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sayfudiin Abdalle

Am A Somali Journalist current live and study in Malaysia Southeast Asia.

Bartamaha (Mogadishu):- A burst of gunfire which was heard on Friday in the war-ravaged Somali capital of Mogadishu made common Somalis feel uncertain about their future. Somalia, the Horn of Africa nation, has been plagued by civil strife since the overthrow of military strongman Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. Islamist rebels run much of south and center of Somalia while...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Mogadishu):- Dhibaato Beni aadanimo oo aad u daran ayaa soo wajahday Barakacayaasha Beesha Mudulood ee ku Barakacay dhanka Bari ee magaalada Muqdisho kadib markii ay Hilmaameen Hay’adaha Samafalka iyo Dadka deeqda bixiya. Mid kamida Dadka deegaanka ayaa RBC u xaqiijiyay 10 qof oo Barakacayaal ah ay u dhinteen Gaajo iyo nafaqa daro saamayn weyn ku yeelatay...Continue reading »

Somalis are upset that the county attorney backed out of a meeting with them Friday about alleged anti-Somali Internet postings. Mike Freeman says they will meet next week. Bartamaha (Minnesota):- Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and Somali elders were at odds Friday over a postponed meeting to discuss reports of a prosecutor’s misconduct. Freeman said he...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- NAIROBI (AlertNet) – In war-torn Somalia, daily life is a struggle for the 40 percent of the population who rely on humanitarian aid to survive, but in recent months green shoots have started to emerge. Good rains have boosted food production, reducing the number of people dependent on handouts, and meat exports are picking up after Saudi Arabia...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Unprecedented military cooperation among NATO forces, Russia, China and other countries in the Gulf of Aden has helped decrease the number of pirate attacks on ships off the coast of Somalia in the past year, the State Department said Thursday. More than 20 countries are now taking part in an international naval force, and the membership of the Contact...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):-Nearly 20,000 people have been uprooted from their homes in the Somali capital by renewed clashes between the forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and opposition groups since the start of February, the United Nations refugee agency reported today. Earlier this week, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed its alarm at...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Ottawa):- Speding entire cold winter days outside in the snow has become hugely popular among Ottawa immigrants from hot, sunny Somalia, thanks to a successful community ski program. “The kids fell in love with it and it took off and it kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger,” said Mohamed Islam, one of the organizers of the program run out of...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Vancouver):- Canadian musicians are waving the Maple Leaf for Haiti, secretly recording a benefit single for the earthquake-ravaged country. Famed Canadian music producer Bob Ezrin is spearheading the project, which will include Somalian-born Canadian rapper K’naan, performing the K’naan hit song Wavin’ Flag . The recording is taking place...Continue reading »

Ugandan peacekeepers being trained by French Foreign Legion instructors Bartamaha (Nairobi):- More than 1,700 Ugandan Army troops scheduled to take part in peacekeeping operations in Somalia recently completed a training course taught by French Foreign Legion instructors. In Singo County, Uganda, the instructors are finding that turning the Ugandans into disciplined peacekeepers...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- On the night of Sept. 21 last year, U.S. diplomatic staff in South Africa were telephoned at home and told not to go to work the next day. A State Department official refused to explain the warning, but a Western intelligence officer in Africa told TIME the alarm was raised after a phone call from an al-Qaeda operative to a number in Cape Town was...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (London):-Ururka samafalka Caawiye Foundation Trust wuxuu umada soomaaliyeed ugu baaqayaa meel kasta oo ay aduunka ka joogaan in dadka dhibaateysan ee soomaaliyeed oo uu ku habsaday dagaalada Sokeeye ee aan dhamaad lahayn kuna nool gudaha dalka soomaaliya loo gargaaro, sida aad dhamaan la socotaan waxaa shacabka soomaaliyeed soo gaartay dhibaato aan dhamaad...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Residents in Somalia say two Islamist insurgent militias have clashed over control of a southern town. Dhobley is only miles (kilometers) from the border with Kenya and near heavily forested land where fighters can easily hide. Resident Dahir Siyad says hundreds of fighters from Hizbul Islam forced militants from al-Shabab out of town after a pre-dawn...Continue reading »

Iman Omar Yousef arrives at Sutton Coldfield Magistrates' Court yesterday. She has been charged with the murder of her three-year-old daughter Bartamaha (Nairobi):-This is the first picture of the mother accused of murdering her three year old daughter as she arrived for court this morning. Iman Omar Yousef appeared before magistrates at Sutton Coldfield Magistrates court...Continue reading »

sawirka Jaycee Fuller Bartamaha (Nairobi):-Gudiga Maxkamada Sare ee Magaalada Washington ayaa dacwac ku soo oogay Jaycee Fuller oo ah 32 jir u u dhashay wadanka Maraykanka oo horay u dilay Mohamed Ahmed oo ah wiil somaliyeed oo tagsiile ah Mohamed ahmed oo ah 22 jir u Somalia ah kuna xamaalan jiray Taxi ayaa meedkiisa laga helay bishii March 8, 2009 meel u dhow Tagsigiisa. Gudiga...Continue reading »

Mohamed Ahmed Bartamaha (Washington):-Jurors in Washington state have convicted a 32-year-old man of murder in the stabbing death of a cab driver who came to the U.S. to escape the violence of his native Somalia. The Pierce County Superior Court jury on Wednesday convicted Jaycee Fuller of Tacoma in the March 2009 slaying of 22-year-old Mohamud Ahmed. Sentencing is set...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- In an incident with the UK-flagged ship St James Park, abducted by Somali pirates on which five Bulgarian sailors are aboard, pirates opened fire from the deck and that of an adjacent ship against a navy vessel, presumed to be a US ship, international media reported. Reportedly more than 70 “large” calibre rounds were fired at the navy...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):-A mobile phone operator Vodafone has announced what it claims to be the lowest-cost mobile phone on earth. The Vodafone 150 has said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that costumers will have access to phone with price of less than US$15, and is meant at developing world. The services will initially be launched in eight African countries including...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The United Nations says U.S. restrictions that are designed to stop terrorists from diverting aid are hurting humanitarian operations in Somalia. U.N. humanitarian official Mark Bowden said Wednesday that U.N. agencies have not seen any evidence from the U.S. government that food aid is being diverted to Islamists fighting the U.N.-backed Somali...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Mogadishu):- The Somali government on Wednesday said it had thwarted a plot to kill many government officials during Monday’s suicide car bomb attack in government- controlled part of Mogadishu, local media reported. The attack using two car bombs and a hand cart laden with explosives targeted the Somali state minister for defense, Sheikh Yusuf Siyad...Continue reading »

Bartamaha (Nairobi):- When Virginio Bresolin passed away recently in Merka, a coastal Somali city run by Al Qaeda-inspired rebels, so did the last of a generation of Italians who emigrated under Mussolini. He worked as a blacksmith, spoke fluent Somali and rusty Italian, and few people noticed when he died. Fifty years after independence, indifference characterises how...Continue reading »