By Marco Zoppi Last October has sadly recorded two1 shipwrecks in the Sicilian Channel which claimed the lives of at least 373 migrants that were trying to reach the shores of the Italian tiny island of Lampedusa. The death toll is even destined to grow, since some 180 migrants are still lost at sea. Lampedusa...
July 2, 2025
Category: Everyday People
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Trending: Camels, khat and corruption #OnlyinSomalia
By Cordelia Hebblethwaite BBC News If you want a snapshot of what’s on the minds of Somalis, then hop in and cast an eye through the tweets under the hashtag #OnlyinSomalia. “You can feel the frustration in some of the tweets,” says Abdurahman Warsame, a Somali journalist with Al Jazeera, who started the hashtag on...
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Stolen Seas, Somali Piracy Debunked: An Interview with the filmmaker
By Yasmeen Maxamuud Stolen Seas is yet another “Pirate” documentary for a world that has become obsessed with Somali Piracy. The filmmaker follows the hijacking of the CEC Future; a Danish owned ship flying with a “Bahamas” flag (big companies rent flags from mostly poor countries to bypass legal restriction) that was hijacked while traveling...
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Somali Media: Ethics, Truth and Integrity
By Abdelkarim A Hassan “I haven`t voted since 1964, I don`t want to get my judgment involved in what I do for a living” Jim Lehrer, PBS, News Hour. Background In recent years Somali journalism, Islam and Somali music have become the easiest areas to penetrate without any previous experience or training. In other words,...
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Somali Women in the Diaspora: Women in Minneapolis
By Yasmeen Maxmuud Traditional Somali history has not been kind to Somali women and has often associated the term “Naag” with their weakness. All the demise of the family would be associated with the limitation of women. A countless number of proverbs as well as Somali poems has traditionally portrayed women as weak beings that...