BY DAHIR JIBRIL Mogadishu — Al-Shabaab’s refusal to allow the supply of the polio vaccine in areas under its control is causing panic among residents at a time when aid workers are struggling to contain an outbreak of the crippling virus. “The polio outbreak plaguing Somalia has spread despite significant efforts to curb the disease,”...
Members of the community gathered at a Toronto mosque on Wednesday to remember the 16-year-old boy who died after a shooting at an apartment building over the weekend. The boy, who can no longer be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was shot late Sunday evening inside a 19th-floor apartment building at 2240 Weston...
African Refugees Try to Warm Up to Bandy, a Cousin of Hockey By NICLAS ROLANDER BORLÄNGE, Sweden—Sports fans whose heartstrings were tugged by the Jamaican bobsled team back in the 1980s may have a new underdog to pull for as a group of Somali men living in Sweden look to master the fast-paced and ice-cold...
Muqdisho – Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Mudane Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud, ayaa maanta ku soo laabtay Muqdisho ka dib safar labo cisho qaatay oo uu ku joogey magaalada Marka ee xarunta gobolka Shabeelada Hoose. Madaxweynaha, ayaa waxaa safarkan ku wehliyey wasiirrada Garsoorka, Gaashaandhigga, Arrimaha Gudaha, xildhibaanno iyo mas’uuliyiin kale. Madaxweynaha, ayaa maalintii shalay aheyd tagey xeebta...
BY FREDERIC J. FROMMER WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday she will release an alleged Somali pirate ahead of his trial this fall, saying it was “pretty extraordinary” to hold someone presumed innocent in jail for more than two years. U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle said at a hearing that she will issue an...
By Ali H Abdulla “When I describe what happened to me on Aug. 23, 2008, I say that I was taken. On an empty stretch of road outside of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, out of the back seat of a four-wheel-drive Mitsubishi by a dozen or so men whose faces were swaddled in checkered...
A POSITION PAPER ABOUT THE FORUM This forum is comprised of a group of Somalilanders from all walks of life and stations including SNM veterans, intellectuals, academics, politicians, businessmen, members from Somalilander Diaspora, ordinary Somalilanders as well as reprentatives from Women’s and Youth Civil Societies. All the regions and minorities of the country are...
NAIROBI, (IRIN)- Somalia continues to make progress in its recovery from the 2011 famine, but some 870,000 people – most of them internally displaced persons (IDPs) – are predicted to require food assistance up to December 2013, according to new data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit...
KORAY TEKİN, ANKARA Turkey is preparing to create a Turkish industrial zone in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, as part of its African policy which started in 2005 and has been showing marked development of its business assets. Speaking at the opening of the African Strategies Sectoral Evaluation Meeting in Ankara on Monday, Turkish Foreign Minister...
By MARK BRUNSWICK More than $215 million a year is sent to Somalia by relatives in the United States, with much of that originating in Minnesota. The process, which involves sending cash through money-transfer operators, is known as remittance and has become the subject of controversy amid concerns that the money could be used to...