Category Archives: Diaspora [ QURBAHA ]
Police in Wisconsin are trying to determine why a Minneapolis cab driver jumped from his cab before it crashed, and why his passenger ran from the scene. // Baldwin police say a Blue and White cab crashed into a light pole and then hit a parked car in the Greenfield Elementary School parking lot around 6:40 p.m. Sunday. Responding officers found the driver, Abdi Mohamed...Continue reading »
Images Hardline Islamist fighters from Al-Shabab paraded in the streets of Mogadishu. The rebel group has instituted a strict Muslim state in parts of Somalia. TORONTO — The Toronto mosque where a group of missing Somali-Canadians sometimes worshipped has urged anyone with information about them to come forward. The Abu Huraira Centre posted the statement on its...Continue reading »
by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul, Minn. — Family members of Mahamud Said Omar say he lived a simple yet luckless life in Minneapolis. He shared an apartment with one of his brothers, complained of sleepless nights, and crisscrossed the country in search of work. But the U.S. government alleges the 43-year-old man helped facilitate the departures of...Continue reading »
Federal investigators filed charges against eight people in connection with the disappearance of young Somali-Americans who allegedly left the U.S. to fight with a terrorist group in Somalia. NPR’s counterterrorism correspondent Dina Temple-Raston talks about the investigation. Click Here to Listen ...
St. Cloud Area Somali Women’s Association (SASWA) took the panelist positions in Atwood’s Theater Wednesday. Along with the presentation, they provided some cultural information. Halima Hussein, Fartun Hussein, Fartun Nut, Bisharo Iman and Hayad Hassan formed the panel. Hassan acted as Halima Hussein’s translator. “I think a number of people...Continue reading »
Bartamaha Ohio — Xaflad lacag loogu ururinayay gabdhaha dhigta Jaamacada Puntland oo ay soo qabanqaabiyeen UNDP iyo Puntland Diaspora Forum qeybteeda Ohio ayaa waxay ka dhacday magaalada Columbus. Xafladdan oo si hagaagsan ku dhamaatay ayaan waxaan wax ka weydiinay Axmed Maxamed “Baraawe” oo ah gudoomiyaha PDF Ohio, ee nala daawada Halkan riix siaad...Continue reading »
Waraysi meelo badan taabanaya oo ka hadlaya Maxkamaddii labaad ee Masjid Salaama vs M. Xasan (VIDEO)
Bartamaha (Ohio) — Waxaa maalintii jimcaha oo bishu ahayd 20 Nofeembar mar kale maxkamada wada tagay labadii dhinac ee dacwadu ay u socotay (Masjid Salaama vs Maxamed Xasan), haddaba waxaan waraysanay Cabdicasiis Diiriye oo ka mid ah maamulka Masjid Salaama oo aan horay u waraysanay. Suaalihii aan weydiinayna waxaa ka mid ahaa sida uu arko arrintan oo hadda gaartay...Continue reading »
Stewart Bell, National Post —Â An investigation into a half-dozen missing Toronto men who are feared to have joined a Somali terrorist group has raised questions about whether they could face criminal charges upon their return to Canada. In an interview yesterday, Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan would not comment on the continuing investigation but said Canadians...Continue reading »
Police are patrolling the halls, and parents are worried after a conflict between white and Somali students. Racial tension has been building at Owatonna High School this week after a fight broke out Monday between white and Somali students, prompting heightened police presence, backpack searches and widespread parental worries. Owatonna Police Chief Shaun LaDue said...Continue reading »
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A Minnesota law professor and advocate for Somali immigrants in the state says he was denied access to a Minneapolis man who is being held on terrorism charges in the Netherlands. William Mitchell College of Law professor Peter Erlinder says he traveled to the Netherlands last week with hopes of meeting with 43-year-old Mohamud Said Omar, who...Continue reading »
OWATONNA, Minn. (WCCO) —Calm has returned to the halls of Owatonna High School, where earlier this week a fight over racial tensions sent one student to the hospital. Tension between white and Somali students had been brewing for the past two weeks, stemming from a student’s inflammatory paper alleging Somali privilege that was posted on a school blog. The...Continue reading »
A 24-year-old local Somali man was indicted this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on charges of conspiring to provide support to terrorists. Omer Abdi Mohamed, an unemployed employment counselor and father of a two-month-old boy, also was indicted on charges of conspiracy to “kill, kidnap, maim or injure” people in foreign countries. Mohamed,...Continue reading »
SAINT PAUL, Minn. – A group of young, Somali men posted a video of themselves attacking pedestrians and bicyclists in St. Paul. The suspects openly identify themselves in the video, and then attack unknowing victims. None of the victims have reported any of the attacks. St. Paul police is urging victims to step forward, if they recognize themselves in the video. The...Continue reading »
Minnesota Somali activist Omar Jamal has a new job with the Permanent Mission of the Somali Republic to the United Nations. (MPR Photo/ Laura Yuen) Minneapolis (AP) — A well-known advocate for Somalis in Minnesota has taken a new job with the Permanent Mission of the Somali Republic to the United Nations. Omar Jamal, 36, is in...Continue reading »
Stewart Bell, National Post — Counterterrorism officials are investigating a group of youths who allegedly left Canada for East Africa two weeks ago, amid concerns they may have gone to join the Somali militant group Al-Shabab. Two sources familiar with the case said investigators had been canvassing Toronto’s large Somali-Canadian community for...Continue reading »
Bartamaha — Sida aad kala socoteen Bartamaha, Arrintii Masjid Salaama oo aan u malaynaynay inay dhamaatay kadib markii qaadiga maxkamaddu uu u amray in maamulka Masjid Salaama ay sii deganaan doonaan (Halkan ka daawo wixii maalintaas maxkamadda dhexdeeda ka dhacay iyo siday ku dhamaatay) ayaa waxaa haddana timid fal kale oo aan meesha laga filayn. Maalin dhoweyd...Continue reading »
by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio — Minneapolis — A recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis has some members of the Twin Cities Somali-American community saying police and prosecutors need to do a better job of protecting witnesses to violent crimes. /* The shooting was the latest incident in a cycle of Somali-on-Somali slayings that have put a chill on...Continue reading »
Melbourne — Waxaa maalin dhoweyd ka dhacay magaalada Melbourne eewadankan Australia kulan ay sameeyeen dhallinyarada Soomaalida ee wadanka Australia . Kulankan oo ahaa mid si fiican looga soo qeyb galay ayaa waxaa ka hadlay dhallinyaro kala duwan. Haddaba waxaan idiin hayaa goos goos aan idiin soo diyaariyay ee ila daawada. ...
