State officials are examining whether public money has been improperly used to pay for Islamic mosques on charter school campuses in Blaine and Inver Grove Heights. Chas Anderson, deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education, said officials will study Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy’s (TiZA) use of state “lease aid” grants, which were created...Continue reading »
Category Archives: Diaspora [ QURBAHA ]
Abdirizzak Sabrie Mayo soccer star Abdirizzak Sabrie came with his extended family from Somalia -- via Kenya and a stint in one of its refugee camps -- four years ago.Scott Jacobson/Post-Bulletin Abdirizaq Sabrie has a journalist drive him to his family’s Rochester apartment, then 10 minutes later comes jogging back to the car holding his life’s story. Sabrie...Continue reading »
“Quiet diplomacy” is a Canadian fixation, but does it work? The government and diplomats like it because it keeps the media off their backs, but when Canadians are in danger in foreign lands, does it help or hurt? The answer is sometimes yes and sometimes no. Yes, in the case of diplomat Robert Fowler kidnapped to Mali and eventually freed. And CBC reporter...Continue reading »
EASTLEIGH, KENYA -Â The streets of Eastleigh, a Somali enclave of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, are crowded and dirty. Sewage and rotting garbage flow through gullies. Police are virtually nonexistent; restaurants are locked, even when open, for safety reasons; and guns are readily available for sale at the market. No one ever said “Little Mogadishu” was...Continue reading »
On the second floor of an old brick building in downtown Willmar, the Somali Women’s Connection Center is open for business. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., five days a week, Muslim women can go there to exercise in private, get help from a group of volunteers in finding a job or just work on improving their English. Downstairs, in the same building, they can do the same...Continue reading »
Bartamaha Minneapolis — Dalladda dhalinyarada u adeegta ee Somali Youth Network Council (SYNC) ayaa waalidiinta Soomaaliyeed u qabtay kulan wacyi galin iyo aqoon is waydaarsi iskugu jira. Kulankan ayaa u jeedadiisu ahayd in laga wada hadlo dhibaatooyinka kala go’a aan lahayn ee soo wajahay dhalinyarada Soomaaliyeed ee ku dhaqan gobolka Minnesota. Kulankan oo...Continue reading »
Abdixakiin BR iyo Hani Diiriye Abaal marinta Fanka iyo Suugaanta Soomaaliyeed ayaa waxay ka dhacday magaalada Minneapolis ee Minnesota, xafladan oo ay soo qabanqaabiyeen Bartamaha Somali Media ayaa waxaa ay ka dhacdey magaalada Minneapolis taariikhdu markey ahayd August 15, 2009, xafladaas oo ahayd xafladii ugu horeysay oo la qabto taniyo markii uu dalku burburey,...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Minneapolis) Kulan lagu furayo mashruuc loogu talagay in lagu wacyi galiyo dhalinyarada Soomaaliyeed iyo dhamaan bulshada Soomaaliyeed ee ku dhaqan labadda magaalo mataanaha ah Minneapolis/St. Paul ee gobolka Minnesota, ayaa waxa uu ka dhacay xarunta Brian Coyle taarikhdu markay ahayd 8/16/2009. Kulankan ayaa waxaa si habsami leh u soo agaasimay dhalinyaro...Continue reading »
An Ottawa mother expects good news when her autistic son meets with the Canadian High Commission in Kenya this week after being trapped there for several years because Canada wouldn’t give him a passport. Anab Issa said years of working to get her 25-year-old autistic son, Abdihakim Mohamed, back to Canada now seems to be over. “I called him today (Saturday)....Continue reading »
The lawyer for Suaad Hagi Mohamud, the Toronto woman trapped in Kenya because federal officials didn’t believe she was Canadian, says an independent probe is needed to find whether she was treated that way because of her Somali ethnicity. Six days after she got home thanks to genetic tests proving her identity, Ms. Mohamud is suing Ottawa for $2.5-million, saying...Continue reading »
In dhawaydba waxa shir muhiim ah uga socday Maraykanka saraakiishii hore ee Soomaaliya iyo kuwa hada haya xilka. Shirkaas oo ku saabsanaa sidii Soomaaliya nabad looga dhigi lahaa, loona sameyn lahaa ciidamo xoog badan. Shirkaas ka dib ayaa saraakiisha qaarkood, waxa ay nasiib u yeesheen in ay booqdaan gobolada Maraykanka sida Minnesota. Saraakiishaas ayaa waxa ka mid...Continue reading »
From Mexico to Nairobi, they wait in vain for help from ‘amateur-hour’ Canadian officials Canadians travel at their own risk Anab Issa’s 25-year-old autistic son, Abdihakim Mohamed, is stuck halfway around the world in Nairobi, Kenya, stateless and without proper care, while she fights to prove he’s a Canadian citizen so she can bring him home. Sound...Continue reading »
IT’S 8.30 on Sunday morning at the Flemington public housing flats, and a chill wind is whipping between the bleak towers, sending detritus swirling. But that’s about the only activity, which is not what Hass Dellal wants to see, because there should be 15 young Somali, Eritrean and Sudanese men waiting. On a bus on Racecourse Road, Lebanese and Syrian teens...Continue reading »
Harper catching up on details IQALUIT–Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he’s happy Suaad Hagi Mohamud is back in Canada but admits he’s waiting for answers about her nightmare at the hands of Canadian officials. Harper suggested he became aware of the case only last week, even though her well-publicized plight of being stuck in Kenya had begun 11 weeks...Continue reading »
The Canadian diplomat who officially disowned Suaad Hagi Mohamud as an “imposter” has been recalled from Kenya. Liliane Khadour has “concluded” her posting, a consular official at the Canadian High Commission said yesterday from the capital, Nairobi. “Her tour of duty is over,” he said, explaining that Foreign Affairs employees rotate...Continue reading »
In an east African country rocked by violence and instability, a young, kidnapped Central Alberta woman has languished for nearly 365 days. Sunday marks one year since freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout, 28, of Sylvan Lake, and Australian photographer Nigel Brennan, 38, were abducted at gunpoint near Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, as they worked on a news story about...Continue reading »
The corruption present in Kenyan institutions suggests that the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi may need to be more forceful with Kenyan officials when embroiled in situations similar to Suaad Mohamud’s. This proposed investigation will shed light on the cases of stranded Canadian Somalis like Abdihakim Mohamed. The recommendations emanating from this investigation...Continue reading »
Teen Drives Car into Apartment Columbus — A car driven by an inexperienced teenage driver went right into his home this morning at 2478 Adonai Blvd. in Columbus. The teens mother asked him to put her Toyota Avalon in reverse hitting a Nissan then putting the car into drive hitting the apartment. The car went through the side of the apartment and took out the front...Continue reading »
Somali-Canadians are often singled out by border and immigration officials in Kenya as vulnerable people from a wealthy country who are perfect for a shakedown, community activists say. “And they’re constantly asked for bribes,” said Ahmed Hussen of the Canadian Somali Congress. “If they refuse, they run the risk of having the same ordeal as Suaad...Continue reading »
