By Chris Mangion Two Tunisian nationals involved in a fight with Somali nationals, while stealing from vehicles parked in B’Bugia plead not guilty to the charges. Two Tunisian plasterers, Mahdi Warfilli, 23 and 18-year old Mohammed Idris Magdoub, pleaded not guilty to stealing cash, damaging vehicles and attempting to grievously injure three Somalis in an...
Many Somali women wear the niqab even in areas not controlled by al-Shabab Somalia’s al-Shabab militants have rounded up around 100 women and ordered them to comply with a strict Islamic dress code or risk being whipped. The women were arrested in Buale, about 300km (185 miles) south-west of the capital, Mogadishu. BBC Somali analyst...
Prague – Czech ambassador to Riyad Jiri Slavik was summoned to the Saudi Foreign Ministry on Sunday to hear a complaint about President Milos Zeman’s anti-Muslim statements, daily Lidove noviny (LN) writes today. Prezident Miloš Zeman pokračoval 10. června v cestě po Libereckém kraji. Na Horním náměstí v Hrádku nad Nisou se setkal s...
By Tony Gonzalez Abdishakur “Abdi” Mohamed says he wants refugee immigrants in Nashville to stand on their own two feet — an analogy for hard work and self-sufficiency that’s especially fitting when he says it. Mohamed, forced out of war-torn Somalia in 2002, has known a journey to America made more difficult by polio, which...
© UNHCR/D.Mwancha Timiro Idow rests in her new shelter in Ifo 2 camp. She is surrounded by children and grandchildren. DADAAB, Kenya-(UNHCR)– In northern Kenya, a community radio station funded by UNHCR is working to help struggling refugees at camps in Dadaab, attracting donations from across the globe and support from the local population. One story...
By Mark Hosenball The FBI is investigating men of Somali background who have traveled from the Minneapolis-St Paul area to Syria to fight with Islamist groups against President Bashar al-Assad, an FBI spokesman said on Thursday. Kyle Loven, a spokesman for the FBI’s Minneapolis office, said in the last few months the Bureau had received information indicating...
Sha’ban is the name of the (eigth) month of the Islamic lunar calendar, and it is so called because in this month the Arabs used to disperse (tasha’aba) in search of water, or it was said that it is so called because it sha’aba (branches out or emerges) i.e., it appears between the months of...
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By Ronald Mubiru The Police have in custody a man of Somali origin who was arrested at a Makindye guesthouse without documentation on him. The man, who identified himself as Abduraman Saleh was arrested Wednesday morning from Executive Guest House Facilities Bar and Restaurant located on Makindye House of the World Cup that begins Thursday....
Somali insurgents linked to al-Qaida said to be preparing to attack targets including ‘western interests’ Al-Shabaab militants during a training exercise in southern Mogadishu. Photograph: Feisal Omar/Reuters Nairobi – Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab insurgents are planning further attacks in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, Britain warned Thursday, after suicide bombers last month attacked a...