ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — St. Cloud school officials have met with Somali parents, community elders and students after Somali-American students walked out to protest their treatment. The meeting happened Thursday, a day after students, including 18-year-old Nasteho Dini, walked out of St. Cloud Tech High School, according to Minnesota Public Radio News (http://bit.ly/1C04YQ2 )....
By SCOTT SHANE New York Times MINNEAPOLIS — Reading back over Abdi Nur’s Twitter feed, his chilling progression from the basketball courts of South Minneapolis to the battlefields of Syria is clear. Early last year, he began posting stern religious pronouncements and snippets of scripture. By April 2, a day after turning 20, he hailed...
By Lisa Vives NEW YORK, (IPS) – After twin suicide bombings at a popular Mogadishu hotel last week that killed 25 and wounded 40, news reporters were seen swarming through the city, spotlighting the victims, the assassins, the motives and the official response. This left actor Barkhad Abdi, who played opposite Tom Hanks in the...
W/Q: BADSO/SCALE & SSA Fiidkii ay bisha February ahayd 21, sanadka 2015 ayaa Xarunta Cabral ee Jaamacadda Northeastern, waxaa lagu qabtay kulan suugaaneed loogu magacdaray “Hidde iyo Dhaqan.” Kulankan, oo ay si heer sare ah u soo agaasimeen Ururka Ardayda Soomaaliyeed (SSA) ee Jaamacadda Northeastern iyo naadiga BADSO (Barashada Afka iyo Dhaqanka Soomaaliyeed), ayaa waxaa...
By Faisal Roble Editor’s Note: Peaking into the rich WDN archives full of ten years of rare collection of historical pieces, news, commentary, opinion as well as cultural and poetry analysis and writing from across the globe, we come upon a jewel, a rarity, a genius piece of writings, honest and true and free of bias....
In Norway, the majority (75%) of children who are of Somali origin live in poverty, according to the latest official figures released by the country’s statistics agency. The data published by Statistics Norway paint a rather bleak picture for many immigrant groups struggling to make ends meet. Afghani and Iraqi groups, for instance, also have high levels of...
By Hussien Mohamed Yusuf The development and utilization of effective mechanisms for quality assurance and improvement are critical to successful higher education everywhere. Every nation and its university graduates are competing in an environment shaped by its own local and national needs as well as international expectations and standards. The impacts of the latter are...
By Hudhaifah Siyad We always get moved by street kids’ life hustles, struggles and how they got neglected by their families, yet at most times people take no effort to help them. Actually most people want the street kids off the streets. This poem is written from the perspective of a street kid. If I...
By Luqman Makina Editor’s Note: The writer of this essay is a 7th grader who is interested in animal and physical sciences. ____________ It all started while I was hiking a trail in Colorado; I went up some rocks and kept going. I looked around to see where I was. It seemed like I was...
By Moulid Hujale As the world celebrates the international day of peace, Somali youth around the world are making efforts to contribute to peace in their country by creating forums and programs that bring them together in the spirit of peace building in Somalia. Badbaado Team, a young dedicated Somali youth group in Nairobi has...