A SOMALI community leader has rejected claims that police are continuing to racially target Flemington’s African teenagers. Somali Community of Victoria president Abdirahman Osman said relations between Flemington police and the Somali community had improved in the past 18 months. “There was a time (from 2006 to 2008) when children, mostly boys 13 to ...Continue reading »
Category Archives: Diaspora [ QURBAHA ]
EDMONTON — The Edmonton Police Commission is offering $40,000 rewards for information leading to arrests and convictions in 11 unsolved homicides involving victims tied to the city’s central-east African communities. The move comes in response to requests made last December by leaders of the Somali community, said Mahamad Accord, director of the Alberta...Continue reading »
Mohamed Said Jama, a Winnipeg man with a lengthy criminal history who is fighting a deportation order, is back in custody authorities say. Jama, 40, has been in Canada since 1991 when he arrived as a refugee from Somalia. Four years later, Jama began racking up a criminal record beginning with an impaired driving conviction in B.C. His most serious convictions related...Continue reading »
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – A New Hope, Minnesota man has been arrested for allegedly posting a threatening message on Craigslist.org aimed at a Somali cultural event on the St. Cloud State university campus. James Scott Miller, 49, was arrested Friday morning and booked into the Stearns County Jail awaiting felony terroristic threats charges. On Wednesday, St. Cloud...Continue reading »
WINNIPEG – A dangerous Somali refugee with a history of violence who was released in Winnipeg last month by an immigration official is on the lam, the Winnipeg Sun has learned. A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for Mohamed Said Jama, the Somali refugee slated for deportation last fall but returned to Canada after a failed attempt to remove him. Canada Border...Continue reading »
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 »
VICTORIA Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland is embroiled in another race row after admitting that there are bigots on his force. Mr Overland, whose public standing took a hit from his clumsy handling of the furore surrounding attacks on Indians living in Melbourne, yesterday conceded there were racists in his ranks. He got no argument from three young...Continue reading »
WINNIPEG – A Somali refugee deemed by a federal judge to be too dangerous to stay in Canada and slated for deportation has been released in Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Sun has learned. Mohamed Said Jama was supposed to be deported to Somalia last year after losing a lengthy court battle to block his deportation. But Jama — who was convicted of assault with a weapon,...Continue reading »
Toronto — A Toronto man has been killed in Somalia while fighting with the al-Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabab, according to a message posted on the Internet. The message, which accompanies a video posted on YouTube, identifies the man as “Mohamed al Muhajiri” and says he worshipped at the Abu Huraira Mosque in Toronto. The death could not...Continue reading »
by Ambar Espinoza St. Cloud, Minn. — 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...Continue reading »
Canadian Somali Congress reacts to the Government of Canada decision to add the Al-Shabab group to the list of terrorist organizations and comments on the disappearances of Canadian Somali youth from Toronto. Ahmed Hussen, National President of the Canadian Somali Congress was interviewed by Anna Maria Tremonti on the CBC Radio Program, The Current. Also in the interview...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 »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Somali pirates have seized a Kenyan-flagged fishing vessel, the European Union Naval Force said Tuesday. Cmdr. John Harbour said Tuesday the Sakoba was taken last week, but many details remain unclear. The owner has not been in touch and the ship was not registered with maritime authorities. The crew nationalities and numbers are unknown. Pirate...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Guddomiye ku-xigeenka koowaad ee Baarlamaanka Dalka Kenya Farah Macalin ayaa booqday xafiiska Jaaliyada Maamulka Gobaleedka Puntland ee dalka Kenya kadib markii uu casumaad ka helay Jaaliyad Puntland ee ku dhaqan magaaladda Nairobi. Booqashada mudane Farah ayaa imaneeysa kadib markii uu booqasho ku tagay bishii December ee sanadkii hore Maamulka...Continue reading »
Lobbyists Wednesday produced documents they claimed revealed that Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission chair Bethuel Kiplagat mismanaged the Somali peace process. Kenyans for Justice and Development officials presented the documents to Public Accounts Committee chair Boni Khalwale. Pressure has for weeks been mounting for Mr Kiplagat to step down as TJRC chair. Mr...Continue reading »
Brendan Kennedy Staff Reporter — Visible minorities in Toronto and its surrounding municipalities could more than double in the next 20 years, making up 63 per cent of the area’s total population by 2031, according to a study by Statistics Canada published Tuesday. The federal agency projects the number of visible minorities in the area to grow from 2.3...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (London):- Gordon Brown pledged British support for the transitional government of Somalia yesterday as its Western-backed president prepared to launch an offensive to seize control of Mogadishu from al-Qaeda linked fighters. Britain has offered £5.7 million to fund the build-up of an official Somalian security force and has dramatically increased British...Continue reading »
Yet again, the victims were born in Somalia but raised in Toronto. Yet again, the victims appear to have had links to a bustling drug trade between Ontario and Alberta. Yet again, police have no suspects. On Feb. 17, Idiris Abess, 23, and Saed Adad, 22, were found dead in Hillside Manor, a downtown Fort McMurray apartment building notorious for drug-dealing and prostitution,...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A British yachting couple seized by Somali pirates and held in separate locations have been temporarily reunited after weeks apart, a doctor who treated the two said. Paul and Rachel Chandler were suffering from severe anxiety brought on by their separation and captivity in war-ravaged Somalia, Dr. Abdi Mohamed Elmi Hangul told The Associated Press...Continue reading »
‘Real Life’ helping refugees adjust Ah, the American supermarket, with its 8-foot-tall shrine of soft drinks, its bubble gum as big as ping pong balls, its lucky charmed necklaces (collect all 10!). And that’s just in the foyer, before you even enter the store. A smart shopper knows what to buy and what to walk right by, which is why Jamal Omer, 14,...Continue reading »
