Author Archives: sayfudiin Abdalle

Bartamaha (Toronto):- Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed works as a security guard at an apartment complex in Toronto’s Little Mogadishu neighborhood. It can be a slow job, sitting at the gatehouse, but nobody could call him inexperienced. Before he returned to Toronto last year, the 35-year-old Canadian spent six months with the Somali militant group Al-Shabab. He trained...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):-THE Kenya Government is secretly giving military training to 2,500 Somali youth, the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia has concluded. Kenya has not officially informed the UN Security Council of the training programme and “in a reply dated 23 February 2010 to a Monitoring Group query on this subject, the Government of Kenya denied that...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):-The Turkish parliament speaker said on Wednesday that Somalia should fight against piracy more seriously Turkey’s Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Åžahin said Somali security forces should carry out a more serious fight against piracy at the Gulf of Aden. “Somalia should not be a country associated with piracy,” Åžahin said during...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Washington):- A top US official on Friday denied reports of a boost in US military aid to Somalia’s transitional federal government (TFG), and said there was no intention to “Americanize” the conflict in the horn of Africa. “We have provided limited military support to the TFG… (but) the US does not plan, does not direct, and does...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Somalia’s president on Tuesday blasted a recent United Nations report that characterized the government’s security forces as ineffective and corrupt and said that as much as half thefood aid to the country was routinely stolen. The president, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, said that much of the information in the report “was not trustful”...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Mogadishu):- Kadib Shir Jaraa’id oo uu ku qabtay magaalada Muqdisho ayuu madaxweyne shariif ku sheegay in uu ku faraxsanyahay Midnimada dhaxmartay Ahlusuna iyo dowlada KMG Somalia. Mar uu Madaxeyne Shariif Sh.Axmed ka hadlayay Heshiiskii ay Shalay Magaalada Addis-ababa kusoo kala saxiixdeen Dowladda Soomaaliya iyo Culumaa’udiinka Ahlu-Sunna...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The Bush administration’s top Africa policymaker sees little new about President Barack Obama’s approach to Somalia. “There’s not much variation in policy at all, despite our being attacked on Somalia during the campaign,” says Jendayi Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African affairs during President George...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A 22-YEAR-OLD Somali man has received more than $70,000 in compensation over his claim that he was the victim of a police assault and malicious prosecution. The Age has learnt that the payment to Ahmed Dini was part of an out-of-court settlement that the police force agreed to last month after a civil case for assault against two officers and the...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Somali pirates have released a chemical tanker and its 28 North Korean crew, maritime officials say. The Singapore-operated MV Theresa VIII was seized in November in the south Somali Basin north of the Seychelles. Andrew Mwangura, of the East African Seafarers Assistance Programme, said a ransom of about $3.5m (£2.3m) had been paid, Reuters news...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Adis Ababa):- Somalia’s government on Monday agreed to bring one of the country’s militia groups on board ahead of an expected military push against Islamist rebels threatening to topple the administration. Two insurgent groups have been fighting the Horn of Africa nation’s government since the start of 2007 and the Western-backed administration...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Jon Tollefon oo ka tirsan Mas’uuliyiinta Xafiiska arrimaha Bulshada qeebtisa Africa ee dowladda Mareekanka xaruntiisuna tahay magaaladda Washington ayaa maanta wariyaasha Soomaalida ah kula hadlay magaaladda Nairobi oo uu Jon Tollefon ku joogo safar gaaban isagoona ka warbixiyay warbixintii sanadlaha aheed oo ay soo bandhigtay Heyadda Xuquuqda...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):-Wararka naga soo gaaraya magaalada Addis Ababa ee xarunta dalka Ethiopia ayaa sheegaya in goor dhoweyd booliska Addis Ababa ay xayiraad ku soo rogeen afhayeenkii Ahlu Sunna ee Europe Maxamed Xuseen Awliyo. Afhayeenka ayaa sida la sheegay lagu xanibay hotelkiisa ka dib markii uu isku dayey inuu ka qeybgalo xaflada ay heshiis ku wada saxiixayaan dowlada...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The Kenyan border guards have started operations to capture the Somalis with out Kenyan nationalities in Mandere town, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Monday. Locals in Mandere, which is in the border between Somalia and Kenya told Shabelle radio that the troops began to detain the Somali teenagers those had no Kenyan identities from the town adding...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Bosaaso):- Shir jaraa’iid oo uu maanta ku qabtay magaalada Boosaaso ee xarunta gobolka Bari Xildhibaan Saciid Xasan Shire oo kamid ah Mudanayaasha Baarlamaanka KMG Soomaaliya kana soo jeeda gobolka Sanaag ayaa waxa uu ku dhaawaqay in uu isaga baxay kamid ahaanshiyaha Baarlamaanka KMG ee Soomaaliya islamarkaana uu iska casilay xilkii uu ka hayay. Xildhibaan...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Mogadishu ):- A high delegation led by the president of the transitional government Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed has Monday returned to the Somali capital Mogadishu, just after visiting several countries in abroad. Officials told Shabelle radio that the president had left from the Kenyan capital Nairobi and landed at the international airport of Aden Adde in Mogadishu...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Karachi, Pakistan):- Xaflad qalin jabin ah oo ay soo agaasimeen Ururka waddaniga Soomaaliyeed ee Somali Nationalists Organization (SONO) ayaa loogu qabtay magalada karachi ee dalka Pakistan,Ardey Soomaaliyeed isagu jira Wiilal iyo Gabdho kuwaa oo dhammaystay waxbarshadooda heerka jaamacadeed. Xafladaan qalin jabinta ah ee uu soo qaban qaabiyay Ururka Waddaniga...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Eritrea continued to support last year armed Islamist groups fighting the Somalian government in violation of an arms embargo and new UN sanctions, UN experts concluded in a report. In 2009 “the government of Eritrea has continued to provide political, diplomatic, financial and — allegedly — military assistance to armed opposition...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Mogadishu):- Fighting between two clans in central Somalia over land and water killed at least 11 people and wounded several others on Saturday, a rights group said. The two clans have been fighting over land and water in recent weeks in Mudug and the latest clash was about 110 km northeast of Dhusamareb, provincial capital of Galgadud. “At least 11 people...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Minnesota):- The Facebook group, “I hate the Somalians at Tech High,” didn’t live online for a long time, but word traveled fast among high school students in the St. Cloud area. Sahra Alin Ahmed, a Somali student and freshman at Apollo High School, wasn’t surprised by the group’s views as she regularly hears them on campus. The...Continue reading »

Bartamaha  (Colombus):- Columbus police arrested a North Side man this morning for the aggravated murder of a Somali man on Feb. 8. Police said they arrested Anthony M. Parker, 46, at his apartment, 4900 Northtowne Blvd., Apt. 219, without incident. He’s charged with shooting Ahmed Nur, 28, in the stairway of an apartment building at 4600 Northtowne Blvd. Police...Continue reading »