PHOTO | EVANS HABIL Energy Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir addressing journalists at his Nyayo House office on January 27, 2014 after naming the successful firms who had placed bids for Coal and Petroleum power plants. NATION MEDIA GROUP By ANDREW TEYIE Energy Secretary Davis Chirchir has refused to renew the exploration licence of Vanoil Energy...
Tacsi: Marxuum Cabdirisaaq Xaaji Xuseen
Innaa Lillaahi wa innaa Illeyhi raajicuun! Mudane Cabdirisaaq Xaaji Xuseen waxa uu ku dhashay nawaaxiga magaalada Garoowe ee Gobolka Nugaal, sannadku markii uu abbaaraha ahaa 1924. Mudane Cabdisisaaq Xaaji Xusseen waxa uu 1944-tii ku soo biiray Somali Youth League (SYL). Xilligaas, waxa uu aad u yiqiin Diinta Islaamka, Cilmiga Bulshada, luuqadda Carabiga, Talyaaniga iyo tan Ingiriiska. Waxa uu ku...
Somali diplomat in Kenya ‘denied immunity’
A Somali diplomat in Kenya has been held in detention for more than a week, Somalia’s ambassador has told the BBC. Ilyas Yusuf Warsame, a secretary of the Somali embassy in the capital, Nairobi, is currently “under interrogation”. Ambassador Mohamed Ali America said he had complained to the Kenyan authorities, who had said Mr Warsame...
Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka maanta aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: R/wasaaraha Soomaaliya oo tacsi u diray Shacabka Soomaaliyeed geeridii ku timid Alle ha u naxariistee R/wasaarihii hore C/Risaaq Xaaji Xuseen, dagaallo u dhexeeya ciiddanka dowlada oo ka dhacay Xamar iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
Somali refugees’ return home gets off to a slow start
By JOE KIARIE The ongoing repatriation of refugees from the Dadaab Refugee Camp is recording slow progress amid reluctance by most immigrants to return home. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), about 80,000 refugees, 96 per cent of whom are from Somalia, have left the sprawling Dadaab complex since July last...
Final sentence in Somali terror case
SAN DIEGO — An Anaheim cabdriver who raised funds to aid terrorists in his war-torn homeland of Somalia was sentenced Friday to six years in prison, where he will join three other San Diego Somalis who were sentenced in the scheme two months ago. Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud, 38, played the most minor role among the...
New owners, city locked in dispute over former bar
By Frederick Melo More than 30 of Ameena Samatar’s friends and family members crowded a hearing room last week at the Minnesota Judicial Center on Cedar Street, eager to show their support for her dreams of turning a shuttered bar into a Somali meeting hall. Most of the attendees were women dressed in traditional Muslim...
‘Salaam, Love’ counters stereotypes of Muslim men
By Omar Sacirbey Oppressive. Boorish. Misogynist: Those are the popular images of Muslim men and how they treat women. But there’s more to it than that, thought Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi, the editors of “Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women.” Many Muslims welcomed the two women’s 2012 collection of 25 stories...
KENYAN TROOPS TO LEAVE THE SOMALI TOWN OF KISMAYO
BY TOM ODULA NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Most Kenyan troops will soon leave the port city of Kismayo which they took control of more than a year ago after ousting al-Qaida-linked militants, a Kenyan military spokesman said Friday The Kenyan army command will leave Kismayo “soon,” said Col. Willy Wesonga. Sierra Leonean troops will replace Kenyan...
Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka maanta ee Raadiyaha Wardheer waxaa ka mid ah: Goddoomiyaha degmada Jannaale oo ka badbaaday isku day dil, AMISOM oo beenisay hadal shalay ka soo yeeray wax garadka ku shirsan Baydhabo oo ku aadanaa in ay AMISOM joojisay shirki halkaassi ka socday iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
