New report details the damaging effects of the NYPD’s Muslim surveillance regime By John Knefel March 11, 2013 Civil liberties groups led by the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition released a new report today detailing the detrimental effects of the NYPD’s spying on Muslim communities in recent years. The report, called Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and...
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Clan politics to spoil battle for Garissa County CEO
By BONIFACE ONGERI Standard Digital Dec 30, 2012 __________ Clan affiliations continue to hold sway in Garissa and are seen to play a key role in shaping governor politics in the March 4 General Election. Aspirants have stepped up campaigns for the position. Rivals have been on campaign mode since 2010 when the new Constitution...
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Towards a balanced and civil discourse
By Abdinasir Amin Dec. 28, 2012 _____________________ I have been thinking about this particular article for a while and must admit that I’ve struggled with it not because it is difficult to write but because of the difficulty and the sensitivity of the subject matter. There is a good maxim in journalism; the cub reporter...
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About Audience Mission Editorial Board Board of Directors WardheerNews Media Group WardheerNews.com Policy WardheerNews.com is an online magazine launched on November 23, 2004. WardheerNews.com was created at a time when information about the East and Horn of Africa, in general, and Somalia, in particular, was limited, scarce and one-sided. WardheerNews.com was created to fill that void....
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The Demise of the BBC Somali Service
I have worked for the BBC Somali Service as a contributor and staff from 1962 to 1977. I still have so much attachment and nostalgia for the Service for what it has done for me personally and what it has provided its Somali listeners. It therefore pains me to see a Service that I was...
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Yussuf Garaad’s Abuse of the BBC Somali Service
By Mohamoud Hassan Much has been written over the past years about the demise of the objectivity and impartiality of the programmes of the BBC Somali Service since Yussuf Garaad was appointed its editor in the late 1990s. It was the hope of all those concerned about the decline of standards that the BBC management...
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Clan Conflicts and the choir of warmongers
WardheerNews Editorial February 3, 2006 We at WardheerNews express our disappointment to the elders and leaders of the Arab and Reer Isaaq sub-clans whose mediation efforts come to a halting crash. It would have been a positive conclusion to the fueling feud if a settlement were reached at San Dhoore village in the Somali Regional...
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Somali Women in the Diaspora: Women in Minneapolis
By Yasmeen Maxmuud Traditional Somali history has not been kind to Somali women and has often associated the term “Naag” with their weakness. All the demise of the family would be associated with the limitation of women. A countless number of proverbs as well as Somali poems has traditionally portrayed women as weak beings that...