Faced with al-Shabaab attacks, soldiers trained by the Ugandan military need not only guns but better organisation to safeguard Somalia Jessica Hatcher in Mogadishu Captain Muhudun Ahmed Muhamud has faced the same weaponry – rocket-propelled grenades – that brought down two Black Hawk helicopters during the US special forces assault on Bakara market in Mogadishu...
Hassan Sheik Mohamud President of Somalia, 57 By Paul Kagame Emerging from the presidential contest of September 2012, Somalia’s Hassan Sheik Mohamud is discarding destructive clan-based politics in favor of anticorruption measures and national reconciliation as well as embracing vital security-sector and economic reforms. A 17,000-strong African Union force finally helped to restore security in Somalia,...
Dhammaan dadka macagyadoodu hoos ku qorani waxay halkan tacsi tiiraanyo leh uga dirayaan qoyskii eheladii iyo asxaabtii uu ka baxay Alle naxariistii janno ha ka waraabiyee Xildhibaan Cabdillaahi Sheekh Xasan Aw Cismaan oo ka mid ahaa xildhibaanada golaha guurtida Somalialnd oo maalintii Salaasada ee taariikhdu ahayd 16/04/2013 ku geeriyooday magaalada Hargeysa. Waxay eebbe marxuumka uga...
A video circulating on the Internet that some suggested showed a Canadian militant in Somalia is, in fact, an innocuous video message from a Somali man living in the United States. Somali sources had circulated the video suggesting it was proof that a Somali-Canadian was part of a deadly attack in Mogadishu this past weekend....
(Reuters) – A suspected al Shabaab militant was killed on Thursday trying to plant a bomb in a busy district of the Somali capital, a police official said, after the Islamist group threatened more attacks following two deadly assaults this week. Western and Somali officials are concerned that al Shabaab, who were driven out of...
Three men were forcibly removed from an annual culture festival in Saudi Arabia and subsequently sent back to the UAE after it was deemed that women could find them irresistible. By Romil Patel The delegates from the United Arab Emirates were in attendance at the Jenadrivah Heritage & Culture Festival in Riyadh, the Saudi capital,...
(WASHINGTON, D.C) — The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today welcomed a 20-year jail sentence for the man who set fire to a Toledo, Ohio, mosque in September 2012 because he wanted to avenge the killings of American soldiers overseas. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Randolph Linn, 52, of...
Muqdisho, Abril 17, 2013 (WDN)- Dowladda Soomaaliya, ayaa heshiis lagu dhowrayo deegaanka, laguna yareynaayo jaridda geedaha dhuxusha laga sameeyo, la saxiixatay QM, iyadoo xuska maalinta dhirta ee 17-ka ee Apbil-na Muqdisho lagu qabtay. Heshiiska ay Soomaaliya la gashay QM oo ku kacaya $23-Miliyan, ayay madaxda hay’adaha FAO iyo WFP wad saxiixeen madaxweyne Xasan Sheekh, kadib...
Nayroobi, Abril 17, 2013 (WDN)- Ciiddamo ka tirsan booliska Soomaaliya, oo seddex bil tababar uga socday dalka Jabuuti, ayaa shalay galinkii dambe halkaasi loogu soo gaba gabeeyay tababarkaas. Ciiddamadan oo gaaraya ku dhawaad 200 oo askari, ayaa waxay ahaayeen kuwa duruus dheeraad ah ku qaadanayay dalka Jabuuti, waxaana munaasabaddii xiritaanka tababarka ka qeyb galay taliyayaasha...
WALAWEYN, Somalia – Outside a dilapidated two-story building, Abdi Ali says goodbye to his veiled girlfriend Anisa and they take two separate streets to avoid attention. Soon they’re aboard a minibus heading outside Mogadishu, pretending they don’t know each other. After more than two hours of travel, they arrive at Walaweyn, a run-down town 90...