Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The Ethiopian troops who recently entered in Elberde district in Bakol region have jailed more well-known Somali clerics there in southern Somalia, witnesses, officials told Shabelle radio on Friday. Residents confirmed that about 15 famous clerics had been arrested by the Ethiopian troops who were continuing operations in parts of the district since...Continue reading »
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Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A Somali refugee living in Charlottetown is hoping the public will help her after she lost all the money she had to live on for the next month. Ubah Ali and her seven children arrived on the Island last summer, sponsored by the First Baptist Church. Every month, Ali receives a cheque for $2,200 from the federal government — enough to pay...Continue reading »
———- Bartamaha (Nairobi):- At least five explosions struck the business district of Bangkok on Thursday evening, killing one person and wounding at least 75 others as rival groups of protesters rallied and shouted insults at each other across a military barricade. Two explosions went off on a raised walkway of Bangkok’s elevated train system and...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):-Valero Energy wasn’t too worried earlier this month when a gang of Somali pirates hijacked the supertanker Samho Dream, which was carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil from Iraq to Valero’s refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The cargo was insured and Valero has plenty of time to find backup crude. More concerned was Samho Shipping, the...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Students stayed home from school and traders closed their shops Thursday after Islamist militants said they would attack a rare political gathering — a meeting of Somalia’s parliament. The militant al-Shabab group even warned teachers nearby not to hold class. Parliament wound up canceling the session for the second time this week. Parliament...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- - The beheaded bodies of five builders have been found in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and at least 11 people were killed in fighting in the central region, residents and moderate militia fighters said on Wednesday. Mogadishu residents said they suspected al Shabaab militants executed the builders for helping to construct Somalia’s new...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Piracy incidents are dropping worldwide, but the hijackers are expanding their area of operation, the International Maritime Bureau said in a report issued on Wednesday. There were 67 incidents of piracy reported worldwide during the first quarter of the year, 35 of which were conducted by Somali pirates. That’s a striking drop from the 102...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The Transitional Federal Government yesterday ordered the closure of two radio stations in Mogadishu. The affected independent media, Somaliweyn and Tusmo, operate in the section of the capital controlled by the government. Abukar Kadaf, the Director of Somaliweyn in North Mogadishu said security agents produced a warrant, ordering him to close the...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Minnesota):- Guilty plea in threats to Somalis A New Hope man has pleaded guilty to making terroristic threats for posting on Craigslist that he would bring his rifle for target practice to a Somali cultural event in St. Cloud. James Scott Miller, 49, had already told police he posted the threat in response to a Craigslist advertisement for a Somali cultural...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Venezuelan world lightweight boxing champion Edwin Valero committed suicide in his prison cell after being arrested for the murder of his wife, according to the World Boxing Council (WBC). The 28-year-old had confessed to stabbing his wife Jennifer Carolina Viera de Valero in a hotel in the city of Valencia on Sunday before taking his own life, police...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Somali pirates hijacked three Thai fishing vessels with 77 crew aboard more than 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) off the Somali coast, the farthest-off-shore attack to date, the EU Naval Force said Tuesday. Pirates have expanded their range south and east in response to an increase in patrols by European and American warships off the Somali shore. The...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie today expressed her concern for the lives and the well-being of thousands of displaced people who are trapped in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. More than 170,000 Somalis have been forced from their homes across the country since the beginning of the year. Scores have been killed or injured in recent weeks...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Muqdisho):- Maamulka Xisbul Islaam ee degmada Afgooye ee gobolka Sh/hoose ayaa Dumarka Beeraleyda ee Degmada Afgoye ku amray in ay xirtaan Jalbaab adag iyo in Magaaladda gudaheeda aan la soo marsiin karin Makiilada lagu falo beeraha. Sidoo kale wareegtadaasi ayaa lagu sheegay in gudaha degmada Afgooye aan lagu dhex arki karin sigaarka...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global voice of journalists, has expressed fresh concern over efforts on all sides in Somalia to wipe out independent media. The intervention follows a serious deterioration of the situation for private media outlets operating out of Somalia’s densely populated and war-torn capital city...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- HRW criticises actions of Shebab, Somali transitional government, African Union forces. Somalia’s armed group the Shebab has subjected people in the south of the country to killings, cruel punishments, and repressive social control, a rights group said Monday. Human Rights Watch also criticised both the transitional government in Mogadishu...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Muqdisho):-Ururka Ahlu Sunna Wal Jameecah ayaa maanta magaalada Muqdisho kaga dhawaaqay maamul cusub oo ururkaasi hoos imaan doona kaasi oo ka hawlgali doona gobolka Banaadir. Xaflad ballaaran oo maanta ka dhacday xarunta maamulka gobolka Banaadir ayna ka qeybgaleen masuuliyiin ka tirsan dowlada ku meel gaarka iyo ururka Ahlu Sunna oo ku sugan magaalada Muqdisho...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Turkey’s military says navy commandos aboard a frigate have captured 13 pirates in the Indian Ocean. The military says the commandos aboard Turkey’s TCG Gelibolu stopped the pirate vessel on Sunday as it sailed off the Seychelles on a route being used by a Turkish freighter heading to Mombassa, Kenya. The commandos captured the pirates,...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The Somali football federation (SFF) has unveiled that last year’s FIFA high level training for Somali soccer coaches held in Djibouti has yielded good results in terms of progressing football activities in the war-ravaged horn of African country. Secretary General for Somali football federation Mr. Abdiqani Arab said in a press conference...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):-A patrolling Kenyan police has a night ago mercilessly tortured a Somali youth at Eastleigh in Niariobi Kenya. Somaliweyn website has pursued what has exactly brought the killing of the Somali youth, and managed to reach Halima Adan who is the maternal aunt of the deceased Somali youth. “The boy has just recently arrived in Nairobi, and has...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Muqdisho):- Wafdiga oo uu hogaaminayeen Madaxweynaha dowladda KMG ee Soomaaliya Sheekh Shariif Sheekh Axmed iyo gudoomiyaha Barlamanka Sheekh Aadan Max’ed Nuur Madoobe ayaa Maanta waxaa ay soo cagadhigteen Garoonka diyaaradaha ee Magaalada Muqdisho iyagoo ka soo kicitimay Magaalada Nairobi ee xarunta wadanka Kenya. Madaxweynaha iyo gudoomiyaha barlamaanka...Continue reading »
