A Kenyan passport officer arrested Suaad Hagi Mohamud, saying her lips were unlike those in the passport photo. - NICK WADHAMS FOR THE TORONTO STAR Using facial recognition techniques indicate Suaad Hagi Mohamud, accused of using false passport, is likely who she says she is. Raveena Aulakh (Toronto Star Staff Reporter) — On the face of it, Suaad Hagi Mohamud’s...Continue reading »
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – An electronic legal help library for low-income families is now branching out to the Somali community. SomaliLawHelp.org , is a new resource of LawHelpMN.org , a website run by the Minnesota Legal Services Coalition and Hennepin County Bar Foundation. The parent website offers services in over 13 languages, and expects the new site to continue...Continue reading »
Four men who appeared in court following yesterday's raids: (top) Saney Aweys, Nayef El Sayed. (bottom) Yacqub Khayre, Abdirahman Ahmed. The arrest of a number of Australian citizens on charges related to terrorism with alleged links to Somalia and Lebanon has drawn attention to the ethnic communities that they were part of in Melbourne. It is also seen the issue of...Continue reading »
Abdul’s unfortunate story begins in the late 1996 during a visit to the Hospital due to complaints of a minor back pain, the irresponsible doctor responded by giving Abdul antipsychotic medication (Zyprexa) Abdul obviously reacted strongly to this medication as he was not in need of it and could not tolerate it, but doctors condescendingly submitted this very young...Continue reading »
FORT MORGAN, Colo. — As meatpacking jobs attract more Somali immigrants to this northeast Colorado farm town, community leaders have found that simply learning a foreign language can be a matter of life and death. On June 1, an immigrant who didn’t understand English-language traffic signs entered the wrong side of Interstate 76 and collided with another car....Continue reading »
Bartamaha(Ohio) waxaa maalintii jimcaha ahayd ka furmay magaalada Columbus ee gobolka Ohio bandhig buugeed aad u baaxad weyn oo ay soo bandhigeen shirkadda Scansom Publishing oo ah shirkadda ugu weyn ee soo saarta buugaagta Soomaalida, waxaana la qabanqaabinayay Somali Culture and Research Institute. Bandhiga waxaa la socday oo hadalo ku saabsan buugaagtooda ka jeedinayay...Continue reading »
Kooxda kubadda cagta ee Somali Tigers ayaa iyadu maalinimadii ay taariikhdu ahayd 08/02/2009 ku guulaysatay koobkii loogu magac daray Minnesota Somali soccer united (MSSU), kaasoo ay isku hirdinayeen siddeed kooxood oo ka tirsanaa kooxaha kubadda cagta ee ka dhisan Minnesota oo kala ah: Cedar Stars, Midnimo, Somali Tigers, Owatona, Twin Cities,Communality,Edenpraire iyo...Continue reading »
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation searched the office of a Minnesota travel agency this week for clues to the disappearance of 20 Somali-American men believed to be fighting in Somalia’s civil war. Omar Jamal, spokesman for the Somali Justice Advocacy Center, says the owner of Amana Travel was approached several months ago by two young men who wanted to travel...Continue reading »
One of the largest Somali Book Festival has opened in Columbus, Ohio today . Jointly arranged by Scansom Publishers  Somali Culture and Research Institute. The event will run Friday August 7th, Saturday August 8th and Sunday August 9th at Global Mall 2210 Columbus, Ohio 43329 Watch Video here Scansom is the leading Somali book publisher in the world. Photos | ...Continue reading »
by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio — St. Paul, Minn. — The editor of a popular news Web site for young Somalis around the world was attacked last night in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis. Mohamoud Treek, 22, said he was on his way to visit a friend at Riverside Plaza around midnight, when he saw at least two men jump out of a car. Treek...Continue reading »
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland has visited a Melbourne mosque to assure worshippers they are all Australians and shouldn’t feel like second-class citizens. Mr Overland went to the 8 Blacks prayer centre in North Melbourne, believed to have been attended by three of the five men charged this week over terrorism offences. Many Muslims have said...Continue reading »
NAIROBI, Aug. 5 — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Somali President Sharif Ahmed are expected to discuss weighty security issues when they meet in this city Thursday. But many Somalis will be paying close attention to a more delicate, but highly symbolic, matter of diplomacy: whether the two will shake hands. “The talk is everywhere,” said...Continue reading »
A preliminary hearing is underway today for a 22-year-old man accused of stabbing his friend to death outside a Rathburn Rd. apartment complex last summer. The purpose of the hearing is to determine whether the Crown Attorney’s Office has enough evidence against Brampton resident Tristan Landriault, to warrant a trial. The hearing is scheduled to last at least through...Continue reading »
Bartamaha Ohio — Xaflad loogu dabaaldegayay sanadguuradii 11aad ee Dowladda Puntland ee Soomaaliya ayaa waxaa lagu qabtay magaalada Columbus ee gobolka Ohio habeenimadii sabtidii taariikhduna ahayd 1dii bisha Agoosto. Xafladdan oo ay soo qabanqaabiyeen jaaliyadda Puntland ee Ohio waxaa ka hadlay cuqaal iyo madaxda Soomaaliyeed ee kunool magaalada Columbus, waxaa...Continue reading »
Canadian Bashir Ahmed Makhtal, shown in this undated family handout photo, was found guilty on terrorism-related charges. (Toronto Star/Canadian Press) CBC NEWS — The Ethiopian High Court in Addis Ababa sentenced a Canadian citizen to life imprisonment Monday for being a member of an Ethiopian rebel group and engaging in terrorist activities. In a statement, the...Continue reading »
Rochester, MN (KTTC-DT) –Despite a battle over health care reform, those in the U.S. are lucky to have doctors who can fix serious health defects. Imagine having a debilitating health problem while living in a small village in war-torn Somalia. One Rochester man is saving lives by relocating the sickest of the sick. It’s hard not to smile when young Mohamed...Continue reading »
Mayor Stephen Mandel has offered some sage advice to the youths of Edmonton’s Somali community, says one young member. “He just encouraged us. He said it was up to us now,” Mariam Abdi recalled. “He said our parents are older. They did what they could to help us, but now it’s our turn to make a difference in the Somalian community,”...Continue reading »
Kenyan airport official threatened Toronto man with jail. After handing over $50, he boarded flight Seeing a woman desperately stranded in Kenya calls to mind other horror stories for Toronto Somali-born travellers. “Many people have a very bad problem there,” says Hussein Adani, a former Somali track star and owner of New Bilan restaurant on Dundas St. E. Adani...Continue reading »
Century student Fartun Ahmed of Minnetonka, whose career goal is to become a superintendent of schools, has assumed a youth leadership position at the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque near the University of Minnesota. She is responsible for helping plan educational activities for over 200 young people, and contributes articles to the mosque newspaper, the Dar Al-Hijrah Times. Ahmed,...Continue reading »
