Category Archives: Diaspora [ QURBAHA ]
Press Release July 28, 2009  The Canadian Somali Congress is extremely disappointed by the conviction of Canadian citizen Bashir Makhtal in an Ethiopian court on July 27, 2009. Mr. Makhtal could face the death penalty after the court found him guilty Monday of being a member of a rebel group fighting for autonomy for an ethnically Somali part of Ethiopia. ...Continue reading »
The three-day event was aimed at educating Somali youth and providing opportunities for leadership. Minneapolis, which has the largest Somali population in the country , has recently seen gang violence, a series of murders and the mysterious disappearances of about 20 men, two of whom were charged with aiding terrorists. In hopes of finding ways to solve such issues, the...Continue reading »
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC-DT) — Rochester police are trying to find a man who they say sexually assaulted a woman Monday morning. The woman said she needed a ride from the Workforce Center to the library and accepted one from a man she did not know. She says the man did not take her to the library as she had asked, instead sexually assaulted her. The woman told...Continue reading »
Waxaa maalintii axadda ahayd lagusoo dhamaystiray Kulan sanadeedkii labaad ee dhallinyarada Soomaaliyeed oo lagu qabtay magaalada Minneapolis ee Minnesota. Halkan ka daawo Fiidiyoowgii: Halkan ka daawo Sawiradii maalintii saddexaad Halkan riix si aad u daawato saddexdii maalmood wixii dhacay iyo wixii laga qoray. Â Â ______________________________________________________________________________ www.BARTAMAHA.COM ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Even the federal prosecutors who charged a 25-year-old Minnesota man with aiding terrorists admit he didn’t know he was signing up for jihad when he accepted a free trip to Somalia. Abdifatah Yusuf Isse told investigators he grabbed the free ticket to see his grandmother in his homeland. But after arriving, he joined up with al-Qaida-allied Somali...Continue reading »
Waxaa si habsami leh lagu gaaray gabagabadii iyo gunaanadkii kulan kii labaad ee Dhalin yarada Soomaaliyeed oo ka dhacayey sadexdii cisho ee lasoo dhaafay magalada Minneapolis, MN. Kulankan oo loogu magac daray Hirasho iyo Horumar ayaa waxaa maanta la gaaray guulo waa weyn iyo natiijooyin wax ku’ool leh oo loo soo bandhigi doono bulshada Soomaaliyeed. Natiijoyinka,...Continue reading »
Maalintii labaad ee kulankii labaad ee dhalinyarada Soomaaliyeed sawiradii aan ka soo qadanay goobtaas oo ay dad badan ka hadleen oo sharaf kule beesha Soomaaliyeed qaarkoodna ay uga yimaadeen dhul fogfog sida Ingiriiska iyo meelo kale oo kamida Maraykanka. Halkan ka Daawo Sawirada Halkan ka daawo Video-ga ...
Emotional day at county courthouse BINGHAMTON – Call it the luck o’ the Irish. After 12 years on this side of the Atlantic, Ireland-born Veronica Hroncich was ready to become an American citizen. She expected her husband John to be at her side, along with her sister, Majella O’Brien-Chute of Boston. She didn’t expect her father to show up at the...Continue reading »
Willmar, Minn. — As the west-central Minnesota city of Willmar becomes increasingly diverse, an entrepreneur is trying to fill a niche for those growing populations. A local journalist is publishing a newspaper in English, Spanish and Somali. Marian Sanchez is the founder and president of La Gran America. Sanchez said her venture started when she was working for...Continue reading »
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ― The second annual international Somali Youth Summit is being held in Minneapolis this weekend. The event is expected to draw Somali youth leaders as well as teachers from as far away as London and Toronto to the three-day event at the University of Minnesota Law School. Meetings kick off Friday. The event’s agenda is to educate Somali youth...Continue reading »
The streets of Eastleigh, a neighborhood of Nairobi known as “Little Mogadishu,” are full of deep potholes, dust, and exhaust fumes. Somali women, many covered from head to toe, are braving the traffic. The smell of traditional Somali spices competes with the smoke from badly maintained engines. The traffic eases and the hubbub dies down only after the calls...Continue reading »
Minnesota – Organizers of this year’s Somali Independence Day soccer tournament barred a section of Twin Cities mainstream media from reporting on the scene accusing them of a continuous “negative publicity and profiling of the community in a bad lightâ€. The tournament’s spokesperson Abdirizack Ismail Said Maashal, told Mshale of his doubts...Continue reading »
A SOMALI community group is holding a public meeting to tackling violent crime in memory of a student killed in Wealdstone. Harrow Association of Somali Voluntary Organisations (HASVO) is bringing residents together in an effort to tackle problems members say exist in their community. The event, on Wednesday, July 29, aims to address issues like gang culture and drug abuse...Continue reading »
African news and analysis from the BBC’s Focus on Africa and Network Africa programmes; the Africa Today podcast contains the day’s top stories Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. AudioPlayer.embed("audioplayer_1",...Continue reading »
Company and a St. Paul rights group reached an agreement that included a promise by the company to accommodate prayer breaks. A major retail chain has rehired a fired Muslim employee in the Twin Cities and is now accommodating his right to pray in the workplace. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Monday that Wal-Mart agreed to...Continue reading »
The city devoted $40,000 this summer for preventing Somali youth violence. Cedar-Riverside’s violent episodes in 2008 were a wake-up call for the city of Minneapolis, prompting it to set aside a one-time grant to help reduce youth violence in the neighborhood. Mayor R.T. Rybak budgeted $75,000 in early 2009 for empowering specific programs for prevention of the...Continue reading »
St. Paul, Minn. — A handful of young Somali-American activists said they’re convinced that the roughly 20 Minnesota men who left to fight in their homeland went voluntarily, raised their own money and recruited one another. At a brief press conference Tuesday, activist Aman Obsiye of the group United Somali Movement touted a copy of a recent investigative...Continue reading »
A community member also announced his candidacy for city council today. Members of the Minneapolis Somali community applauded the recent indictments of two Somali men on terrorism-related charges at a press conference Tuesday, emphasizing that the men acted against the views of the community. A federal grand jury indicted in Februrary Salah Osman Ahmed of Brooklyn Park...Continue reading »
