An Eden Prairie man is accused of locking up an eight-year-old girl and sexually abusing her. Abdi Mohamed Jama, 32, is charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct. According to the criminal complaint, the victim’s father came home to find her missing on July 25. He went to Jama’s home because their daughters are friends. The complaint says the father...Continue reading »
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Suaad Hagi Mohamud, centre, her ex-husband Hussein Asbscir, bottom left, and their 12-year-old son Mohamed Hussein, right, are surrounded by friends, family, and journalists upon Mohamud's arrival at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Saturday, August 15, 2009. (Darren Calabrese / THE CANADIAN PRESS) CTV — A woman who was reunited with her son in Toronto...Continue reading »
A 17-year-old Columbus man will spend 28 years to life in prison for killing a Meigs County man in February. An Athens County jury found Mohat Osman Guilty of aggravated robbery and murder yesterday after about nine hours of deliberation spread over two days. Prosecutors say Osman went with Phillip Boler, 27, Abdifatah Abdi, 17, and Hamda Jama, 21, to raid Billy Osborne’s...Continue reading »
John Goddard (Toronto Star) Suaad Mohamud spent her first full day back in Canada undergoing hospital tests for an ailment nagging her since an unjust stint in a Kenyan jail. “She’s really sick,” her lawyer Raoul Boulakia said yesterday of the woman who arrived home to a hero’s welcome after spending three months trying to prove her identity to...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Columbus) Waxaa maalintii Axada ahayd ee taariikhdu ahayd August 15th, 2009 lagu qabtay magaalada Columbus ee Ohio lacag aruurin loogu talo galay dad ku dhibaataysan Soomaaliya oo jirooyin lagu daweyn waayay Soomaaliya qaba. Xafladdan oo ka mid ahayd lacag aruurino taxane ahaa oo laga qaadayay Soomaalida ku nool waqooyiga Ameerika, waxaana hormuud u ahaa geesiga...Continue reading »
Star journalist John Goddard broke the story of Suaad Mohamud’s plight and relentlessly pursued it Aug 16, 2009Â | John Goddard |Â Staff Reporter With as much poise as anyone could muster, Suaad Hagi Mohamud walked a gauntlet of cameras toward her 12-year-old son at Pearson Airport’s Terminal 3 yesterday, and warmly wrapped her arms around his head. Dignified...Continue reading »
Suaad Hagi Mohamud walked through customs into a crush of television cameras and cheering friends and neighbours today at Pearson International Airport, and wrapped her arms around her 12-year-old boy she expected to see three months ago. Mohamud, who was visiting her mother in Kenya, was unable to leave the country after authorities said her lips did not match her four-year-old...Continue reading »
Nairobi — For a Somali, Suaad Hagi Mohamud – the young woman who has spent nearly three months stranded in Kenya because of false accusations of passport fraud – has led a preternaturally peaceful life. With a mild-mannered optimism and more than a few happy turns of fate, she managed to slip past the famines and wars that would destroy so many of...Continue reading »
Accounting ordered of role played by Border Services Agency in case of Canadian woman stranded in Kenya for nearly three months Watch Video here Prime Minister Stephen Harper said today the Canada Border Services Agency will have to answer for its role in the plight of a Canadian woman marooned in Kenya for nearly three months. “Our first priority as a government...Continue reading »
McGuinty joins growing chorus slamming Ottawa for ignoring Canadian stranded for three months OTTAWA–The federal government continued its foot-dragging yesterday, leaving Suaad Hagi Mohamud to languish yet another day in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. Her lawyer said he wants the Toronto woman on a flight home tomorrow and Canada has asked Kenya to clear the way...Continue reading »
Nairobi — Ethnic Somalis have had it hard in Kenya ever since the 1960s, when the British bequeathed Kenya’s Northern Frontier Province to them. And then, on second thought, decided they’d rather bequeath it to Kenya’s newly independent government in 1963. What started as a series of border skirmishes bloomed, with an influx of cold-war weaponry,...Continue reading »
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ―A man has admitted lying to federal agents investigating Americans ighting in Somalia. Kamal Hassan, whose age and hometown weren’t immediately available, is the third man to plead guilty in the case. As many as 20 young men have traveled to Somalia to join in fighting there. Family members say at least three have been killed. Hassan admitted...Continue reading »
After months of stonewalling, the Canadian government is finally bringing Suaad Hagi Mohamud’s needless exile in Kenya to a close by preparing travel documents for her return home. For family and friends in Toronto’s Somali community, that is a relief. But it hardly lets Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government off the hook. The shameful...Continue reading »
After 20 Twin Cities Somali men disappeared and then turned up in Somalia with a terrorist group, U.S. government scrutiny and parental vigilance have countered the problem, said Saeed Fahia, a Somali elder. A prominent Minneapolis Somali community leader said Tuesday that he believes the recruitment of young Somali-Americans from the Twin Cities to fight jihad in their...Continue reading »
Ardo Mohamed (right) quizzed students, including Burhan Ali (left), on Somali vocabulary words during a recent class. Some of the students are taking the six-week course to better communicate with their parents. (Suzanne Kreiter/ Globe Staff) By Maria Sacchetti (Boston Globe) Until this year, 14-year-old Burhan Ali could hardly speak to his mother. His...Continue reading »
TORONTO — Ottawa is preparing emergency travel documents to bring a Toronto woman marooned in Kenya home. The move comes after her lawyer said a 99.9 per cent positive DNA test proves Suaad Hagi Mohamud’s identity. The Somali-born woman has been stuck in Nairobi for more than two months after she was told her lips did not match her passport photo when she...Continue reading »
By Bruce Cadwallader (Dispatch)Â — A 19-year-old man was sent to prison today for his role in the shooting death of a Somali man in March at the Iftin Restaurant. Two 17-year-old boys and a 17-year-old girl have been charged as adults in the case. Carlos Cox, 19, of 3048 Howey Rd., pleaded guilty as an accomplice today in the death of Daud Osman in March. Osman,...Continue reading »
Hared Jibril recently opened Hormud Meat-Grocery Market Inc. in St. Cloud. (Dave Schwarz, [email protected]) By Britt Johnsen (SCTimes) A new Somali-owned market and community center has opened under ownership familiar to the St. Cloud area, and despite the recession, its new owner is confident it will thrive. Hared Jibril opened Hormud Meat-Grocery Market Inc....Continue reading »
