The internationally celebrated historian and TV presenter Niall Ferguson has broken up with his wife of 16 years after a string of adulterous affairs. The 45-year-old Harvard professor has left former newspaper editor Susan Douglas, with whom he has three children, for his mistress, the Somalian-born feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Ms Hirsi Ali, 40, is a lawyer and former Dutch...Continue reading »
Category Archives: Diaspora [ QURBAHA ]
At the Minnesota International Middle School, a charter school that enrolls mostly East African students, groups of elders from the local Somali community wander the halls between classes and convene in several “elders corners” throughout the day, always ready to dispense advice and wisdom and serve as good examples. But the bearded old men and the women in...Continue reading »
Nairobi (www.Bartamaha.com) Hoolka shirarka ee andulus Hotel ee Dhismaha Eastleighmall ee Magaalada Nairobi ee Dalka Kenya ayaa waxaa maanta si qurux badan loogu caleemo saaray Gudoomiyaha Guddiga Jaaliyadda Dalka Kenya oo uu Fadhigiisu noqonayo Magaalada Nairobi ee Caasimadda Dalka Kenya. Abaarihii 4tii galabnimo ayay ahayd markii ugu horeysay ee ay si rasmiyaha u furantay...Continue reading »
Nairobi (www.Bartamaha.com) Dawladda Kenya ayaa tabar u soo xireysa ciidamo Soomaaliya oo dalka kenya lagu tabarayay kuwaasi oo  tiradooda lagu sheegay ilaa iyo 2,500 oo askari. Ciidankaan ayaa tababarkooda lasoo xirayaa Maalmaha fooda inagu soo haya si ay ugu biiraan Cududa dawalada Federaalka Kumeel gaarka ah ee Soomaaliya oo uu hogaamiyo Madaxweyne Shariif  Sheikh...Continue reading »
Hayadda Caymiska Gobalka Ohio ee Dalka Mareykanka oo sare u qaaday luuqadaha ay ku bixiso Adeegeeda.
Ohio (www.Bartamaha.com) Hayadda Dawliga ah ee bixisa Caymiska Gobalka Ohio ee Dalka Mareykanka ayaa sheegtay iney gaarsiisay la taliyayaasha iyo luuqadaha ay ku bixiso latalinteeda in kabadan ilaa iyo 150 luuqadood. Hayaddan caymiska ayaa shaqaalaysiisay turjumaano farabadan si markaasi ay u hanato hanaankeeda ay ku beegsanayso qoowmiyadaha kala duwan ee ku dhaqan gobalka...Continue reading »
Somalis living in Bristol have launched a campaign to raise a multi-million pound ransom to free a British couple being held captive by pirates. They are calling on all of the UK’s 500,000 Somalis to give £10 each to buy the freedom of Paul and Rachel Chandler. The couple, from Kent, were captured by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean on October 23 while they...Continue reading »
CHICAGO: An Ohio grandmother kidnapped Thursday allegedly by one of her grandsons and three other people was found safe this morning and the suspects arrested by Chicago police at an O’Hare-area hotel, authorities said. The 75-year-old woman, originally from Somalia, and her four kidnappers were located at the O’Hare Holiday Inn after police found the kidnappers’...Continue reading »
Members from North Division, along with Supt. Brad Ward attended an Alberta Somali Community meeting on Friday, January 29th. The meeting showcased the challenges, opportunities, and work to be done at the grassroots level in Edmonton to achieve integration and equality for Canadians of Somali heritage. Inspiring messages were delivered to encourage young Canadian-Somalis...Continue reading »
Bartamaha Media waxay idiin soo diyaariyeen Barnaamij cusub oo ku tusinaya sida cuntada loo kariyo, waxaana noo daadihinaya Cunto Kariya caanka ah ee reer Minneapolis waa Jamaal oo hogaanka u haya maqaaxida Safari Express. Jamaal heerar kala duwan ayuu kasoo maray dhanka quudinta dadka xiiseeya cuntada Soomaalida waxaana lagu soo qaatay sheekooyinkiisa saxaafadaha Maraykanka...Continue reading »
By Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter — EASTLEIGH, KENYA–The raids started on a Sunday night and lasted until morning, with police targeting anyone who looked Somali. This included dozens of illegal residents who had fled the fighting of their homeland and blended into this largely Somali enclave known as “Little Mogadishu.” But the...Continue reading »
Sheekh Umal ayaa sheegay in Al-Shabab ay yihiin khawaarij, qofkii dila ama ay dilaanna uu jannada galayo. Sh Maxamed Umal oo ah sheekh ka mid ah culimada ugu waaweyn ee somalida aha kuna nool magaalada nairobi ee waddanka kenya, ayaa sida laga soo wariyey ilo warar oo fara badan waxaa uu khudba kulul oo uu ka jeediyey masaajid isla magaaladaas ku yaalla, ku dhaleeceeyey...Continue reading »
MINNEAPOLIS — Some Minnesota college students are home Saturday after a trip to South America took a harrowing twist. 21 Gustavus Adolphus students and two professors had to be airlifted out of the area near the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru after floodwaters destroyed the only train tracks out of town. The group had spent all of January in Peru, learning...Continue reading »
Laura Yuen’s aunt called her niece excitedly on way to the airport Monday. “Laura, guess what? I’m in a cab, and my driver is Somali, and he’s listening to your story! And guess what? He wants to talk to you! He has some feedback!†The MPR reporter chuckled recounting the conversation. In the year since plunging into the “Somali...Continue reading »
They were four friends bound for Washington, D.C. to witness Obama’s inauguration. But around the same time they left Ottawa in a rented car, an informant walked into a U.S. embassy with a vague but alarming tip that would ricochet in unexpected directions and change their lives More than a million people stood proudly in the January chill of Washington’s National...Continue reading »
by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio — In the final part of our series, “Civil War Kids: Young Somalis in Minnesota,” Laura Yuen reports on the young people who are succeeding in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis despite the grim statistics. St. Paul, Minn. — When you ask people to tell you a story of hope from the Somali community...Continue reading »
Zuhur Ahmed is a community activist, aspiring doctor, graduate of University of Minnesota, and show host of KFAI’s “Somali Community Link.” Zuhur Ahmed talks about how the search for identity and longing for connection can lead some young Somalis to join gangs. She explains why she chose to cover local Somali community news in Minnesota in her radio show. “People...Continue reading »
Minneapolis: Horseed waa horsocodka barbaadinta Dhalin yarada Soomaaliyeed ee ay wax barasha la aantu ku hayso Soomaaliya figrada Horseed waxay ka soo jeedaa Dhalinyaro ka ku kortay Qurbaha dareemaysana wax barasha darada ka jirta Soomaaliya. Ula jeedada Horseed waxay tahay in ay deeq bixiyayaasha caalaamka ka soo qaadan deeqdooda ka bacdina ay gacanta ka saaraan dhulka...Continue reading »
Setting the stage for a showdown over free speech rights, a resident of Waite Park, Minn., plans to fight St. Cloud officials’ decision to fine him for posting offensive anti-Muslim cartoons last month. The city attorney’s office last week cited Sidney Allen Elyea, 41, with violating a city ordinance that prohibits posting written materials on utility poles. Elyea...Continue reading »
STUDENTS from some of Britain’s top universities are travelling to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda. Almost a dozen young British Muslims, including a female medical researcher, are said recently to have joined Al-Shabaab, an extremist rebel organisation blamed for hundreds of deaths in the east African state. Somali community leaders in...Continue reading »
