Barnaamij xiiso badan oo ka hadlaya budhcad badeedda sababaha dhaliyay iyo dhibaatooynka ay u keentay guud ahaan ganacisga adduunka iyo xaalada Soomaaliya. Barnaamkjan waxa soo jeedinaya Dr. Kapchits
HOBYO, Somalia — Ismail Haji Noor, a local government official, recently arrived in this notorious pirate den with a simple message: we need your help. ...
Radio technician Abdullahi Omar Gedi was killed yesterday in the Garsoor area of Galkayo in Puntland – a semi-autonomous region of Somalia, according...
Mogadishu, Somalia, September 1, 2010 - A high powered UN delegation led by the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, B. Lynn Pascoe arrived in Mogadishu today and met with President Sharif Sh. Ahmed.
NAIROBI, Kenya - The twin-pronged political and peacekeeping approach to ending almost two decades of civil war in Somalia is beginning to pay dividends, ...
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda said Wednesday it is ready to send 10,000 more troops to Somalia if the U.S. provides the funding, a move that would see the ...
Parliamentarians from North Eastern Kenya and other pastoralist communities have threatened to move to court, to push for the nullification of the census results after the cancellation of census results in 8 districts in ...
(CNN) Aug 31, 2010 - At least nine civilians were killed and 25 were injured when roadside bombs hit minibuses in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, according to
Abu Dhabi, 31 August 2010 - The UAE Embassy in Sana’a dispatched a shipment of urgent food assistance donated by the Khalifa bin Zayed Charity Foundation
Panelists talked about the image of Muslims in the U.S. Topics included the controversy surrounding the Islamic Center near Ground Zero in New York City. ...
A group of teenagers in western New York has been accused of harassing members of a mosque by yelling obscenities and insults uring evening prayers for Ramadan,
It is believed that 3 of the victims of today's roadside bomb were young female students returning home from college to break fast during the holy month of Ramadan. ...
Waraysi ay laanta Af Soomaliga ee idaacada VOA la yeelatay C/karim X. Cabdi Buux, oo ka tirsan golaha tifaftirka WardheerNews kuna saabsan Deegaanka, .....
We are, we like to say, a nation of immigrants, a melting pot of cultures, nationalities and races.It's what we, as Americans, do best — absorb and assimilate people
performance of "Somali Pirates" at the Haidian Theater in Beijing, capital city of China. "Somali Pirates," one of the "Happy Dough Twist" comedy series, drew ...
Like many of his friends and family, Mohammad Ahmed Mahmud fled Somalia to escape a future threatened by violence and fighting. So it's heartbreaking and ironic, says his uncle, that the 36-year-old, who delivered pizzas....
OMAHA, Neb. — Federal officials say a JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Nebraska should provide Muslim employees with prayer time and not retaliate...
ADDIS ABABA, August 31, 2010 (Reuters) - More than a quarter of a million Ethiopians are risk from severe flooding next month when heavy rain is expected in the....
ATLANTA — After a suspected arson and reports of gunshots at an Islamic center in Tennessee over the weekend, nearby mosques have hired security guards,
Over the last year, several newspapers have reported that Nhidza, a political activist in Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change opposition party, is dead. But he is alive, and like 3 million other Zimbabweans, he is ...
Raadiyo Wardheer, August 30, 2010 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah magaalada Muqdisho oo maanta mar kale dagaallo dib uga qarxeen. Kuwaas oo socday 8 dii beri ee la soo dhaafay...
Recent years have seen a sharp rise in applications from Somalis living in Finland for family unification. The increase has been sixfold in the past four years,....
NAIROBI, 30 August 2010 (IRIN) - As the latest round of fighting in the Somali capital enters its eighth day, traders and civil society activists warn of food shortages
Japanese, EU and NATO forces cooperated on Sunday to intercept pirates who were preparing to attack ships in the Gulf of Aden, the NATO counter-piracy task force said
Somali refugees who were first resettled in upstate New York before relocating here last fall, they shuffled between the homes of friends willing to put them up, sometimes sharing two- or three-bedroom units....
Mogadishu – Somalia – August 28 2010 - In light of the recent suicide attack at Muna Hotel on 24 August 2010, which claimed the innocent lives of more than 30...
(You Muslims do not have any
right). This was the words of an officer from the terror police unit
responding to queries as to why the security agents had arrested
Muhammad Hamid Suleiman, a Nairobi based travel agent....
