President’s Working Visit to the US
Washington DC, USA 20.09.2013 -The president of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud currently in a working visit to USA met with the Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of...
View ArticleOman plays key role in solving piracy problem
Patrolling by navies has put Somali pirates under pressureBy Sunil K. VaidyaRear Admiral Anil Kumar Chawla, the Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet of the Indian Navy on board INS Mysore. Image:...
View ArticleMan sentenced in credit card scheme
A Somali man from Minneapolis was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Nashville on Friday for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud immediately after he pleaded guilty to the charge.Yahya Jamal Ahmed,...
View ArticleWarka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka maanta waxaad ku maqli doontaan dhegeystayaal: dagaallo ka dhacay Shabeelaha Hoose, madaxweyne Xasan iyo R/wasaare Saacid oo kulmay iyo warar kale.Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso: Warka Raadiyo...
View ArticleSomali war expertise and superior combat kits to boost anti-terror campaign
By Rashid AbdiADDISA file photo taken on March 2, 2012 shows Ethiopian soldiers displaying weapons left behind by Shebab militias at their former base in Baido, which was taken over from Shebab rebels...
View ArticleSomali Youth Association spreads its wings to new location
The Somali Youth Association of Toronto is opening a satellite office at United Way Toronto’s Rexdale Community Hub.By: Leslie FerencSomali Youth Association of Toronto basketball league players shoot...
View ArticleWhite Widow Samantha Lewthwaite ‘sighting’: Police searching remote area of...
By Nick OwensIt is feared the 29-year-old could be on her way to Yemen where she has spent time with leading members of Al-QaidaWanted: Samantha LewthwaiteDetective searching for White Widow Samantha...
View ArticleKhaatumo will prevail
By Ibrahim Ahmed Musse-QaadiriyeThe representatives of Khaatumo people are no longer be selected by Puntland or Somaliland, but higher consul of Dhulbahante elders. Ahmed-karaash has betrayed his...
View ArticleSomalia’s Go-2-School Initiative: Curriculum Challenges
By A/Rasaq H. Nuurre (Xuubey)IntroductionIn the Federal Republic of Somalia (FRS), there are efforts to restore the country’s shattered education system after decades of civil wars that leveled most of...
View ArticleICC: Africa Should Reject ‘Free Pass’ for Leaders
Johannesburg – African governments should reject special exemptions for sitting officials before the International Criminal Court (ICC), African organizations and international organizations with a...
View ArticleHead of Somail delegation to 3rd Africa-Arab Summit arrives in Kuwait
KUWAIT, (KUNA) — Head of the Somali delegation to the 3rd Africa-Arab Summit of November 19-20, Parliament Speaker Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari, arrived in Kuwait on Monday.Jawari was received at the...
View ArticleExposing smuggler routes across the Somalia-Kenya border
By Nima Elbagir, CNNKenya (CNN) – More than a month after Somali militants from Al-Shabaab massacred 67 people at a mall in Nairobi, a Kenyan rapid response team has now been deployed to the...
View ArticleWarka Raadiyo Wradheer
Warka waxaad ku maqli doontaan dhegeystayaal: abaabulka mooshin ka dhan ah R/wasaare Saacid oo ka socda Muqdisho, dagaallo mar kale maanta ka dhacay Shabeelaha Hoose iyo warar kale.Warka oo dhan...
View ArticleSomali immigrants in U.S. provided support to al-Qaeda affiliate
Jim KouriFBI/USDoJThree Somali immigrants in San Diego, Calif., were sentenced on Monday afternoon by a federal judge for their involvement in providing material support to the al-Qaeda-linked, Somali...
View ArticleNewport elects Wales’ first British-Somali councillor
AMID calls for more to be done to encourage people from ethnic minority backgrounds to become councillors in Wales, last month voters in one part of Newport elected a man thought to be Wales’ first...
View ArticleLENA MOI: The sad history of Kenya’s second First Lady
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Lena Tungo Moi strode Kenya’s political scene with her visibility as the vice-president’s wife.Then in the middle of the 1970s, she faded away from the public arena never...
View ArticleCrossing Swords: Siad Barre and Professor Said S. Samatar
By Hassan M. Abukar“You have to know the past to understand the present.” Carl Sagan. It was either in 1984 or 1985 that Siad Barre’s regime was weakening. It was a period not far removed from...
View Article1 year down: American’s quest to walk from Ethiopia to Chile reveals beauty,...
NAIROBI, Kenya — In Paul Salopek’s first year of his trek across the globe, the reporter walked alongside his camels for days in Ethiopia without seeing glass or bricks or any other signs of modern...
View ArticleWarka Raadiyo Wardheer
Warka maanta ee Raadiyo Wardheer waxaad ku maqli doontaan: Madaxweyne xasan oo sheegay in ay ahayd arrin fulinimo qaraxii ka dhacay Baladweyn, Xukuumadda federaalaka oo jawaab ka bixisay hadal dhawaan...
View ArticleIn repressive Ethiopia, new ‘Blue Party’ struggles to offer a choice
With 1,000 Ethiopian laborers being sent home daily from Saudi Arabia, the opposition party is channeling popular outrage. By William DavisonADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIAEthiopian workers walk with their...
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