By Alix Culbertson The two-year-old was taken by police in a ‘horrifying raid’ after a neighbour allegedly called police saying he was neglected About 50 Somali people campaigned outside Hammersmith Town Hall today A Somali community campaigned today after a toddler was pulled out of his family home by undercover police after a neighbour allegedly told...
February 6, 2025
Category: Global News & Politics
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3 DEAD IN SOMALIA AFTER MILITANTS ATTACK HOTEL
BY ABDI GULED MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A suicide bomber and gunmen killed three people, including two soldiers, on Thursday when they attacked a hotel housing African Union and Somali forces, officials said. The attack began when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the Amalow Hotel in Bulo-Burte town before gunmen tried to force their...
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Muslim World Cup players face Ramadan decision
BY PHILIP O’CONNOR Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil passes the ball during their English Premier League soccer match against West Bromwich Albion at the Emirates stadium in London May 4, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/DYLAN MARTINEZ With the knockout rounds of the World Cup coinciding with the beginning of Ramadan, Muslim players must decide whether to observe the month-long...
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Prosecutors pushing for 10-year sentence for Toronto man who tried leave Canada to join ‘brutal’ terrorists
Stewart Bell A Toronto man convicted of attempting to join the Somali terrorist group Al Shabab should serve no more than four years in prison, his lawyer argued Wednesday, claiming his client had engaged only in “non-violent terrorism.” But federal prosecutors are seeking the 10-year maximum sentence for Mohamed Hassan Hersi, a 28-year-old former security...
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Terror group Al Shabab doesn’t smuggle ivory for cash. It sells charcoal.
New UN report says Somalia-based radicals operate off lucrative, illegal trade in charcoal, one of Africa’s main source of cheap energy. By Ryan Lenora Brown Khalil Senosi/AP NAIROBI, KENYA — Every year, hundreds of boats leave Somali ports bound for the Gulf states, packed full of contraband goods whose profits line the coffers of the Somalia-based extremist group Al...
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I love Kagame more than my president -Somalia ambassador
By staff writer newsdesk@greatlakesvoice.com Kigali, Rwanda- Somalia`s envoy to Rwanda has expressed his love of President Paul Kagame saying “I wish he was Somalia’s President.” Cabdullahi Sheikh Maxamed, speaks more of Kagame than the country and the President he represents. Ambassador Cabdullahi told Great Lakes Voice in an exclusive interview at his offices in Kigali...
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The Somali Ambassador to Rwanda: “I Love Kagame.”
By Hassan M. Abukar Recently, Somalia’s ambassador to Rwanda, Abdullahi Sheikh Mohamed, made a public confession. The envoy, in an interview with the Great Lakes Voice, said he loves Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame more than he does his own boss, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud. Abdullahi wishes Kagame were Somalia’s president. Why does the ambassador love...
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Massachusetts mayor demands State Department stop sending refugees to his city
AP- A Massachusetts mayor is calling for an end to refugee resettlement in his city, saying Somali families are putting pressure on already strained services in Springfield, a onetime industrial center where nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line. Mayor Domenic Sarno is the latest mayor to decry refugee resettlement, joining...
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A Threat to the Existence of Somalis in the Horn of Africa?
By Abdul-Aziz Mohammed For eons, the Somalis inhabited the Horn of Africa in seclusion. On one side, Somalis were protected from people-to-people invasions by the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea; and, on the other side, a harsh semi-desert which forbade conquering. Also, the few batches of fertile lands, along the two rivers in the...
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Luck of the Somalis
By Prof Said S. Samatar A Somali-related incident recently has aviators and officials of the sky gasping in astonishment. The officials were bowled over by the riveting story of a Somali stow-away who sneaked undetected into the wheel receptacle of a jetliner that took off from San Jose (California) airport for a seven-hour flight to...