Raadiyo Wardheer, August 29, 2010 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah magaalada Muqdisho oo degan kadib markii in dhawaan dagaalo ka socdeen, iyada oo hub uruursi ay ku jiraan
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - Somali militants linked to al-Qaeda briefly asserted control over Mogadishu's most strategic road Saturday, escalating their efforts to
LEWISTON — Paul Poliquin of Paul's Clothing and Shoe Store remembers when the downtown was a shopping destination. The sidewalks were so busy “you literally bumped into someone you knew.” Then came the empty...
LEWISTON — Inside his Somali grocery store, Hussein Ahmed smiles with pride as he talks about becoming a property owner. He bought the lower Lisbon Street building with the familiar teal awning from Paul Dube of...
Aug 29, 2010 - A night of clashes in south Mogadishu killed at least 11 civilians as Islamist insurgents continued whittling away the few areas controlled by
Aug 28, 2010 (AFP)- A helicopter from a Danish warship under NATO operational control foiled a pirate attack Saturday on a merchant vessel in the Gulf of
Kamiliya Shaxaata Zaakhir, waa haweeneey uu qabay Tadros Samaan oo ah Baadariga Kaniisada wadaadka Marku,s ee ku taal Mowas magaalada AlMinya ee dalka Masar. Kamiliya oo 25 jir ah ayaa Islaamnimada aqbashay muddo hal sanno laga joogo laakinse si dhuumaaleysi Muslimad ku aheyd
A Somali man pleaded guilty Friday to piracy-related charges for attacking a U.S. Navy ship in what the defendant said was a case of mistaken identity. Jama....
THE US decision in 2006 to send Ethiopian troops into Somalia in 2006 was one of the stupidest moves in a very stupid decade. This week, some of the chickens
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - The ceiling of the Hotel Muna was splattered with burned flesh and pieces of clothing, the remains of two Islamist suicide bombers who killed 31
(CNN), August 28, 2010 - A Somali official denied reports that Ethiopian troops had crossed into the country to help battle Islamist rebels trying to take control
The killing of at least 31 people, including six parliamentarians, in the Somali capital Mogadishu has sent shock waves in the region. Though violence is nothing new
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan arrived in Kenya on Friday to participate in a ceremony inaugurating the country’s newly minted constitution, flouting
The trial of a man charged with killing a cook at a North Side restaurant ended in a mistrial today after it was revealed that someone had filed lawsuits...
Nadifa Mohamed’s ambitious first novel tells the story of a Somali orphan’s odyssey from Yemen to Djibouti, onward to Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt, Palestine, Marseille, Hamburg and Wales — and ultimately to an epiphany in London. Toward the end of this trek, the hero meets up with an old friend, ...
“Around 1,000 soldiers are heading in the direction of Beledehawa and Elwak,” a source in Dolo told Addis Neger online. Beledhawa and Elwak are towns along...
The US decision in 2006 to send Ethiopian troops into Somalia in 2006 was one of the stupidest moves in a very stupid decade. This week, some of the chickens ...
According to the Annual Financial Report released by the office of the Prime Minister today, Somalia's budget in the fiscal year 2009 was just over $11 million.
SAN'A, Yemen — A former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden warned of an escalation in fighting between al-Qaeda and Yemeni authorities and predicted the government...
The knife-weilding Somali refugeee who attempted to hijack a flight from Blenheim to Christchurch will serve at least six years in prison. Justice Christine French sentenced Asha Ali Abdille, 36, to nine years imprisonment with a non-parole period of six years for trying to hijack an aircraft more....
"Al-Shabaab's repeated killing of innocent civilians shows a disturbing disregard for human life," Ward said. "Just last week I was in Djibouti where I participated
And a couple of items from Geneva which I would like to draw your attention to. One is from the World Health Organization (WHO) that says that, between 20 March...
The past vies with the future and poetry with prose on the longlist of the 2010 Guardian first book award, which was announced today. The 10 debut titles in the running for the £10,000 award range from dystopian fiction to popular psychology, and span the globe from Somalia to Finland, Kashmir ...
The killing of at least 31 people, including six parliamentarians, in the Somali capital Mogadishu has sent shock waves in the region. Though violence is nothing
Authorities say a New York City cab driver is recovering after being brutally stabbed by a passenger who first demanded, "Are you Muslim?" The attacks occurred as New York is in the midst of a contentious debate....
The west is easily distracted. Just as the war in Iraq diverted attention from Afghanistan, allowing the Taliban to regroup and consolidate its hold ...
They come from such places as Bhutan, Myanmar and Somalia, all fleeing some form of strife and all looking for a way to fit in. A rural Oregon dairy in need of workers offers an opportunity.
Groups supporting the Park51 Islamic Cultural Center, which most Americans say shouldn't be built as planned some 300 yards from ground zero, announced...
