By Mike Puckett ________ Ku soodhawada magalada Louisville, Sahra iyo goyskeeda! These are the Somali words with which Beargrass and Kentucky Refugee Ministries greeted Sahra Mohammed Ali and her six children at the Louisville International Airport late on the evening of February 21 (English translation: Welcome to Louisville, Sahra and family!). Twenty adults and youth...
April 24, 2025
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Somalia: Protect Displaced People at Risk
Nairobi, March 27, 2013 ( WRW)– Members of state security forces and armed groups have raped, beaten, and otherwise abused displaced Somalis who have arrived in Somalia’s capital fleeing famine and armed conflict since 2011, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The new Somali government should urgently improve the protection and security of...
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Gunmen kill female journalist in Somalia
Gunmen kill female journalist in Somalia; 3 media workers killed so far in 2013 ____________ MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A media colleague says that gunmen in Somalia have shot and killed a female Somali journalist. Abdikarim Ahmed Bulhan, the director of Abudwak radio in central Somalia, said Monday that two men armed with pistols...
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Somali terror-support suspect pleads guilty in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a Somali national has pleaded guilty in New York to charges of providing material support to terrorist groups. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced the unsealing Monday of the 2011 plea by Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame (AH’-mehd ahb-dool-kuh-DEER’ wahr-SAH’-mee). According to court documents, Warsame helped train members of the Somalia-based terrorist...
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Farewell to the body while honoring the immortal spirit of a great African oracle
Just yesterday, when I was provoked to write my latest piece “Getting Our Perspective Right on Our Fellow Africans,” I quoted extensively from a great work by a great genius of Africa, Chinua Achebe. At the time, I had no idea that Achebe was inches away from death. Also my hunch tells me that I...
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Ignorance is the Enemy of Love: A Book Review
Faarax Maxamed Jaamac Cawl was the most improbable writer before he authored “Aqoondarro waa u nacab jacayl” and, subsequently, two other books. He was a technical man, having been educated at what used to be the Trade School in Hargeisa, and later at the Chelsea College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering in London from 1959 to...
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Why does Somalia have the highest rates of child mortality in the world?
Because of revitalized and sustained global efforts to improve child survival, the world has succeeded in reducing global child mortality from 12 million in 1990 to 6.9 million in 2011. This success delighted some global child health leaders such as the director of the UNICEF, Anthony Lake. What is disheartening, however, is that the...
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Tacsi: Inaa Lillaahi wa inaa ilayhi raajicuun
Dhamaan bahda WardheerNews waxay tacsi u dirayaan iyaga oo ka xun ehelkii iyo qaraabadii geeridii naxdinta lahayd ee dhawaan ku timid marxuum Abiib X. Jaamac oo ku geeriyooday magaalada Charlotte oo dalka Maraykanka. Waxaanu Ilaah uga beryaynaa in marxuuka uu janadii Farduusa ka waraabiyo, ehelkii iyo qaarabadii uu ka baxay samir iyo iimaan ka siiyo. Aamiin Maamulka WardheerNews
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An Open Letter to President Hassan Sh. Mohamoud: A re-joinder
Ismail Haji Warsame ________________ Said Faadi’s recent open letter to Somalia’s incumbent President, H.E. Hassan Sh Mohamud, was quite articulate, relatively fair and consistent with current political developments in Somalia and its nascent, renewed foreign relations. I, however, take some critical exceptions to the credit Mr. Faadi has accorded to the President regarding the latter’s recent foreign trips and high profile symbolic receptions...
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Sareedo
Aden Hassan ______________ Sareedo is the name of this poetic piece. Sareedo, is a noun so appealing in its pristine beauty, so simple in its originality. One might be tempted to ask: what is in a name? For Sareedo, there is a lot in it, and some more. This is a piece of poetry –...