By Dayib Sh Ahmed In recent days, the Somali community in Minnesota has been thrust into the center of a vicious and unnecessary political storm. President Donald Trump has once again turned his attention toward Somali Minnesotans, deploying crude attacks rooted in stereotypes, exaggerations, and outright hostility. With every press conference clip, every inflammatory sentence,...
(Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered a broad review of all refugees who entered under former President Joe Biden, an internal U.S. government memo seen by Reuters said, an unprecedented move that could reopen cases of thousands who sought U.S. protection. The order would apply to about 233,000 refugees who entered between January...
ISTANBUL– South Africa is investigating a “mysterious” chartered flight that brought 153 Palestinian refugees into the country without the required documents on Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Friday. “These are people from Gaza who somehow mysteriously were put on a plane that passed by Nairobi (Kenya’s capital) and came here,” Ramaphosa told reporters, adding that...
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — When Oumar Bella Diallo boarded a plane home to the West African nation of Guinea in July, the weary 24-year-old thought his migration ordeal was over. He had spent almost a year trying to reach Europe. He said he was attacked by police and scammed for money as he crossed Mali, Algeria and...
By Abdijaliil Osman A Looming Constitutional Crisis in Mogadishu Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is entering the final stretch of his four-year term with barely six months remaining. Yet instead of preparing for a smooth transfer of power, he appears to be laying groundwork to extend his rule. Elected on May 15, 2022, President Mohamud...
Somali authorities and the international community have repeatedly failed to protect thousands of people from drought-affected communities in southern Somalia, exposing them to violations of their rights to food, water, family, health and life, Amnesty International said in a new report. ‘No rain, no food, no animals: The human rights impact of drought and displacement...
(Reuters) – Fighters riding camels rounded up a couple of hundred men near the Sudanese city of al-Fashir at the weekend and brought them to a reservoir, shouting racial slurs before starting to shoot, according to a man who said he was among them. One of the captors recognized him from his school days and...
My Life Through News Media by Abdullahi Haji. Edited by Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe and Ahmed Sh. Mohamud Reviewed by: Abdiweli GaradAuthor: Abdullahi HajiPublisher: Looh Press LtdPages: 166 pagesPublication date: 2025 Abdullahi Haji’s memoir, My Life Through News Media, is a vital but flawed primary source that offers an unparalleled insider’s view of East African politics and BBC Somali journalism....
Aden — Yemen’s Interior Minister, Major General Ibrahim Haydan, revealed in a televised interview with Al Hadath that some of the Houthi-affiliated cells recently apprehended by security forces have direct ties to Al-Shabaab, the Somalia-based extremist group. The statement marks a significant escalation in concerns over transnational militant cooperation in the region. Speaking during the...
Addis Abeba – The Embassy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in Brussels has expressed strong criticism of a joint statement issued by the European Union Council and Egypt on 22 October 2025, describing the EU’s position as “problematic and deeply disappointing.” “It is important to remember that the River Nile has eleven riparian...