By PAUL WAFULA and NYAMBEGA GISESA Francis Kavindu arrived at his Kivani home in Kitui County one Wednesday morning in late 2011. He found men digging a grave. When he inquired who’s grave it was, they told him it was for his fifth born son, Major Samuel Keli Kavindu. Hours later, he collapsed in his...
November 14, 2026
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Missing Somali man likely killed, Calgary police say
Calgary police believe a 25-year-old man who went missing in February was killed, but they have not identified any suspects. Suryan Giama was last seen by family Feb. 17 at a Woodbine home. Police recovered his vehicle about a month later in the Britannia-Elboya area of the southwest. Forensic evidence gleaned from multiple scenes in...
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EXCLUSIVE – Somalia, Kenya in diplomatic row over detentions
Somali Ambassador Mohamed Nur is back to Mogadishu for consultations by Yassin Juma NAIROBI, Somalia and Kenya are in a diplomatic row over an ongoing Kenyan security operation that has seen thousands of Somalis, including a diplomat, being rounded up in a few weeks. Somali Ambassador Mohamed Nur has been recalled to Mogadishu for consultations after...
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Court allows St. Paul to demolish Moonlight Magic bar building
Article by: ALEJANDRA MATOS The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled the city did not discriminate against a Minneapolis couple looking to open a Somali wedding venue. The City of St. Paul can move forward with the demolition of the Moonlight Magic bar, a vacant building in Frogtown that a Minneapolis couple was trying to restore into a Somali wedding...
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Somali PM angry over diplomat’s arrest in Kenya
The security operation has targeted many Somalis Somalia has condemned the arrest of one of its diplomats in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, during a security operation to flush out illegal immigrants and militant Islamists. Siyad Mohamud Shire’s brief arrest on Friday violated his diplomatic immunity, Somalia’s government said. Kenyan police said Mr Shire did not...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan maanta idiin heynio waxaa ka mid ah:Barlamaanka Soomaaliya oo maalintii labaad su’aalo weydiinaya wasiirka Amniga Qaranka iyo Arimaha gudaha, Raiisul wasaaraha Soomaaliya oo ka dalbaday in ay ciidanka Kenya joojiyaan tacadiga ay ku hayaan Soomaalida dalkaasi ku sugan iyo warar kale.
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Statement from Abdulahi Yusuf on stowaway teen son
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The father of the teen Somali boy who stowed away on the Hawaiian Airlines flight last week issued the below statement on Sunday regarding his son through the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “My name is Abdulahi Yusuf and I am —–‘s father. Our...
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Witness pins UPDF soldier over Somalia offences
By EPHRAIM KASOZI Maj Tumwebaze, also a former commanding officer in-charge of the armoured elements, testified that the area of operation was bigger compared to the personnel which affected their work. Kampala- Despite constant and abundant supplies of lubricants and spares to tanks used by UPDF soldiers serving under the African Union Mission to Somalia (Amisom),...
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Central African Republic: Bangui mosque looted after Muslim exodus
Christian militants descend on mosque and force thousands from the capital amid further ‘ethnic cleansing’ in the region Militants stripped the mosque and dismantled and stole the loudspeaker once used for the call to prayer. Photograph: Krista Larson/AP Heavily armed African and French peacekeepers escorted some of the last remaining Muslims out of Central African Republic‘s...
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Somali boy who stowed away on airplane wanted to reach his mother
Authorities piece together story of 15-year-old, now hospitalised, who survived five-hour flight in the wheel well of a jet A 15-year-old boy scrambled over a fence at the San Jose International Airport and survived a five-hour flight to Hawaii by stowing away on a plane. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP AN JOSE, California (AP) He was young,...