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Article by: ALEJANDRA MATOS The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled the city did not discriminate against a Minneapolis couple looking to open a Somali wedding venue. The City of St. Paul can move forward with the demolition of the Moonlight Magic bar, a vacant building in Frogtown that a Minneapolis couple was trying to restore into a Somali wedding...

Authorities piece together story of 15-year-old, now hospitalised, who survived five-hour flight in the wheel well of a jet A 15-year-old boy scrambled over a fence at the San Jose International Airport and survived a five-hour flight to Hawaii by stowing away on a plane. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP AN JOSE, California (AP) He was young,...

Flight path for plane carrying stowaway. The mother of Yahya Abdi, the Somali-American teen, who stowed away in the wheel well of a Hawaii-bound flight from California, says her son was trying to reach her in Africa. Speaking to VOA’s Somali service from “Sheed Dheer” a refugee camp in eastern Ethiopia, Ubah Mohamed Abdulle, expressed...

 Al-Shabaab group has killed two lawmakers and threatened to target more By Yassin Juma NAIROBI Somali lawmakers, fearing for their lives following the assassination of two colleagues in capital Mogadishu, are urging the government to provide them with protection. “It is proving to be difficult to conduct parliament business as some MPs have raised concern...

Al Jazeera investigation uncovers allegations of beatings and rape in Kenya’s ongoing anti-terrorism operation. Malkhadir Muhumed Some Somali families have locked themselves in their homes during the operation [Malkhadir Muhumed/Al Jazeera] Nairobi, Kenya – In Eastleigh, a mostly Somali area of Nairobi, residents say they constantly look over their shoulders when entering grocery stores, to make...

National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Bare Duale has been a vocal spokesman of the Jubilee Government, supporting its agenda and programmes zealously. However, his recent criticism of the current security operation in the war against terror appear to have put him at odds with the political establishment he secured. The Standard On Sunday’s Senior Political...

POLICE have raided the home of a Muslim who went on TV praising his dead brother for fighting “holy war” in Syria. By Dominik Lemanski and Neil Doyle TARGET: Mustakim during his interview on Newsnight [IG/BBC] Mustakim Jaman was on Newsnight in December to talk about his older sibling Ifthekar – who boasted of fighting a...

Nairobi,  – Kenyan police and other security agencies should stop arbitrary arrests and detentions, extortion, and other abuses against Somalis during security operations,  Human Rights Watch said today. The government should also halt summary deportations and ensure that any undocumented Somalis are given the opportunity to file asylum claims. On April 4 and 8, 2014,...

In this Monday, Feb. 5, 2007 photo, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, writer of the film “Submission,” which criticized the treatment of women in traditional Islam and led to the murder of Dutch film director Theo Van Gogh, talks to a reporter in New York. (AP Photo/Shiho Fukada) BOSTON — After taking heat from some of its own...