For more than two decades, Abdelhamid Shaari has been lobbying a succession of governments in Milan for permission to build a mosque for his congregant....
Somali community grapples with dangerous stretch of road in City HeightsFor years, the short stretch of University Avenue between Winona Avenue and 52nd Street has been the site of dozens of car accidents and injuries....
The escalating war for control of what is left of Somalia, between the al-Shabab extremists and the African Union puppet "transitional federal government"...
Conjure, for a moment, a place just steps from City Hall but a world apart. Salaam. Yes, that is the fragrance of strong coffee in the air, of sweet figs and tart lemons, of pastries that remind buyers of childhoods in ...
WASHINGTON—U.S. officials believe al Qaeda in Yemen is now collaborating more closely with allies in Pakistan and Somalia to plot attacks against the U.S., spurring the prospect that the administration....
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Fighting in Somalia's capital flared for a third straight day Wednesday, killing eight people and pushing the week's death toll past...
An experienced radio journalist was killed during crossfire between Islamist rebels and government forces in Somalia's capital, a journalist rights group said. ...
They came to power as Somalia’s best hope for peace, a government composed of traditional Somali elders, clan leaders, and businessmen under the leadership of a religious scholar, President Sheikh Sharif ..
Madaxweynaha xukuumadda kmg ah ee Soomaaliya Sh. Shariif Sh. Axmed oo tacsi u diray dadkii ay waxyeeladu ka soo gaartay weerarkii ismiidaminta ahaa ee loo geystay Hoteel Muna.Waxa kale oo uu cambaareeyay
Shir guud oo ay ka soo qayb galeen jaaliyadaha beesha Geri Koombe ee ka soo jeeda gobolka Soomaalida ee Itoobiya ayaa lagu qabtay magaalada Seattle,...
Islamist gunmen have stormed a hotel close to Somalia's presidential palace and killed at least 32 people, including six MPs.The hotel attack comes on the second day of heavy fighting between al-Shabab and troops of the
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali insurgents disguised in government military uniforms stormed a Mogadishu hotel on Tuesday and killed at least 30 people, including
two men dressed in government military uniforms stormed a Mogadishu hotel on Tuesday and killed at least 16 people, including 8 lawmakers. The
situation is still developing, where the casualties could be more
MOGADISHU, August 24, 2010 (AFP) – At least 29 Somali civilians were killed in fighting between insurgents and government troops backed by African Union
You don't have to be prejudiced against Islam to believe, as many Americans do, that the area around Ground Zero is a sacred place. But sadly, in an election...
Stewart wondered: what distance from Ground Zero is it acceptable to build a mosque? He then showed clips of pundits saying everything from 5 blocks, to 20 blocks, to Woody Allen's bulding on the "Upper West Side. ...
WASHINGTON, DC August 24, 2010 - International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on August 21, two Somali Muslim men attacked a well-known Somali church ...
As dusk fell on Asmara, the wide, tree-lined sidewalks of Harnet Avenue began to fill with pedestrians. It was a lovely spring Saturday, cool with a light breeze, and Eritreans of all ages strolled beneath a canopy of....
Raadiyo Wardheer, August 23, 2010 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah ciidamada la dagaalanka argagixisada dalka Kenya oo xiray 7 qof oo u kala dhashay Kenya & Tanzania. Kuwaas oo lagu ...
Police in the Kenyan coastal town of Kwale have unearthed a major human trafficking syndicate involving Somali nationals who had been hidden at a holding ground....
MURFREESBORO, TENN. -- For more than 30 years, the Muslim community in this Nashville suburb has worshipped quietly in a variety of makeshift spaces....
Ethiopia, Djibouti’s biggest port client, expects a boom in its import and export activities as Djibouti gets ready to construct a new port at Tadjoura to ...
MAYFIELD, Ky. -- A group of Somali natives is petitioning to open a new mosque in a western Kentucky town where the opposition isn't religious - it's parking based. ...
The Export and Import (EXIM) Bank of China has reached an agreement with the Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) to finance its Light Railway Network project in Addis Ababa. ....
Raadiyo Wardheer, August 22, 2010 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah Zenawi oo mar kale sheegay in la taageero xukuumadda kmg ah; Ahlu Sunnah oo awaamiir cusub ku soo rogay ...
Mogadishu - Men are forced to grow beards. Women can't leave home without a male relative. Music, movies and watching sports on TV are banned. Limbs are chopped
MOGADISHU August 21, 2010 (Reuters) - Eleven insurgent militiamen were killed by their own bombs when they went off prematurely in Somalia's capital, the
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The camels know the drill by heart. Just after dawn, they file on their own, always in groups of 12, into metal stalls for milking. Workers attach automated pumps. The milk flows into a system of chilled pipes that empty into a sealed metal vat.
