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French Muslim minister faces racist attacks
French Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. Credit: flickr.com/Benjamin Géminel “Provocation”, “a Moroccan Muslim”, “an Ayatollah”: the appointment of a young Morocco-born woman as France’s...
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Wararka aan diin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Dibadbax ka dhacay degmada Kaxda oo looga cabanaayo ciiddanka Dawladda Soomaaliya, Howl-gal maanta ka dhacay deegaanka Buurweyn ee gobalka Hiiraan, Shabaab oo...
View ArticleSomali militants threaten U.S. attacks to avenge leader’s death
BY ABDI SHEIKH Somali Islamist militants have threatened attacks in east Africa and the United States, warning President Barack Obama he would hear “shocking news” as punishment for a U.S. missile...
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St. Paul’s first female Somali police officer has critics and fans
Kadra Mohamed hands out police badge stickers at a community event attended by Somali families. Mohamed is a community liaison officer in St. Paul, Minn., the first Somali woman on the city’s police...
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Al Shabab’s Latest leader: New Face, Old Tactics
WardheerNews Al-Shabab’s new leader, Ahmed Dirie Abdikarim, did not even wait a day after his selection as the new emir to bomb Mogadishu and kill 12 innocent people. The militant organization...
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Survivor of war-torn Somalia ruled mentally unfit to stand trial for murder
By Mark Russell Shaun Wright who was stabbed to death with a beer bottle in a random killing. A man who grew up in war-ravaged Somalia has been found unfit to stand trial for the murder of a complete...
View ArticleUPDF must deal with indiscipline
A Human Rights Watch report accuses Ugandan and Burundian soldiers on African Union duty in Mogadishu, Somalia, of sexual offences. The report released this week says some African Union Mission in...
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Baby boy born with four arms and four legs recovering well after surgery to...
By Amanda Williams A baby boy born with eight limbs is said to be recovering well after doctors removed his ‘parasitic twin’. Three-month old baby Paul Mukisa was born with four legs and four arms in...
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Salafist patrol sparks new debate on Islam in Germany
Eleven young Salafists in bright orange vests with the words Sharia Police written on the back patrolled the city of Wuppertal last week. Germans are outraged – and wonder how to react. Was it a...
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Wararka aan idiin hayno waxa maanta ka mid ah: Bannaanbax ka dhacay degmada Buula Burde ee gobalka Hiiraan oo looga soo horjeeday Shabaab, Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya oo muddo laba sano ah maanta ay u...
View ArticleWajir lawmakers issue ultimatum over IDs ban
By Jane Goin NAIROBI, Kenya, Wajir North Member of Parliament, Ibrahim Saley has given the Wajir County Commissioner a two-week ultimatum to overturn a decree stopping the issuance of identity cards to...
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Somalia facing increased crises
More than 1 million people in Somalia are facing acute food insecurity, and the situation in the country is beginning to resemble the period prior to the famine in 2011. At that time, the...
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Courtship and Marriage: The Somali Experience in America (Part 9)
By Hassan M. Abukar This is the ninth article in a 10-part series about true stories of Somali men and women and their very blunt assessment of their relationships. The names and locations of the...
View ArticleEthiopian Woman In Drug Peddling
KUWAIT CITY, An Ethiopian woman was arrested in Maidan Hawally area in possession of 8 kilograms of ‘Qat’. According to security sources, when Directorate General for Drug Control (DGDC) received...
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UN cuts compensation for Kenyan troops in Somalia
Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amison) on patrol in Kismayu on October 12, 2013. The UN cut compensation for Kenyan troops fighting Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia...
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Obama’s Strategy for ISIS Hasn’t Gone Great in Somalia or Yemen
By Patrick Brennan Obama gave a speech one can imagine he had been desperately hoping to avoid Tonight, in his highly anticipated speech announcing a strategy to address the Islamic State and the...
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The perception of Islam in a post 9/11 world
By Jarvis DeBerry In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, people run from a collapsing World Trade Center tower in New York. For over a decade after the autumn of 2001, America, with its allies, has been at...
View ArticleAl-Shabaab are at their weakest, so it’s time to talk to them and plan our exit
By Daniel K. Kalinaki This kind of profiteering and indiscipline was always going to be inevitable in such a protracted conflict. It must be brought to an end before it turns the people of Somalia...
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Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah:Ciiddama ka mid ah kuwii ku dhaawacmy dagaalka ay dowladdu ugu magac dartay Badweynta Hindiya oo ka cabanaya daryeel la’aan, Shabaab oo lagu eedeeyay dhac ay ka...
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Supreme Court concerned over safety of Indians held by Somali pirates
SC on Thursday asked the Union government to ensure better coordination with international agencies for securing the release of those Indian citizens. Pronouncing its judgment in a rare Public...
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