Harun Maruf FILE – A money changer counts local currency notes at a local bureau where $100 US dollar exchanges for 750,000 Somaliland shillings in Hargeysa WASHINGTON — The Somali Minister of Finance says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is taking the lead in helping Somalia with a grant to print new currency before the end...
TORONTO — A car and knife attack on a police officer outside a football game and a high-speed chase of a moving van that left four people injured was the work of a Somali refugee who was likely working alone and was known to police for extremist ideology, Canadian authorities said Sunday. Marlin Degrand, assistant commissioner of the...
As community turns out in record numbers for Mpls. races, candidates come knocking. By Adam Belz SHARI L. GROSS – STAR TRIBUNE FILEState Rep. Ilhan Omar endorsed fellow legislator Ray Dehn in the Minneapolis mayor’s race. Council Member Abdi Warsame, the first and only Somali-American elected to Minneapolis office, stood outside a coffee shop in the...
Oromia map By Salem Solomon Somaliland, a semi-autonomous region in the Horn of Africa, has displaced thousands of ethnic Oromos, according to Negeri Lencho, Ethiopia’s information minister. The forced relocations are the latest fallout of simmering conflict along the border between Ethiopia’s Oromia and Somali regions. Those tensions have boiled over in recent weeks, resulting...
By Hassan M. Abukar A Somali politician once joked about what he termed Somalis’ penchant for “perpetual controversy.” It is always one letdown after the other, he said. “At this point, there is nothing my people could do that will shock me,” he said, smiling. Last month, the Somali government caused a political ruckus when...
BY GLORIA GALLOWAY, OTTAWA Veterans who believe a military-issued anti-malarial drug has left them with damaged brains are demanding the government to acknowledge what they say are the medication’s chronic debilitating effects. A few dozen vets, their family members and their supporters gathered on Parliament Hill on Tuesday to ask that further action be...
BY JOANNE E. LAUCIUS, Ottawa Sun On the morning of July 24, 2016, a shaken Nimao Ali surprised herself by picking up her cellphone and shooting a video. From the balcony of her Hilda Street apartment, Ali aimed her camera below at two Ottawa police officers crouched next to a handcuffed and bleeding Abdirahman Abdi. Only later...
By Maya Srikrishnan, Voice of San Diego Iftin Charter School has gotten itself into a huge, expensive mess. Earlier this year, multiple employees filed complaints against the City Heights school over discrimination and retaliation. In June, the school received a scathing reportafter a San Diego Unified investigation, sparked by a raft of parent concerns over the...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni. He says MPs to have final say on presidential age limit; trashes his 2012 stand that leaders over 75 are unhealthy to rule. FILE PHOTO | NMG By DAILY MONITOR President Yoweri Museveni has said Ugandan MPs would have the final say on the presidential age limit. The president spoke on...
By Nizar Manek Ethiopian Airlines Source: AFP via Getty Images Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise is in talks about founding regional divisions in Zambia and Chad and aims to buy part of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s national operator in a push to consolidate its lead as Africa’s biggest carrier. An outline plan for a joint-venture airline in Zambia...