By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton U.S. President Donald Trump congratulates White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus during a swearing in ceremony for senior staff at the White House in Washington, DC January 22, 2017. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump replaced his beleaguered White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, after only six months on...
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Woman vows to ‘kill all Muslims’ during supermarket car park dispute
‘Do you think the police care?’ said Amber Hensley as Sarah Hassan threatened to report abuse By Gabriel Samuels Amber Hensley abused the women and accused them of saying ‘f*** Jesus’ SARAH HASSAN/FACEBOOK A woman told three Somali-American women she wanted to “kill all Muslims” while ordering them to “go home” during an argument over parking. Amber...
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Somalia: Al-Shabab Forces Burn Villages
Nairobi – The Islamist armed group Al-Shabab burned numerous homes in raids on villages in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region in late May 2017, Human Rights Watch said today based on witness accounts and satellite imagery analysis. Al-Shabab fighters abducted civilians, stole livestock, and committed arson in attacks that caused more than 15,000 people to flee...
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Drought, Conflict Displace 800,000 in Somalia: IOM published by ismail hassan
Salem Solomon FILE – Displaced Somali girls who fled the drought in southern Somalia stand in a queue to receive food handouts at a distribution center in a camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Feb. 25, 2017. WASHINGTON — Somalia is suffering from a renewed displacement crisis as people flee drought and conflict, particularly in the country’s southern...
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Human Rights Watch: French police use excessive force on Calais migrants
PARIS (Reuters) – Human Rights Watch pressed France on Wednesday to end what it described as recurrent police violence against migrants in the northern town of Calais, where hundreds have returned despite the demolition of a sprawling camp once known as “the jungle”. In a report entitled “Like Living in Hell”, the U.S.-based rights group...
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Somali-born police afraid after Damond death
Australian Justine Damond and Somali-born police officer Mohamed Noor. Minneapolis’ Somali-American police officers are “afraid” after a wave of community and online anger in response to last week’s fatal police shooting of Australian Justine Damond. Abdi Warsame, a Minneapolis City Council member, hit back at racist and anti-Muslim comments aimed at the US city’s large...
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Women cyclists in Jeddah surprise many on Corniche
Women cyclists ride around the Corniche wearing long pants and loose shirts with helmets carefully placed over their headscarves. — Courtesy: Al-Arabiya Jeddah — This is an unusual sight in Jeddah: Women in hijab riding bicycles on the popular seafront road. They are members of “Bicicleta,” the first team of women cyclists in Saudi Arabia founded...
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In Minneapolis, Atypical Police Killing Raises an Old Outcry: Why?
By JOHN ELIGON, VIVIAN YEE and MATT FURBER MINNEAPOLIS — There was something bad going on in the alleyway behind the house, she told her fiancé on the phone, someone who sounded as if she was in distress, maybe a rape. It was past 11 p.m., and most people on Washburn Avenue were furled in their beds. Except Justine...
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When A Somali-American Woman Was Attacked, Support Came From An Unlikely Source
Wynne Davis Dawn Sahr (left) and Asma Jama met for the first time at StoryCorps. In October 2015, Sahr’s sister physically attacked Jama at a restaurant in Minnesota. Afterward, Sahr reached out to Jama to make sure she was OK and to offer her support. Courtesy of StoryCorps Asma Jama was out to dinner with...
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As the U.S. gets more involved in Somalia, beware these three fallacies
By Michael F. Harsch, Maximilian M. Meduna and Teresa Krug The United States is getting more involved in Somalia, the nation in the Horn of Africa that has been wrestling with violent conflict and political instability for nearly three decades. Since June, the United States has conducted multiple military operations against al-Shabab militants in the country, pledged $126 million in humanitarian assistance,...