Author Archives: sayfudiin Abdalle

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- More than 2.4 million electorates have been registered to cast votes in the forthcoming national elections in Somali regional state, regional branch office of the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia said. Office head, Mohamoud Habib told ENA on Monday that the stated number of voters were registered in 2712 polling stations since March 19-April...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Rap doesn’t usually lend itself to modesty. Particularly when the genre’s narratives involve struggle, hardship or killing. Yet K’naan broached those themes and more Sunday at a sold-out Metro while displaying a humble attitude that matched his tender, boyish singing. The slender Somali-born MC — whose adopted name means...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Dahabshiil, the UK’s leading money transfer provider to the Horn of Africa, has received the Mayor of Tower Hamlets Award for excellence in the community. The award, presented by the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Councilor Ahmed Adam Omer, recognises Dahabshiil’s dedication and outstanding contribution to the local, national and international...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):-Bartamaha (Nairobi):- President of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Monday left for Uganda for talks on possible government offensive against Islamist militants in Somalia, government sources confirmed to APA. A presidential aide who demanded anonymity told APA by telephone that President Sheikh Sharif’s...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Waxaa Maanta markale Heshiis wada gaaray Dawlada Puntland ee Soomaaliyeed & Dawlada Kumeel gaarka ah,waxaana Heshiiskan lagu tilmaamay mid isfagard. Heshiiskan ay Maamulka Puntland iyo Dowladda KMG ay kala saxiixdeen waxa goob joob ka ahaa Bulshada Caalamka, Dublumaasiyiin iyo dowladdaha daneeya arrimaha Soomaaliya. Heshiiskan oo ka koobnaa 5-Qodob...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A U.S. warship captured six suspected pirates Saturday after a battle off the Horn of Africa — the Navy’s third direct encounter with seafaring bandits in less than two weeks. The Navy has taken at least 21 suspected pirates since March 31 in the violence-plagued waters off Somalia and nearby regions, where U.S. warships are part of...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Heavy shelling between Islamist fighters and Somali government forces killed at least 16 people in Mogadishu Monday, medical sources and witnesses said. The shelling started in the afternoon when the insurgents fired mortars at the presidential palace and the airport during a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the country?s national army. Government...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A national disgrace — that’s the prevailing impression of the Canadian Forces deployment to Somalia in 1992-93. The infamous incident involving the Canadian paratroopers who tortured and killed a Somali youth is seared into the national consciousness. Because of this and a few other incidents, the engagement has been called “Canada’s...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The recent report by the UN Monitoring Group on Somali (The EastAfrican, March 29-April 4) linking the Kenyan government to the Somali crisis should set off alarm bells not only in Kenya but in the region at large. That Kenya agreed to train 2,500 Kenyan and Somali youths for the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) shows how deeply involved the...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Moderate Islamists in Somalia have rejected the invite to the leader of terror group al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden by radical Islamists to the wartorn country. The Council of Ahlu Sunna wal-Jamea, a moderate Islamist group of Sufis that has been fighting the radical Islamists, namely al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam vowed to oppose the visit. A week ago,...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Lech Kaczynski, the late President of Poland, returned home today to a country struck dumb with grief and confusion. The air crash yesterday that wiped out the head of state, the chief of the general staff, the chairman of the security services, the central bank governor and Solidarity heroes has left Poland reeling, unsteady and uncertain. As the...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Muqdisho):- Munaasabad xilka looga qaadayay xubnihii hore ee Maamulka Xisbul Islaam ee degmada Afgooye islamarkaana xubno cusub loogu magacaabayay Maamulkaasi ayaa gelinkii dambe ee maanta waxa ay ka dhacday xarunta maamulka Xisbul Islaam ee degmada Afgooye. Waxaan dhanka kalle Munaasabadaasi goob joog ka ahaa Hogaamiyaha Ururka Xisbul Islaam Sheekh Xasan...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Somali Information Minister Tahir Mahmud Gelle has stated to Asharq Al-Awsat that his country will provide what is necessary to ensure freedom of expression. He added that his Somalia is also ready to help the BBC and Voice of America (VOA) transmit their programs in Mogadishu as usual. The Somalia Information Minister was reacting to an unexpected...Continue reading »

Bartmaha (Moscow):- The Polish president Lech Kaczynski died after his plane crashed as it approached a Russian airport, killing 130 people. Poland was left stunned by the news that their president, his wife, and a whole swath of the Polish elite had been killed. A television newsreader fought back tears as she relayed the news that the head of the Polish army and the...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Somali journalists Hassan Ali Gesey and Abdihakim Jimale are roommates these days, living in a tiny, graffiti-ridden room in Nairobi, Kenya. Neither would have wanted to eke out an existence like this, but dire circumstances brought them together—starting with the night three years ago that Gesey saved Jimale’s life. Gesey, who was...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Ciyaar aad u xiiso badaneyd oo ka dhacday garoonka la yiraahdo Gulled Stadium ee dalka Jabuuti oo ay kuwada Ciyaareen Xulalka Qaranka Soomaaliya iyo Kenya islamarkaana ka tirsaneyd Xulka 17-jirada Koobka isreereebkiisa ayaa waxaa guul weyn ka gaartay Xulka Qaranka ee Wadanka Soomaaliya. Ciyaarta oo aheyd Ciyaar aad u xiiso badneyd ayaa Xulka Qaranka...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Somalis are fleeing fighting around Mogadishu but fewer are reaching safe havens in Yemen or Kenya due to rising insecurity and fears of recruitment by Islamist insurgents on the way, the U.N. refugee agency said. Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels are waging a deadly insurgency against the Western-backed transitional government and...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Gudoomiyaha barlamanka ku meel gaarka Soomaaliya Sheekh Aadan Madoobe ayaa magaalada Addis Ababa ee dalka Ethiopia kulan la qaatay raisul wasaaraha Ethiopia Meles Zenawi. Meles Zanawi iyo Sheekh Madoobe ayaa ka wada hadlay xiriirka labada dal iyadoo Sheekh Aadan Madoobe uu Meles ku amaanay taageerada uu u hayo dowladda Soomaaliya iyadoo kullanka...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Reports say negotiations for the release of a South Korean supertanker hijacked by Somali pirates have begun. Authorities say Somali pirates hijacked the 300,000-ton Samho Dream in the Indian Ocean on Sunday. The ship was transporting crude oil worth about $160 million from Iraq to the U.S. with a crew of 24 South Koreans and Filipinos. South Korea’s...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- For centuries, Somalis used poetry and songs to pass protest messages to powerful rulers they were too afraid to confront directly. Now, some young Somalis are using rap to speak out against Islamists who they say are using religion to wage war in their country. The 11-member Waayaha Cusub band, currently in exile in neighbouring Kenya, wants its...Continue reading »