Bartamaha (Ottawa):- it’s a brutal trend that has gone on for too long. Over and over again, Canadians of Somali descent have ended up dead in Alberta as a result of violence. The latest victims were Idiris Abess, 23, and Saed Adad, 22. The two men were found dead in a Fort McMurray apartment complex last week. Both were known to police. Police said Adad was from...Continue reading »
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Bartamaha (COLUMBUS, Ohio):- Somalia must rekindle its diplomatic relationship with the United States to help rebuild the country and protect the security of both countries, the first Somali diplomat assigned to the United States in two decades said in an interview. Abukar Arman, appointed the Somali U.S. special envoy on Feb. 6, plans to re-establish the ties that disintegrated...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Turkey’s IHH said its health teams of doctors performed cataract operations on 929 more people in Somalia. Turkey’s IHH said its health teams of doctors performed cataract operations on 929 more people in Somalia, increasing the total number of those who can see the light after aid in the whole African continent has reached 34 thousand...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Mogadishu):-. Meydadka 3 qof ayaa maanta barqadii waxaa la keenay Isgoyska Bakaaraha ee magaalada Muqdisho iyadoona 3-dani ruux la sheegay in Meydkooda laga helay xaafadaha ku teedsan degmada Hodan ee gobolka Banaadir. Qaar kamid ah dadka ku dhaqan qeybo kamid ah degmada Hodan ee gobolka Banaadir ayaa u sheegeen in ragani ay soo toogteen Ciidamada AMISOM ee...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Afhayeen u hadlay burcadbadeeda Soomaaliya ayaa sheegay in lamaanaha u dhashay dalka Britain ee lagu haysto Gobolka Mudug ay sii dayntoodu ku xiran tahay iyadoo la siidaayo 176-Burcabadbadeed oo Soomaali ah. “Calaamka waxaa la weyn labada qof ee laga haysto Ingiriiska, innagana waxaa nala weyn dadka naga xirxiran oo aan ku sifeyn karo kuwo...Continue reading »
International anger is rising over claims that Israel engineered the killing of a Hamas official in Dubai. Australian and European officials have expressed outrage at the forgery of passports for use by the hit squad. And public fury is evident, as seen in the shocking treatment received by Michael Oren, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, during a recent lecture...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Chacon has done a review of the agenda discussed during these two days with ministers of defence in the EU, including the status of ongoing missions such as the Atalanta operation to combat piracy off Somalia and Operation Althea, Bosnia. Spain will lead an EU mission to train the security forces of Somalia Defense Minister, Carme Chacon, has announced...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A spokesman for the EU Naval Force says that a ransom has been delivered by parachute to Somali pirates holding a Singaporean-flagged chemical tanker. Cmdr. John Harbour says he does not know how much money was paid for the release of the chemical tanker Pramoni. The ship was seized on Jan. 1 with 24 crew members from China, India, Nigeria and Vietnam. Harbour...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A Yemeni fisherman was killed by Somali pirates when the pirates tried to seize his fishing vessel off Somali coast of Bargal, Yemeni Interior Ministry said on Thursday. In a statement, the ministry quoted the coastguard authorities in the southeastern province of Hadramout as saying that the fishing boat carried nine Yemeni fishermen when it left...Continue reading »
On February 24, Russia’s Pacific Fleet dispatched the large anti-submarine warship Marshal Shaposhnikov, a rescue tugboat and the Pechenga tanker to fight pirates off the Somali coast. In addition to their crew, there are marines on board the auxiliary vessels and the Marshal Shaposhnikov is carrying two helicopters. The vessels, led by Captain 1st Rank Ildar Akhmerov,...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Somalia has made progress restoring state institutions and accountability and its administration can now handle more funds directly, the African Union’s deputy head of mission to Somalia said. For nearly two decades, the Horn of Africa nation has had no functional central government and its transitional administration controls only sections...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Islamist insurgents blindfolded journalist Ibrahim Mohamed Hussein, tied his hands behind his back and ordered him to face Mecca. Then a man put a knife to his throat. A last-second phone call spared Hussein’s life. His family had paid an $18,000 ransom. After the attack he fled to Uganda, leaving behind his wife and three children. “I’m...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (London):- FOUR ‘greedy and cynical’ members of the same family, who were convicted of running a nationwide scam which allowed immigrants to apply for UK passports under false pretences, have been sent to jail. Liban Mohammed Yousif, aged 34, of Holywell Heights, Brightside, his brother Abdirashid Yusuf, 37, of Norwood Drive, Norwood, Mubarak Yusuf,...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Columbus):- I was recently sent an alarming article entitled “Va. man accused of helping smuggle Somalis into U.S.†It details how a 35-year-old man, Anthony Joseph Tracy, facilitated the illegal entry of some 270 aliens who are citizens of Somalia. Somalia is a country that has become associated with terrorist activities, including piracy on the...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Two crew members died when Somali pirates hijacked the Taiwanese fishing trawler Win Far No.161, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday. The two were an Indonesian and a Chinese national, but the precise time and circumstances of their deaths were not clear, MOFA said. Somali pirates hijacked the 700-ton tuna fishing trawler near the Seychelles...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Vancouver):- it was a warm, wet night in Manhattan in 2006, and K’naan was taking a walk alone, trying to shake off some disturbing news. It might have been something immediate, or perhaps something that had happened in Somalia, where he’s from; he can’t recall what exactly had sent him out into the New York streets. But he remembers how...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (London):- A Somali woman with children in London schools has won a test case to claim benefits even if she is “a burden on the social assistance system”. Nimco Hassan Ibrahim took her case to the European Court of Justice when she was turned down for housing benefit by Harrow Council in north-west London. The judges ruled that a parent with children...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):-Cable has had to be rerouted by 400km to avoid areas associated with pirates. Somali pirates and insecurity off the coast of East Africa will add $6 million to East Africa Submarine Cable System costs to lay its fiber optic cable to Kenya to improve Internet services, the Business Daily newspaper reports Tuesday. “We have had to re-route the...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Toronto):- Members of Toronto’s Somali community are concerned after two Somali-Canadian men were murdered in northern Alberta last week. RCMP investigators said Monday that two men found dead in an apartment complex in Fort McMurray, Alta., last week were victims of homicide. Idiris Abess, 23, and Saed Adad, 22, were found dead on Feb. 17. They were...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (London):- Standing proudly with her arm draped over her 36inch television, this is the Somali woman who must be given a council house even though she has no right to live in Britain. Nimco Hassan Ibrahim – who lives with her four children on benefit handouts – was granted the right to the home by EU judges yesterday because she was once married to...Continue reading »
