NAIROBI (AFP) – Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents on Wednesday celebrated the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks with a Twitter eulogy for the “courageous” hijackers. In a series of posts on Twitter, the Islamists vowed “the mujahideen will continue with their jihad against the West until the world is ruled by one sovereign state, an Islamic state.” “A...
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German ‘Desert Flower’ centre to help circumcised women
BERLIN (AFP)- Somali-born activist and former supermodel Waris Dirie on Wednesday opens a centre in Germany to treat victims of female genital mutilation, which she was subjected to as a child. About 8,000 young girls are circumcised every day in Africa and the Middle East, and the Desert Flower Medical Center, located in a Berlin hospital, will offer reconstructive surgery...
Madaxweyne Xasan Sheekh oo qudbad ka jeediyey Shirka ka hortagga Burcad badeedda ee ka furmay Dubay.
Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Mudane Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud, ayaa maanta qudbad ka jeeediyey furitaanka shirka ka hortagga Burcad Badeedda oo maanta ka furmay magaaladda Dubay ee Isutagga Imaaraadka Carabta. Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda, ayaa marka hore u mahad celiyey dowladda Imaraadka Carabta oo sanad walba qabata Shirkan iwaxaanu yidhi, ” Aad ayaan uga mahad-celinayaa Dowladda Imaraadka shirkan iyo fahamka qatarta burcad badeedda”....
Dhagayso Warka Radio Wardheer
Muqdisho, September 11, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, kulanti wacan dhageystayaal,Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan waxaa ka mid ah,Madaxweyne Xasan Shiikh oo gaaray Dubai,Ra’iisul Wasaaraha Soomaaliya iyo Wafdi uu hogaaminayo oo dalka dib ugu soo laabtay,Dadka Jubooyinka oo kukala qeybsamay Shirka lagu qabanayo Kismaayo,iyo qodobo kale oo caalami ah
Conference to combat maritime piracy begins today
ABU DHABI: Much has been done to tackle the problems caused by maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia, but more needs to done to build the capacity of Somalia and its neighbours to control their own shores and patrol their own waters, the UAE Foreign Minister, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said on Tuesday. He made his remarks...
‘Help free our men’ plead relatives of hostages kidnapped after leaving Dubai waters
By Ramola Talwan Badam DUBAI // Help free our men is the appeal to the international community from the relatives of hostages being held by Somali pirates for nearly three years. The pirates still want money but there is nothing in our hands to pay them,” said Fatima Farhana, a Sri Lankan schoolteacher and the daughter of the MV Albedo’s...
The First Year of Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud’s Presidency
Ismail Ali Ismail (Geeldoon) Mr. Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud was elected a year ago as the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia upon the lapse of a long ‘Transitional Period’. He defeated the incumbent Sheikh Sharief Sheikh Ahmed fairly and squarely in a transparent electoral process. Although the independence, sovereignty, political unity and territorial integrity of Somalia were reaffirmed over...
Shabab back on Twitter
NAIROBI: Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shabab insurgents returned to Twitter Tuesday after their account last week was shut for a second time this year. The extremists, who are fighting the internationally-backed government in Mogadishu, sent an email message confirming that @HSM_Press was their new English-language account. It welcomed followers by accusing “disbelievers” of wanting to extinguish “Allah’s Light with their mouths.” Their...
Top world chefs help out bombed Somali restuarant
NAIROBI: Chefs from Denmark’s world famous Noma restaurant have launched an appeal to support a colleague in war-torn Somalia after his establishment was targeted again by Al-Qaeda inspired insurgents. The Village, set up in 2008 by restaurateur Ahmed Jama in Somalia’s dangerous capital Mogadishu, was last week attacked for the third time by Islamist Shabab insurgents, with a suicide attacker...
US adoptive parents convicted of Ethiopian girl’s death
A US couple has been convicted of the manslaughter of a teenage girl they adopted from Ethiopia. Larry and Carri Williams, of Washington state, starved and beat Hana Williams until she died in the backyard of their home in May 2011. They were also convicted of first-degree assault of a younger boy they had adopted from Ethiopia. Defence lawyers conceded...