Somali actor star gets hollywood film role
BY GRACE KERONGO Do you remember the Somali-born actor who was also an Oscar award winning contender in last year’s awards? His name is Barkhad Abdi (right). He has just bagged a role in a new...
View ArticleWheelchair user with just €60 in pocket taken to brink of deportation
Somali refugee was taken to airport after day spent in hospital with husband “Hawo” recalls that when she was being taken to the plane, she had “a few belongings, my wheelchair and €60 that my...
View ArticleEthiopia: Remittance Dilemma
After Saudi government decided to deport Ethiopian immigrant flow of remittance shows decline: World Bank report. Few customers at CBE on the process to collect their money sent via a remittance...
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Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah; Wasaaradda Amniga oo ka hadashay Weerrar ismiidaamin ahaa oo shalay galinkii dambe ka dhacay Muqdisho, Taliyaha ciiddanaka ka howlgala goballada Shabeelaha...
View Article7 Shabaab, 2 Somali soldiers killed in Galgala clashes
The militant group has maintained a stronghold in the region for years By Yassin Juma MOGADISHU, At least seven Al-Shabaab fighters and two government soldiers were killed on Monday during an army...
View ArticleDog torturers face 5 years, SR500,000 fine
RIYADH: SAEED AL-KHOTANI INHUMANE: A video grab shows a dog being deliberately run over by heartless boys. The clip of their unspeakable cruelty, that went viral on the social media, was made by one...
View ArticleKenya’s security act threatens refugees
Photo: Ahmed Hassan/IRIN During an April 2014 crackdown, over 350 undocumented Somalis were deported from Kenya and many more were sent to refugee camps NAIROBI/DADAAB, (IRIN) -Human rights groups are...
View ArticleSOME 30,000 GERMANS PROTEST AGAINST ANTI-ISLAM RALLIES
BY DAVID RISING AP Photo/Markus Schreiber BERLIN (AP) — The square around the Cologne Cathedral was plunged into darkness Monday evening after the historical landmark in western Germany shut down its...
View ArticleLand and Property Dispute Undermine Somalia’s National Reconciliation
By Moulid Hujale This Is An Inherited Property, Do Not Buy!” Such warning messages painted in bold on the walls of premises and residential buildings are very common in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu;...
View ArticleEthiopia: Human trafficking and forced labor
US Dept. Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Ethiopia is a source and, to a lesser extent, destination and transit country for men, women, and children who are subjected to forced...
View ArticleThis Woman Wants to Prove That Somalia Is Serious About Democracy
by Mark Hay Fadumo Dayib is an accomplished woman. The 42-year-old mother of four spent 12 years as a healthcare and development specialist with organizations such as the European Union and United...
View ArticleCalgary police identify Rosedale murder victim, search for vehicle in connection
BY DAMIEN WOOD Murad Omar. Photo from Facebook Calgary police identified a Somali man murdered in an alley in the city’s northwest late last week. An autopsy has confirmed the deceased is 23-year-old...
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Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Agaasimaha Idaacadda Shabeelle oo ku eedeeyay qareenkii wariyayaashooda in uu sameeyay wax sharciga ka hor imaanaya, NUSOJ oo sheegtay in ay dhibaata ka dhex...
View Article20 Shabaab fighters killed in Somalia
Two senior Al-Shabaab leaders have reportedly been captured By Yassin Juma MOGADISHU, At least 20 Al-Shabaab militants and five Somali soldiers were killed on Tuesday in fierce fighting that broke out...
View ArticleSomalia’s Shebab militants ‘execute informers’
Somalia’s Shebab militants have executed four people accused of spying for the United States, Ethiopia and the country’s internationally-backed government, officials and witnesses said. The executions...
View ArticleUPDF officer breaks down in court
By EPHRAIM KASOZI & JULIET KIGONGO KAMPALA, A former commander of the UPDF in Somalia under Amisom, Col Hassan Kimbowa, yesterday stunned court when he wept as he pleaded with the Court Martial for...
View ArticleSuspected Islamist car bombing badly injures Somali lecturer
MOGADISHU, A car bomb critically injured a university lecturer in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday and was blamed on Islamist rebels who have promised to keep up attacks even as they have lost...
View Article2,815 convert to Islam in Dubai in 2014
DUBAI, A total of 2,815 people converted to Islam last year in the emirate, the New Muslims Section in Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department has revealed. There were 2,047 female and 768...
View ArticleThat’s an unfortunate name – but houses in ISIS Street in Earlsfield, still...
By SARA MALM How unfortunate! Isis Street used to be associated with an Egyptian goddess, but now, the world knows ISIS as something completely different Since the emergence of the militant jihadist...
View ArticleWarka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan Idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah:Madaxweynaha maamulka Puntland oo ka hadlay dagaalkii Galgalo ee ciiddanka maamulkaasi iyo Shabaab u dhaxeeyay, Ciiddamada Itoobiya ee qaybta ka ah...
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