Haqhawo Qaasim holds a photo of Guled Ali Omar, a defendant in an Islamic State recruitment trial, while standing in front of the courthouse in Minneapolis. (Elizabeth Flores / Star Tribune) By Matt Pearce It wasn’t hard to see who the outsiders in the courtroom seemed to be. All the jurors were white, the prosecutors...
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May 21, 2016May 21, 2016Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
The $1 Million Patek, an Ethiopian Emperor and a Prosecutor
By Hugo Miller Haile Selassie poses with cheetahs in front of the Jubilee Palace in Addis Ababa in 1962. Source: CBS via Getty Images Geneva prosecutors are preparing to release a Patek Phillipe watch that once belonged to Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, ushering in a new phase of the battle between Christie’s auction house, a...
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May 17, 2016May 17, 2016News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
Key Witness Cross Examined in Minnesota Islamic State Case
Undated file photo provided the Sherburne County, Minn., Sheriff’s Office shows Abdirahman Yasin Daud, one of several Minnesota men accused of conspiring to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group. BY Megan Duzor The U.S. trial of three Somali Americans accused of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State group entered...
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May 16, 2016May 16, 2016News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
War-Weary Somalis Flee for Europe as Rebuilding Too Slow
By Mohamed Sheikh Nor A man from Somalia wearing a blanket over his shoulders leaves a makeshift camp near the Greek-Macedonian border. Photographer: Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images When hundreds of Somalis were reported drowned in the Mediterranean last month, Abdi Deeq didn’t rethink his plans to flee the Horn of Africa nation and risk the...
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May 12, 2016May 12, 2016Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Ethiopian journalist: ‘I was jailed and tortured’
He is one of Ethiopia’s most critical journalists. Muluken Tesfaw is in Europe and too scared to return. He doesn’t want to share his location, but talked to DW about press freedom declining dramatically in his country. According to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), released late last year, the number of...
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May 10, 2016May 10, 2016Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow
Trump says London mayor Sadiq Khan could be ‘exception’ to Muslim ban
Republican presidential candidate wants temporary ban on Muslims entering the US, but says he was ‘happy’ about Khan’s landslide win in the UK capital London mayor Sadiq Khan says he will visit the US soon, in case Trump wins the November election. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has called for...
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May 8, 2016May 8, 2016News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
Trial opens Monday for three Twin Cities ISIL suspects
The results of a yearslong investigation will be closely watched for clues on how potential homegrown terrorists can be detected. By Stephen Montemayor Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis will pull back the curtain this week on one of the nation’s largest terrorism recruitment cases, as three young Somali-American men go to trial on charges that they...
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May 7, 2016May 7, 2016News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
Exclusive: U.S.-funded Somali intelligence agency has been using kids as spies
A 15-year-old al-Shabab defector stands in early April in the Elman Center, a facility in Mogadishu that rehabilitates former child combatants. The boy and several others said they were forced to work as informants for the Somali intelligence agency. (Kevin Sieff/The Washington Post) By Kevin Sieff MOGADISHU, Somalia — For years they were children at...
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“Like Fish in Poisonous Waters” Attacks on Media Freedom in Somalia
Summary The authorities, the public, and the militants are all hostile to us. We are like fish in poisonous waters, we can be attacked or killed at any time. -Journalist working in Galkayo, February 2015. On October 12, 2014, Abdirisak Jama Elmi, known as “Black,” a veteran journalist working for the private Somali Channel TV,...
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May 3, 2016May 3, 2016News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
Minneapolis Somali-American and Muslim leaders speak out against racial profiling
Twin Cities leaders praised a TSA whistleblower for stepping forward with bias allegations. By Beatrice Dupuy Ilhan Omar, who is running for state representative, looks on at a news conference Tuesday to address the alleged profiling of Muslims by the TSA at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. LEILA NAVIDI – STAR TRIBUNE Twin Cities Somali-American and...