By: MAYA RAO and ERIC ROPER A public housing forum Thursday was largely tame until Mark Andrew shot back at Cam Winton’s answer to a question about creating programs specifically aimed at Somali ex-convicts — one of the first times Andrew has jabbed back at Winton, a frequent critic. Winton had said he believed in “colorblind ladders of...
November 14, 2026
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Here Comes Khaatumo 3 Conference, Long Live Somali Unity
By Osman Hassan Khaatumo State of Somalia was born in January 2012 in the famous town Taleex, the citadel of the Darwiish movement, in a hostile environment where its enemies, Somaliland and Puntland, were united by their common desire to abort its birth right from its inception and derail its development ever since . It...
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How the US raid on al-Shabaab in Somalia went wrong
Abdalle Ahmed in Mogadishu, Spencer Ackerman in Washington and David Smith in Johannesburg As a mother of young children, Fadumo Sheikh is used to rising early. Last Saturday she was due to prepare their breakfasts before they went to the local madrasa. But the day started earlier than ever when, at around 2am, she was...
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Norway’s Somalis Worry Extremism Is Spreading
By Karl Ritter Somali immigrants in Norway fear that violent extremism is taking root in the community after reports of young Somali-Norwegians travelling abroad to join jihadist groups. One of the gunmen in the Nairobi, Kenya, mall attack that killed 67 people last month has been identified as Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, a 23-year-old Norwegian citizen...
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A true-life tale of injustice left trailing in Captain Phillips’ wake
Stolen Seas director highlights plight of Somali-American ransom negotiator in Tom Hanks blockbuster now in a US jail awaiting trial on piracy Daniel Howden in Nairobi As film-goers head to the cinema to watch Captain Phillips, the Hollywood action thriller about Somali piracy, Ishmael Ali will not be among them. Ali is the protagonist of a different film also...
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Uganda: Free Pass on High-Level Corruption
Kampala, (HRW)- The government of Uganda has failed to hold to account senior officials implicated in the theft and diversion of public funds, Human Rights Watch and Yale Law School’s Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic said in a joint report released today. No high-ranking government official, minister, or political appointee has ever served...
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Somalis Fear South African Violence More Than War at Home
By Franz Wild Ali Omar Mohamed fled Somalia’s civil war two years ago to seek a better life in South Africa. Now after being robbed at gunpoint and seeing scores of his countrymen murdered in xenophobic violence, he’s ready to leave. Mohammed, a 21-year-old shopkeeper, is part of a growing tide of immigrants who say they prefer...
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Norwegian friends, family describe Kenya mall attack suspect
By Robyn Dixon and Alexandra Sandels JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A Somali-born Norwegian said to be a suspect in a deadly assault on a Kenyan shopping mall was described Friday by former classmates and others who knew him as an observant Muslim who struggled to fit in after his family fled their troubled homeland. Norway’s...
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Ethiopia: Political Detainees Tortured
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian authorities have subjected political detainees to torture and other ill-treatment at the main detention center in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian government should take urgent steps to curb illegal practices in the Federal Police Crime Investigation Sector, known as Maekelawi, impartially investigate allegations of abuse, and hold those responsible to account. The 70-page...
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Mo Farah: ‘I could walk around naked and nobody would recognise me’
The Olympic champion on why he never wants to do another Mobot, how he avoided prison and the army, and why the Daily Mail almost cost him his gold medals By Tim Jonze It’s neck and neck at the halfway point. I get the better start, but Mo Farah – a man renowned for his strong finish –...