Bartamaha (Minnesota):- Books for Africa’s conference on African literature takes place Friday and Saturday, featuring Alexandra Fuller, author of the bestselling “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” as the keynote speaker. The conference opens at 6 p.m. Friday with a free reading by Somali novelist and playwright Nuruddin Farah in the Cowles...Continue reading »
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Bartamaha (Nairobi): — Community leaders in Garissa have unanimously endorsed a raft of resolutions to end the violence that has claimed the lives of four people and left more than than 20 houses torched. Among the resolutions is a freeze on the movement of people from 6 p.m to 6 a.m. and intensified police patrols and restriction of movement in clash prone settlements...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A German suspected to be involved in terrorism was arrested in Kenya and deported to Germany, ending three weeks of a countrywide police manhunt. Reports of the arrest came in moments after police headquarters circulated photographs of the suspect, 23-year-old Sascha Alessadro Bottcher. Travel documents showed he entered Kenya on September 22. His...Continue reading »
The Fort Morgan Somali Soccer League team won the state championship in Denver on Sept. 18. This was the first season, which made it a kind of miraculous win over the three other teams, said coach Abdi Abdikadir. It can be difficult for Somalis and other refugees to play in regular leagues for young men, due to their odd schedules of factory shift work, he said. They cannot...Continue reading »
Saskatoon police have arrested and charged a 27-year-old Saskatoon man in connection with the death of a Somali man found in a parking lot in July. Ryan Waddell, 27, has been charged with manslaughter and robbery in connection with the July 20 incident. He made his first court appearance Monday and will appear again Oct. 12. Around 11:30 p.m. on July 20, Saskatoon police...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Manchester ):- Magaalada Manchester ayaa lagu qabtey ciyaaro saaxiibtinimo oo ay ka soo qab galeen kooxo Soomaaliyeed oo ka dhisan magaalooyinka BERMINGHAM, MANCHESTER & LIECESTER. Koobka waxaa martigaliyay Maamulka Kooxda Manchester Sporting Club oo ay maamulaan Mudane Axmed Bishaar Sheegoow iyo Mudane Xuseen Xuska oo labaduba ka soo mid ahaan jirey ciyaartooydii...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Investigations into the July 11 bomb blasts that killed 79 people in Kampala have taken a new turn as US counter-terrorism operatives who were co-opted into the process effectively hijack most of the action. Indeed, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is now supervising Uganda and Kenya police to make a clean sweep of all people suspected to be...Continue reading »
Miineapolis: Cawslafil waa Urur cusub oo u Adeegaya Danta guud iyo Horumarinta Beesha Soomaaliyeed. Waa kii ugu horeyey oo ah noocan oo laga asaaso Gobolada Waqoyi Ameerika. Ururkan waxaa albaabada loo furayaa Maalinta Axada ah bishuna tahay Oktoobar 3 eeda 2010 4:00pm Makhaayada Safaari Ee ku taal Lake iyo 4th ka. waxaa furidoona dad bulshada magac iyo xushmo ku leh,...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A FORMER Liverpool dad today told how he was wrongly accused of being a terrorist. Mohammed Ali Musa described his shock after he was dramatically intercepted by police in Holland. The 44-year-old was taken into custody and quizzed about suspicions he was travelling to Uganda to take part in a ‘terrorist war.’ The Somali dad-of-five was stopped...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- In a Friday statement, the ministry said it wished to “acknowledge that the MoUs (Memoranda of Understanding) will effectively terminate on 30th September, 2010,” Press TV reported. The decision to stop handing over piracy suspects to the local authorities in Kenya was reportedly reached after it emerged that the country is already overwhelmed...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):-A Kenyan court in the port town of Mombasa jailed 11 Somali men to five years each for trying to hijack a Liberian-flagged ship last year, the European Naval force said on Thursday. The 11 were charged in relation to the attack on the MV Safmarine Asia in April 2009. An EU Navfor patrol ship thwarted the attack and seized the men, who were then handed...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Mombasa):- A Kenyan court on Wednesday jailed 11 Somalis for five years each for piracy on a Liberian-flagged merchant ship in the Indian Ocean last year. The men attacked the Safmarine container ship in April 2009, but they failed to take control of the vessel and were seized by marines from a French warship, the Nivose. The Nivose handed them over to Kenyan...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Liecester):- Waxaa magaalada Liecester oo ku taal bartamaha dalka England lagu qabtey maalinimadii Axada oo ay taariikhduna aheyd 26 /09/2010 tartan orado ah oo loogu magac darey 5K FUN RUN oo ay ka soo qayb galeen dhalinyaro iyo caruur Soomaaliyeed oo isugu jirey wiilal iyo gabdhaba, kuwaasoo ka kale yimid magaalooyinka Bermingham, Manchester,...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):-34 illegal immigrants from Somalia were on Saturday arrested at Habobey in Hagarboll division of Garissa District. Two taxi drivers were also arrested for trying to negotiate with the security personnel to have the aliens released. Garissa DC John Kinjo said that the immigrants had paid 220 dollars each to brokers to bribe their way from Somalia to...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Minneapolis):- Kooxda qeylodhaan ayaa soo saartey hees oo looga hadlaayo dastuurka cusub, heesta magaceedana waxaa la dhahaa dib u dhiga dastuurka cusub. Heesta waxaa si wadajir ah u soo alifey Fanaanka caanka ah Jooqle Shire Jaamac , Abwaanka Cabdi Shire Jaamac’’Ciyaar jecel’’ iyo abwaan dhalinyaro ah oo la yiraahdo Axmed Calas. Heesta waxaa si wadajir...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):-The actual number of people of Somali origin in Kenya – both Kenyan Somalis and those from Somalia – has become a bone of contention since the release of the 2009 census results last month. The results finally released on August 31 that put the number of ethnic Somali Kenyans at 2.4 million have been discredited as being too large because of...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Shelbyville):- Teenagers in T-shirts and shorts raise money for their high school marching band outside of Walmart. Pudgy shoppers walk a 19th-century brick-fronted Square. Beauty-shopped coiffed women join their men in a traditional wooden-pewed church – and a woman in the conservative robes of an African Muslim drives through town as the movie’s...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):-A mobile border control unit is now to intensify Kenya’s control with the porous Somali border. Hundreds cross the border uncontrolled every day, some of which are militants or victims of human smuggling. This week, the Kenyan Ministry for Immigration and Registration of Persons was handed over a mobile border control unit. The mobile unit is...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A Kenyan court has sentenced seven Somalis to five years in jail for acts of piracy, the third batch of pirates to be jailed since foreign anti-piracy patrols began two years ago. The seven, sentenced on Thursday by a court in Kenya’s coastal town of Mombasa, were captured by the Spanish navy in May 2009 while attempting to attack Maltese-flagged...Continue reading »
