PRESS STATEMENT For immediate release The Coalition for Change is a platform for political parties, forums, presidential candidates and politicians who have collectively consented to coordinate their activities in order to bring about a positive political transformation in Somalia leading up to the 2016 legislative and presidential elections. We have followed the developments surrounding the...
By Jamal Abdulahi, MinnPost Back in 2014, I wrote about how Minnesota’s House 60B is different from Minneapolis City Council Ward 6. The objective of the essay was to highlight the fact that any Somali-American candidate challenging Rep. Phyllis Kahn will have to appeal to the majority community. Ilhan Omar has done it. In Tuesday’s primary...
According to think tank Britain Future, athletes whose immediate family came to Britain from overseas won 24 of the 65 medals Britain claimed in the 2012 Games Allen Hennessy Mo Farah this week became the first Briton to win three track golds PA Day eight at Rio gave rise to myriad memorable moments of sporting glory with...
Mogadishu- The United States Special Forces have killed more than 30 Al-Shabab militants including senior commanders during two separate security operations in southern Somalia in the past four days. Sources close to the government army told Xinhua on Sunday that the operations which took place on Aug. 10 and 13 targeted insurgents in Sakow town...
Mo Farah retains his Olympic 10,000m final in Rio to make history. Mo Farah becomes the fourth man to defend an Olympic 10,000m title, and the first British athlete to do so, winning in a time of 27:05.17. Despite a fall, Team GB’s best ever distance runner hit the front with a kilometre to go and...
By Fred Oluoch Somalia is facing a constitutional dilemma after the National Leadership Forum pushed the presidential election to October 30, despite the term of the current government ending on September 10. Two of the presidential candidates — Mohamud Farole and Ali Haji Warsame — have said that it would be against Somalia’s provisional Constitution to...
By Candace Buckner Maryan Nuh Muse pictured during opening ceremonies. (BBC News) World class athletes are not supposed to get props just for their effort. But Somalia’s Maryan Nuh Muse should be that exception. On Saturday morning, she could not keep up with her heat in the first round of the Women’s 400 meters. So behind the rest...
Ilhan Omar’s victory in the DFL primary is a great step forward. By Abdi Warsame While I supported and campaigned for Mohamud Noor in the recent DFL primary election in Minnesota House District 60B, I wholeheartedly welcome Ilhan Omar’s victory. It truly is a historic moment for the Somali diaspora and all Minnesotans. For Minnesota’s...
MOGADISHU, Somalia’s top political decision-making forum has been lauded for endorsing a 30 percent parliamentary quota for women in the forthcoming general elections. Earlier this week, the National Leadership Forum (NLF), which brings together top leaders from both federal and regional governments, endorsed the quota of special seats for women in both the Senate and...
A BBC radio presenter has made reference to Somali pirates while discussing the Somali Olympic team’s results at a sailing event in Rio. The joke was made on BBC Cumbria’s late show with Ian Timms on Tuesday, August 9. But now it’s being questioned whether the joke was a little too controversial, with some calling...