Bartamaha ( Netherlands ):- The Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled today in favour of two Somali asylum seekers who were due to be deported from the Netherlands to their home country. The court has ordered the Dutch authorities to first investigate the asylum seekers’ objection against the deportation before forcing them to leave. The Interior Ministry has...Continue reading »
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Bartamaha -Edmonton’s deputy police chief is adding his two cents surrounding a controversy involving the Somali community and one of Edmonton’s detectives. Members of the local Somali community have sent an official letter to Edmonton’s deputy police chief expressing their concern about some recent remarks made by police detective Bill Clark about the...Continue reading »
BARTAMAHA (MINNEAPOLIS): - Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been called a hero and a fraud, and now the man who says vaccines are linked to autism has his sights set on Minnesota’s Somali community. An estimated one in 28 Somali school children have been diagnosed with autism – twice the normal rate in Minnesota and five times the national average. Dr. Wakefield believes the...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Minnesota) Fearing for his life and still mourning his murdered family, Liban Hussein fled Mogadishu in 2009 and eventually found refuge a world away in the Twin Cities. But Hussein didn’t follow the route of most Somali refugees, who live in overcrowded camps in Kenya or other neighboring countries and wait months, even years, for a travel visa. Instead,...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Edmondon):- The Edmonton detective who voiced his frustration about the lack of cooperation in a homicide investigation is standing by his comments. On Sunday, Detective Bill Clark said only one person in a restaurant full of people gave police a description of a suspect who fatally shot a 23-year-old Somali man and wounded another. He went on to say that without...Continue reading »
Fanaanka Salaad Maxamed Shardi oo kamid ahaan jirey xidigihii ugu codka macaanaa Hoboladii Qaranka ee Waaberi ayaa show aad looga soo qeyb galay ku qabtay Magaalada Nairobi ee Caasimadda Kiinya. Madasha uu Fanaankan kasoo qeyb galay oo ahayd mid si aada loo hadal hayay maalmihii ugu danmbeeyay ee sanadkii tagay ee 2011 ayaa waxa uu xafaladiisa ku qabtay 2/01/2011 xarunta...Continue reading »
Haddii alle idmo waxaa marti ku ah waddanka Holland Dr. Ali Sheekh, Dr,Ali Sheikh Guddoomiyaha Jaamacada Muqdisho oo la hadlaya Somalida Norwey. guddoomiyaha Jaamacadda Muqdisho maalinta Sabtida ee 8da bisha January. Dhamaan dadka danaynaya waxbarashada waddanka Somalia iyo horumarka carruurta Somaliyeed HIRDA waxay kugu casuumaysaa inaad kala soo qayb gasho kulan...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Edmonton):- One day after a lead detective vented his frustration over what he deems lack of cooperation from witnesses in the city’s latest homicide, friction continues between members of Edmonton’s Somali community and officers trying to solve the case. Bill Clark met with media on Sunday, arguing people inside the Papyrus Restaurant and Lounge...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- East Africa remains a fertile ground for terrorism, says a new report. The report by a Maplecroft, a UK-based risk advisory consultancy, finds that Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are all at risk of being targeted by terrorist groups. The group puts Uganda among countries that are top targets of Al Qaeda or other regional extremist groups like Al Shabaab...Continue reading »
Bartamaha –Edmonton’s Somali community is on edge after a 23-year-old man was gunned down at a lounge near the downtown core early on New Year’s Day, marking the first homicide of the year. Police responded to a call about a shooting around 3 a.m. at the Papyrus Lounge, at 11124 107 Ave., and found a dead man on the floor of the lobby, which had numerous people...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Denmark):-A plot foiled this week to massacre staff at a Danish newspaper was destined to fail because the suspects’ links to Islamic extremists were so well known, a terrorism expert was quoted saying Saturday. One of the five men arrested Wednesday was “so publicly exposed and known by the intelligence services that the plot against Jyllands-Posten...Continue reading »
Caawa habeenkii Sanadka cusub la soo dhawaynayey lana galbinayey 2010 ka waa habeen farxadaad iyo rayrayntaada lala wadaago meel aad ku raaxaysato in laguu tilaamo ma fiicnee meesha cawa shidan oo fanaka iyo fanaakuba ku soo jiidanayaane waaa Deeqa Ahamed, A. A. Naaji iyo Uruurdoox iyo wilba dadka dhalinyarada ah oo jecel qoobka ciyaarka oo loo soo diyaariyeye wiilka sanadkan...Continue reading »
Waxaa maalintii Khamiista taariikhduna ahayd 12/30/2010 lagu qabtay magaalada Minneapolis, kulan weyn oo ay ka soo qayb galeen Jaaliyadda Soomaaliyeed ee degan gobolka Minnesota. Kulankan oo ka dhacay xarunta weyn ee kulamadda iyo aroosyadda ee Safaari ayaa ula jeedaddiisu ahayd in la siiyo fursad ay kuwadda xiriiraan ra’iisal wasaaraha Soomaaliya Mudane Maxamed...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Cape-Town):- Waxaa shalay shalay galab magaalada cape town ka furmay shir sanadeedkii 1aad jaaliyadda somalida ee k/Africa waxaana soo buux dhaafiyey wixii somali ahaa oo ay u suurta gashay meesha lagu qabtay shir sa adeedka 1aad ee jaaliyadda somalida ee dalkani oo ah xarun ay iibisay jaaliyadda somalida ee magaalada cape town oo la yiraahdo Markaz...Continue reading »
bartamaha (SAN DIEGO): — A Somali refugee who is a student atMesa College, won a prestigious national science award for cancer research. It’s been a fast road to success said the 26-year-old student, who didn’t know how to read English when he arrived in the U.S. just five years ago “I came to the United States in 2005, I could barely read English, I didn’t know...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Police in Kilifi arrested eight Somalis among them a one-year-old baby boy and a Kenyan student at a roadblock on the Malindi-Mombasa highway. According to Kilifi OCPD Clement Wangai, traffic police on normal roadblock checks stopped a private vehicle heading to Mombasa from Malindi on Monday and found a Somali man, his wife and their baby boy who...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Amsterdam):- Twelve Somalis were arrested by the Dutch authorities on 24 December. The Dutch national intelligence service AIVD says they were planning a terrorist attack. Now Somalis in the Netherlands find themselves in the media spotlight: is their community here a breeding ground for new ‘Muslim’ terrorists? The Netherlands is home to at least...Continue reading »
Minneapolis: Renowned Muslim Scholar, Prof. Tariq Ramadan’s anticipated visit to the Twin Cities was a huge success. Dr. Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University (Oriental Institute, St. Anthony’s College), provided inspirational insights for people of diverse backgrounds to work together for the common welfare. On December 23rd, Minnesotans...Continue reading »
Seventeen Somali pirates that had been released from a jail in Mombasa, Kenya, were flown on Monday to Galkayo town in Central Somalia, 750 km north of Mogadishu. The group was welcomed by some officials from Puntland, a semi-autonomous state in northeastern Somalia. In a meeting at Galkayo airport amid tight security, the Puntland Governor in Mudug region, Ahmed Ali Salad,...Continue reading »
