Category: Somali News & Politics

Poll puts Nairobi-Mogadishu ties at risk
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Poll puts Nairobi-Mogadishu ties at risk

By RASHID ABDI Kenya’s testy and troubled relations with Somalia are once again on the rocks. The election of Sheikh Ahmed Madobe as President of Jubaland on May 15 by clan delegates in Kismayu has opened a huge chasm between Nairobi and Mogadishu and created a febrile atmosphere inimical to dialogue. As Kenya continues to warmly...

Syria strife sends Somali refugees on the run
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Syria strife sends Somali refugees on the run

Many are being forced to flee conflict again, years after having sought refuge in Syria from civil war back home. Mona Kosar San Diego, United States – It has been a strenuous 9,000-kilometre journey across the Atlantic to the US for Amal Kahim Jama and her Somali family. Fleeing civil war in Syria, they were recently forced...

Still ‘Somali’ after all these years
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Still ‘Somali’ after all these years

BY TAREK FATAH Alejandra Bravo’s tweet, the day after the Toronto Star’s latest “investigative report” on Mayor Rob Ford, echoed the sentiments of many in this city. She wrote: “This ‘Somali’ thing has to stop. Live/deal in Canada, you’re Canadian. Crack is a ‘Made in TO’ problem (that) we got to solve.” The message barely concealed...

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Somali stability motivates Norway

From Mr Heikki Eidsvoll Holmås. ir, Katrina Manson (“Oil thrown on the fire” and “A tangle of converging foreign interests”, Analysis, May 14) rightly focused on the complex challenges facing Somalia. We can all agree that a race for oil resources by foreign oil companies and destabilising rivalries between regional administrations must be avoided. The...

African Coins Could Rewrite Australia’s Past
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African Coins Could Rewrite Australia’s Past

NDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA—In 1944, while stationed on Australia’s Wessel Islands, soldier Maurie Isenberg discovered five 1,000-year-old copper coins thought to have been minted in the former Kilwa sultanate, a trading port on an island off the coast of Tanzania. Isenberg marked the spot where he found the coins on a map, and in 1979, donated them to an...

Minnesota Somalis react to sentences in al-Shabab case with mix of outrage, relief
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Minnesota Somalis react to sentences in al-Shabab case with mix of outrage, relief

By: AMY FORLITI , Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS – Wide-ranging sentences handed down in the yearslong federal investigation into recruiting and financing for the terrorist group al-Shabab have kindled a mix of outrage, confusion and relief among members of Minnesota’s large Somali community. Some say the 10- and 20-year prison sentences for two Minnesota women who...

An Al-Shabab Leader Says Hammami is Alive
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An Al-Shabab Leader Says Hammami is Alive

Special for WardheerNews By Hassan M. Abukar Shaikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, one of the leaders of Al-Shabab, confirmed that the American jihadist, Omar Hammami, is still alive. In an interview with Somali Channel TV on May 16, Aweys stated that Hammami was wounded and on the run. He lashed out at an unnamed senior Al-Shabab...

War in Somalia is over after the expulsion of Al-Shabaab militants, but hard work begins
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War in Somalia is over after the expulsion of Al-Shabaab militants, but hard work begins

NAIROBI, KENYA: For the first time in over two decades, most parts of Somalia are experiencing relative peace and order following the expulsion of Al-Shabaab militants from Mogadishu and other strategic locations. Efforts by Igad nations Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda to send troops into the war-ravaged country have neutralised the extremist group that had made living in Somalia a prolonged nightmare. Although efforts...