muslim students at Keller Elementary School in Green Bay quietly slip out of class or recess each day at about noon to pray in a tiny alcove of the school. For five to 10 minutes, the group of girls is not distracted...
JOHANNESBURG — Tens of millions of dollars in diamond profits — perhaps more — are being secretly extracted from state-owned mines in eastern Zimbabwe, bypassing
Waa hees wacan oo loo qaaday dabbaaldegii loo sameeyay degmada cusub ee Tulli oo dhawaan loo magacaabay degmo. Waxa ka mid aha ereyada heesta: Waa hiil Alle hadday heshay halkii ay higsanaysay, hambalyaannu
To 15-year-old Abrar Salad of St. Louis Park, the novel reflected familiar faces and placessumming up and tying together the many stories of Somalis in Minneapolis," she said
