A famous Swedish bandy coach and Somali refugees are out on thin ice, and aiming for Siberia and the bandy world championship. With little time to practice, they are hoping for at least some goals. The sound of sharp steel blades scratching the skating rink’s ice pierces the chill air as players on wobbly legs...
November 14, 2026
Category: News
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Somalia parliament starts debate on motion to impeach Prime Minister
By Abdi Sheikh Somalia’s parliament begun on Saturday debating a no-confidence motion against the prime minister who has fallen out with the president. Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid has said he welcomed parliament’s intervention to settle the disagreement with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Saaid has not disclosed any details of the dispute but legislators...
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Wararka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka maanta waxaad ku dhageysan doontaan asxaabey:Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya oo ka qayb galay munaasabad ay ku qalin jibiyeen arday Soomaaliyeed , Faroole oo ka hadlay arintii daadadka deegaanada Puntland iyo fatahaada wabiga shabeele iyo warar kale. Warka Raadiyo Wardheer 29-11-2013
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Gambia: 2 Somalis charged with economic crime
The Police Prosecution Unit in Banjul Thursday filed a single count of Economic Crime (specified offences) Act, contrary to Section 5 (b) of Economic Crime against two Somalian nationals at the Banjul Magistrates ‘Court, presided over by Principal Magistrate Hilary Abeke. The accused persons are Abdirizak Hersi and Faysal Ahmed Jama. According to the particulars...
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Puntland naked Attack on Khaatumo State
PRESS RELASE A second Message to UNSRSG Nicholas Kay Abdirahman Faroole, president of Puntland, has launched on Thursday, 28 November 2013, a concerted naked attack on KhaatumoState’s provisional capital, Taleex, in Sool region. His forces comprise those trained by the USA to combat terrorism, and those trained by a security agency called Saracen to counter...
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China’s Huawei to roll out 4G service in Ethiopian capital
By Aaron Maasho Addis Ababa (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s state-run Ethio Telecom said on Thursday it had picked Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world’s second largest telecom equipment maker, to roll out a high-speed 4G network across the capital Addis Ababa. The introduction of the service is part of a $1.6 billion deal signed in July...
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MPs urge Theresa May to reverse qat ban
Stumulent widely used by Somali and Yemeni communities was criminalised without proper evidence of its harm, committe says Alan Travis, home affairs editor MPs are urging Theresa May, the home secretary, to reverse the government’s ban on the herbal stimulant qat, which is widely used in Britain’s Somali and Yemeni communities. A Commons home affairs select...
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Maltese passport in Somalia
By John Attard Montalto Up until a week or so ago, I thought I had heard and learned enough about Maltese passports. But that was before I visited Somalia, on a personal fact-finding mission to the land from where many irregular migrants to Malta originate. I arrived from Ethiopia and landed in Hargeisa, Somalia’s second...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka maanta waxa ka mid aha asxaabey: Dab qasaare geystay oo ka kacay Muqdisho, Wasaarada Gaashandhiga oo sheegtay in la maareeyay mushaharkii Ciidanka dowlada Soomaaliya taasina ay dhiira gilin doonto gacan ku dhigida dalka oo dhan iyo warar kale Warka Raadiyo Wardheer 28-11-2013
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Trending: Camels, khat and corruption #OnlyinSomalia
By Cordelia Hebblethwaite BBC News If you want a snapshot of what’s on the minds of Somalis, then hop in and cast an eye through the tweets under the hashtag #OnlyinSomalia. “You can feel the frustration in some of the tweets,” says Abdurahman Warsame, a Somali journalist with Al Jazeera, who started the hashtag on...