The Columbus Dispatch In recent weeks, Columbus-based, Somali-born musician Abdinur Daljir has drawn press accolades more commonly bestowed on American rock stars. Pitchfork, a picky and powerful music website, called his global pop “a superb glimpse of what was” and touted “synth lines and accent percussion that would sound at home on Phil Collins’ No...
Just yesterday, when I was provoked to write my latest piece “Getting Our Perspective Right on Our Fellow Africans,” I quoted extensively from a great work by a great genius of Africa, Chinua Achebe. At the time, I had no idea that Achebe was inches away from death. Also my hunch tells me that I...
New report details the damaging effects of the NYPD’s Muslim surveillance regime By John Knefel March 11, 2013 Civil liberties groups led by the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition released a new report today detailing the detrimental effects of the NYPD’s spying on Muslim communities in recent years. The report, called Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and...
Dhamaan bahda WardheerNews waxay tacsi u dirayaan iyaga oo ka xun ehelkii iyo qaraabadii geeridii naxdinta lahayd ee dhawaan ku timid marxuum Abiib X. Jaamac oo ku geeriyooday magaalada Charlotte oo dalka Maraykanka. Waxaanu Ilaah uga beryaynaa in marxuuka uu janadii Farduusa ka waraabiyo, ehelkii iyo qaarabadii uu ka baxay samir iyo iimaan ka siiyo. Aamiin Maamulka WardheerNews
By ABDULKADIR KHALIF Africa Review March 11, 2013 Mogadishu – Egypt has become the latest country to re-establish ties with Somalia as the world continues to support the Horn of Africa country’s recovery effort. A delegation led by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr Sunday met top Somali leaders in Mogadishu where he reiterated that...
MOGADISHU, Somalia March 01, 2013 (AP) — A police officer in Somalia’s capital says a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the gate to a beachside restaurant. Police officer Abdi Yasin Hassan said security guards prevented the bomber from entering the restaurant and that he blew himself up at the gate. Hassan said the bomber...
A Somali-American man was found guilty on Thursday of trying to blow up a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Oregon using a fake bomb supplied to him by undercover agents posing as Islamist militants, the public defender’s office said. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a naturalize U.S. citizen and former Oregon State University student, faces a possible...
Two men who attempted to hijack a Japanese tanker off the coast of Oman were jailed for 10 years by Tokyo District Court on Friday, a report said, in the first piracy prosecution in Japan. The two were among four African men arrested in March 2011 over the attack in the Indian Ocean. Men armed...
RaadRaac: Waraysiga waxa uu Barre sare Siciid Sh. Samatar kaga hadlayaa guud ahaan xaalada Soomaaliya, iyo sababaha dhaliya in ay Soomaaliya ilaa hadda u degi la’dahay.Waraysiga waxaa qaaday Khaill C/raxmaan.
By Nick Eubank As the humanitarian crisis in southern Somalia threatens millions of lives, Somalia’s little-known northern neighbour, Somaliland, is doing so well that its government recently offered to send aid across the border. That a small and relatively poor country that is also suffering from the ongoing drought would be in a position to...