Two organizations vied to host Independence Day celebrations along Lake Street last weekend. By Faiza Mahamud DAVID JOLES; STAR TRIBUNE Mohamed Farah is executive director of Ka Joog, which is being sued for gaining a city permit to host a celebration. This year’s celebration of Somalia’s Independence Day in Minneapolis had to survive a court...
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Report: Foreign maids in Oman can face abuse nearing slavery
By: JON GAMBRELL (DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A leading international rights group on Wednesday said that foreigners employed as maids in Oman can face physical and verbal abuse while working entrapped in conditions that near slavery. A new Human Rights Watch report blames in part Oman’s system of tying workers’ visas to their...
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Protecting Somalis From Their Protectors
By Laetitia Bader Researcher, Africa Division, HRW The United Nations Security Council’s renewal yesterday of the mandate for African Union forces in Somalia seeks to address the thorny issue of justice for abuses by AU troops. Since 2007, Human Rights Watch has been documenting serious abuses by troops from the peace support force, known as...
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Somali Woman, Defying Odds, Runs For Top Spot In Next Month’s Polls
With the news of terror attacks, the departure of peacekeepers and the proposed eviction of thousands of Somali refugees in neighboring Kenya, it is easy to miss the news of the first woman candidate running to be Somalia’s next president in next month’s national poll. Fadumo Dayib has overcome adversity before. She was the first...
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Operation SAO TOME: PART I
By Saiid Gaafow What connects Al-Shabaab, a Tanzanian terrorist financier, Turkey and a designated terrorism sponsor from a Middle Eastern state? The answer, albeit still very murky is the attempt to bring down the Somali airline, Daallo Airlines on 2 February 2016 in Somalia. What is now clear following months of investigations is that the...
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Rights Group Seeks Accountability as Ethiopia Wins 2-Year UNSC Term
FILE – The United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution during a meeting at U.N. headquarters, March 2, 2016. By Salem Solomon WASHINGTON— Human rights groups are using Ethiopia’s recent election to a non-permanent United Nations Security Council seat to push for a humanitarian agenda inside the east African nation. Ethiopia has a strained relationship...
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Provincial funding in limbo as Edmonton’s Somali community identifies root causes of violence
BY DAVE LAZZARINO Somali Canadian Society of Edmonton president Jibril Ibrahim takes part in a press conference where the Alberta government announced $1.61 million in funding for 12 crime prevention and victims support programs through the Civil Forfeiture Fund, Friday Aug. 17, 2012. The press conference was held at the Africa Centre gymnasium, 13160 –...
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ISLAMIC GROUP: MUSLIM MAN BEATEN OUTSIDE FLORIDA MOSQUE
BY KELLI KENNEDY The Fort Pierce Islamic Center was attended by the Pulse nightclub shooter, Omar Mateen. Photograph: Mike Brown/Reuters FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla, Authorities said they have arrested a suspect in the early Saturday beating of a man outside a Florida mosque that Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen had attended, and an Islamic group said...
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Is Al-Shabaab regaining ground?
At least 15 people were killed on June 25 when gunmen stormed Naso Hablod hotel in Mogadishu after a suicide bomber detonating a car filled with explosives at the hotel’s gate. The attack came three weeks after suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen set off an explosion and stormed another popular Mogadishu hotel, killing at 13 people. Two...
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TRIVIALIZING HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN ‘SOMALILAND’
By Liban Ahmad Twenty eight years ago, fighters from the Somali National Movement (hereafter referred to as SNM), attacked Burao and Hargeisa in an attempt to bring to an end to the reign of the former Somali military dictatorship in Togdheer and Northwest regions of the ex-British Somaliland. The response of the Somali Army to SNM attacks, and subsequent human rights violations are the subject of Al Jazeera program, People...