BY PHILIP O’CONNOR Somalis on ice skates seems as implausible as Jamaicans in a bobsled but a Swedish-based team are preparing to represent the troubled African nation at next month’s world championships – in the sport of bandy. Formed just months ago and made up of immigrants who have settled in Borlaenge, a town some...
The semi-autonomous Somali region will choose a new president in January. Malkhadir Muhumed Nairobi, Kenya – As presidential elections approach in Puntland, the candidates in the running have accused one another of failing Somalia’s semi-autonomous region. The international community is closely watching Puntland’s January 8 election, worrying that increased instability in the region could damage Somalia’s...
By FIONA MACRAE SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT A glass of tomato juice a day could help keep breast cancer at bay. Women who upped their tomato intake made more of a hormone thought to protect against the disease. The US researchers said: ‘The advantages of eating plenty of tomatoes and tomato-based products, even for a short period of...
BY DAVID PETERSON Foreign-born populations are moving out of the central cities. Even outer-ring suburbs are becoming more culturally and racially diverse. Yussuf Shafie admits it wasn’t easy being among the first Somali immigrants to arrive in Burnsville’s schools. “It wasn’t as diverse as it is today, I’ll tell you that. It was hard to...
The top United Nations envoy in Somalia has strongly condemned the killing of six people during an attack on a medical convoy outside Mogadishu today. “Somalia, still struggling to build up its health services, relies on the goodwill of NGOs [non-governmental organizations] and medical personnel who work in incredibly difficult conditions to save Somali lives,”...
Warka maanta waxaad ku maqli doontaan: Dhaqaatiir isugu jirta Soomaali iyo Ajnabi lagu laayay duleedka Muqdisho, hormaatinkii R/wasaaraha cusub ee Barlamaanka ee maanta dib u dhacay iyo warar kal. Hoos ka dhegeyso warka oo dhan:
BY FREDERIC J. FROMMER WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday it plans to retry an alleged Somali pirate for hostage-taking, after a jury deadlocked on those charges last week. The government announced its decision at a hearing Wednesday in the case of Ali Mohamed Ali. His lawyer, Matthew J. Peed, told U.S. District...
The Somali armed group continues to create Twitter accounts – and the social network keeps shutting them down. More than two months after their last account on Twitter was suspended, al-Shabab – the Somali rebel group fighting the UN-backed government in Mogadishu – opened a new account on Monday, their seventh since September. But their...
Three Syrian doctors and their Somali colleague have been shot dead in an ambush near Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, witnesses have told the BBC. Gunmen opened fire on their car as they travelled towards a health clinic, the eyewitnesses said. Two of their bodyguards were also killed in the attack, while another Syrian and Somali doctor...
Brad Newsom Twenty years ago, Abdirahman Farole fled civil war in Somalia, finding refuge for himself and his young family in Melbourne. As much as he came to love Australia, he remained intent on returning to help rebuild his shattered country. In 2008 he was elected president of the semi-autonomous Somali state of Puntland. The...