BY ELIAS MESERET ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, An Ethiopian court on Friday sentenced co-pilot Hailemedhin Abera to 19 years in prison for hijacking a plane bound for Rome and taking it to Geneva. The court said Monday it had issued a public notice for the 31-year-old to appear in court but he failed to show up....
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Somalis upset as racial unrest builds at St. Cloud Tech High
BY MAYA RAO Somali students say the school’s officials haven’t done enough to stop harassment by classmates. Somali students try to negotiate with a St. Cloud police officer guarding the front door of Tech High School on Friday. Tensions in the St. Cloud school district between whites and Somali students boiled over this week as...
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Portland man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to become an FBI informant
Yonas Fikre, who attends a mosque where at least nine of its members have been barred from flying, says the US no-fly list is being used to intimidate American Muslims into spying on behalf of US authorities Yonas Fikre is suing the FBI after he says it tried to coerce him into spying on his...
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Somalia: Al Shabaab Ignored And Abandoned
Defectors and captured al Shabaab members report that that group’s leaders are dismayed that other Islamic terror groups like ISIL (al Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant) in Syria and Boko Haram in Nigeria are crowding al Shabaab out of the media. Al Shabaab needs that media attention for fund raising and recruiting, both of...
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Remembering Said S. Samatar: Death prevents you from Thinking
By Faisal A. Roble The late Said Samatar On 14th of March in 1883, Fredrick Engels eulogized Karl Marx: “the greatest living thinker ceased to think.” Likewise, on February 24, 2015, Said Sheikh Samatar, Somalia’s reputed historian ceased to tell Somali stories. Our own “waayeel,” or sage, in the tradition of the late Muse Galaal...
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Somali chairman clarifies on ID registration for Somalis in Uganda
Kampala Deputy RCC Allan Kajik chats with Somali Community in Uganda chairman Hussein Hassan Abukar during a recent security meeting in Kisenyi. PHOTO/Patrick Jaramogi The Somali Community Chairman in Uganda has denied soliciting money from Somalis for registration of National Identity Cards. Hussein Abukar Hassan was reacting to reports from a local tabloid that accused...
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Midwives trained in China bring solace to Somali women
MOGADISHU, When China constructed the maternity wing of Somalia’sbiggest public referral hospital over four decades ago, little did they know that thisdepartment would stand to be the source of hope for Somali mothers. The dream of providing quality and affordable maternity services for Somali women didnot stop there, as several Somalis flew to China to...
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The true cost of media restrictions in Somalia
MOGADISHU, (IRIN) – The dangers and pressures journalists face in Somalia undermine coverage of not only sensitive political stories but also important humanitarian issues. Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist,according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Fifty-six have been killed there since 1992, five of them...
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Ethiopia’s TACON Completes Somaliland’s New Airport Terminal and Fence with 80m Br
By BROOK ABDU Tekleberhan Ambaye Construction Plc (TACON) has completed the construction of its first out-of-country contract of Berbera International Airport terminal and 12Km perimeter fence at a cost of 80 million Birr in Somaliland gaining a profit of only three million Br. The construction, which began a year ago, was finalized in a joint...
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Angry local Somalis allege racial profiling, harassment at airports
By: PAUL MCENROE and ALLISON SHERRY Mohamed Farah has testified before Congress, conferred with the State Department and met with the secretary of Homeland Security. Two weeks ago, he was among a select group invited to the White House for President Obama’s counterterrorism summit. But despite security clearances from the FBI and the U.S. Secret...