Craig Monteilh has gone from villain to ally in the Muslim community. Ever since Monteilh revealed that the FBI directed him to spy on local Muslims, ...
It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be. And as a boy in Mogadishu, Somalia, although art plainly encapsulated the world as I knew it, what I really wanted to...
The bid to build a $100 million mosque and Islamic center two blocks from ground zero has ensnared a president and engrossed a nation. But New York isn't the only city debating a new mosque. Here are four of the most ...
Raadiyo Wardheer, August 21, 2010 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah dawlada Ruusha oo sheegtay in ay tageeri doonto ciidamada nabad ilaalinta ee AMISOM oo hadda la rabo in la...
Mogadishu, August 21, 2010 ( AFP) - Blasts, possibly linked to the premature explosion of a car bomb, destroyed a house in the Somali capital used by Al-Qaeda
WASHINGTON — Some counterterrorism experts say the anti-Muslim sentiment that has saturated the airwaves and blogs in the debate over plans for an Islamic
Who would have thought that the most successful joke in the history of Comment is free could become a template for far right hate groups in the US? Yet Ariane Sherine's atheist bus ads now have a grim...
When my parents decided to leave their war-ravaged homeland of Afghanistan in the 1980s, they had the option of migrating to a number of different countries...
Last week, Barack Obama, the US president, communicated his support for the building of a mosque two blocks away from Ground Zero in New York, saying: "Muslims have the same right to practice their religion...
Mo Farah finally broke David Moorcroft's 28-year-old 5,000m British record last night, crossing the line in 12min 57.94sec to finish in fifth place at the Diamond League event in Zurich.
The concerns and agenda of Somalia's al-Shabab militia are very much rooted in local politics. However, its rise to prominence is tied to decisions taken ...
In a barn in Mount Airy, Ali Manguera pinned a 69-pound goat to the concrete floor, pointed the animal's head toward Mecca -- some 7,000 miles east of..
Kenya overpowered Somalia 6-0 as Sudan held hosts Eritrea to a 1-all draw in Group A fixtures at the Council of East and Central Africa Football Association...
With a glimpse into such an important historical anecdote, when can easily be carried away by nostalgic fervor and a yearning for a never diminished past. The video reconstructs and reminisces a golden, heroic epoch in...
Raadiyo Wardheer, August 19, 2010 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid maleeshiyaad ka tirsan kuwa Maxamed Siciid Atam ayaa dagaallo la galay ciidamada Puntland; Kooxda Al Shabaab ee ka ....
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 19, 2010 (AP) — The northeastern tip of Somalia has been a peaceful haven in an often violent nation, but a powerful warlord and a series...
As many as 100 more refugees, including people from Iraq, Somalia, Burundi and Bhutanese from Nepal, will arrive in Grand Forks in the coming year. ...
NAIROBI, 19 August 2010 (IRIN) - Bombs, mortar shells and bullets have displaced more than a million people in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Halima Mo’alim Abikar is not one of them. The 50-year-old human...
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 19, 2010 (AP) — Kenya secretly sent four terrorism suspects to Uganda after the World Cup bomb blasts in violation of Kenyan law,...
THE African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) needs as many as 40,000 troops to get the job done. The stark assessment was made Tuesday by the Force...
OTTAWA — An Ottawa man who's to be deported to his native Somalia — a country he left two decades ago — because of his criminality says the punishment amounts to a death sentence. ...
What actions are the most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungary, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful and to...
KAMPALA — The suspected mastermind of the July 11 bomb attacks in Kampala said on Thursday he was motivated by "rage against the Americans", as he was presented to journalists by the Ugandan authorities.Issa Ahmed Ruyima said he was a member of Somalia's Islamist insurgent group Shebab
Taking time out of their busy tour schedules, Somali-Canadian hip-hop star K'naan and Canadian indie rockers Broken Social Scene are headlining the Big ...
Indonesian Muslims have been praying in the wrong direction for months, facing Somalia when they should have been facing Saudi Arabia, the country's highest religious authority said today.
He is pragmatic and uncomplaining as he explains how he manages to subsist beyond the fringes of society, hand to mouth, on meals of bread and tuna bought with Red Cross food vouchers. He has noticed, however, that...
HEBAH AHMED assessed the weather before she stepped out of her minivan. “It’s windy,” she said with a sigh, tucking a loose bit of hair into her scarf. Her younger sister, Sarah, watched out the window as dust devils danced...
In the Somali capital Mogadishu people love their football, especially the World Cup. So imagine the frustration of some soccer fans who aren’t allowed to watch..
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
