Minneapolis (AP) — Ahmednur Ali’s family fled the chaos and violence of their East African homeland Somalia in the 1990s, eventually making their way to Minnesota like thousands of their compatriots. While many of the estimated 32,000 Somalis who settled in the state have struggled to adapt, Ali flourished, blazing a path...Continue reading »
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OTTAWA — The lawyer for a woman who was stripped of her Canadian passport and is marooned in Kenya will be in Federal Court on Monday morning seeking immediate government help. Suaad Mohamud Haji has been unable to return to her Toronto home since mid-May after Kenyan airport officials said she didn’t look like her four-year-old passport picture. Despite having...Continue reading »
Boston – No stranger to deprivation, Omar Abdi was 6 years old when his teacher in Somalia punished him for playing soccer by locking him in a dark room overnight, chained by his ankles. Ahmed Ali also knows a little about suffering. After his family fled Somalia, he spent 14 years in a Kenyan refugee camp, where his mother died of malaria. As grateful as both are...Continue reading »
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Somali Americans in Minneapolis-Saint Paul have heard so much bad news lately that it’s become hard to separate fiction from fact. Encircled by tales of missing youth and violence at home and abroad, the tight-knit community is wrestling with outside scrutiny and internal strife. “When you turn on the radio and you turn on the T.V., and there’s something...Continue reading »
Defence Minister Peter MacKay’s decision to approve an eight-year retroactive promotion and financial payout to the officer who led the ill-fated Somalia mission was such a rare occurrence that military paymasters had to partially guess at the amount Col. Serge Labbe would receive, according to newly released Defence Department documents. Last summer, MacKay, acting...Continue reading »
Imagine going to the airport for an international trip, only to find your airline tickets don’t exist. Police are warning people about a Minneapolis travel agency that is accused of swindling perhaps dozens of people. Nearly $1,800 later, Abdi Dualeh’s ailing mother in Kenya is still waiting to see him. He says he went to the airport four times, only to find...Continue reading »
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota man accused of going to Somalia to fight with Islamic militants has waived a detention hearing that had been scheduled for Thursday. The attorney for Salah Osman Ahmed, 26, filed documents Thursday waiving the hearing but did not give a reason. Attorney James Ostgard said Ahmed agreed to his current conditions of confinement and reserves...Continue reading »
Mohamed Asbscir with a photo of his mother, Suaad Hagi Mohamud, who is still trying to prove her identity after claims she used a false passport. John Goddard – Toronto Star – STAFF REPORTER— Strain marks the faces of family and friends as conditions deteriorate for a Toronto woman trapped in Kenya. “I would like for them to bring my mom back,”...Continue reading »
Court records detail Minnesota Somalis’ path to terrorism Star Tribune – First-ever details of Minnesota men training with terrorists in Somalia — learning to fire weapons, building training camps — came to light in court documents released Tuesday. One of the two Somali men indicted for providing support to those terrorists pleaded guilty...Continue reading »
Toronto Star — Canadian officials in Kenya are keeping a Toronto woman in suspense over fingerprint results that could confirm her identity. “When you are waiting for something, it’s too much actually,” the woman said yesterday from Nairobi, where she has been in limbo for eight weeks – including eight days in jail – after being accused...Continue reading »
Mohamoud Hassan When you Really Really Think About It Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 4:56am Our country has been without a government for 17 years and every attempt to create one has ended in failure. Today the Somali people for the first time in many years have an opportunity of seeing the return of a functioning government that has the support of the international community....Continue reading »
Star Tribune —For the second time in two days, a Somali man from Minneapolis has been reported killed in his war-torn homeland, a relative confirmed Sunday. Zakaria Maruf, 30, who is believed to have been among the first wave of young Somali men to leave Minnesota for Somalia over the past two years, was killed Saturday in Mogadishu, the relative said. Maruf is...Continue reading »
Refugees from Kenya living on the West Side, from left, Yonis Osman, 17; Safiya Osman, 15; and Habiba Noor, 14, each selected an East African folktale to illustrate for a recently published book. Before setting pencil to paper, the youths analyzed and enacted their stories. Derek Gee / Buffalo News By Deidre Williams (The Buffalo News)Â — There is an African...Continue reading »
New York Times — More than 20 Somali-Americans have gone to Somalia to enlist in the Shabaab, an Islamist group battling the country’s government. 1991 - A civil war leads to the collapse of Somalia’s last functioning central government. 2006Â – An Islamist group seizes control of much of Somalia for six months until Ethiopian forces, at the...Continue reading »
New York Times MINNEAPOLIS — The Carlson School of Management rises from the asphalt like a monument to capitalist ambition. Stock prices race across an electronic ticker near a sleek entrance and the atrium soars skyward, as if lifting the aspirations of its students. The school’s plucky motto is “Nowhere but here.†For a group of students who...Continue reading »
By Stewart Bell, National Post — A Canadian has been arrested in Somalia for allegedly plotting to bomb leaders of a moderate Islamic group, according to local media reports that identified him as a trained member of the militant Al-Shabab. But the reports could not be verified yesterday due to the lack of press and foreign diplomats in the lawless country, particularly...Continue reading »
Waxaa xafladan Suurta geliyey makhaxida weyn ee SafaariEx oo ugu tala gashay in ay shucuubta soomaalida tusaan dadka ay la degan yihiin iyagoo ka faaiidaystay maalinta xornimada xaflad weyna soo qaban qaabiyey oo loo xidhay suuga weyn oo loo yaqaan Midtown Exchange soona bandhigay hidihii iyo dhaqankii heesihii wadaniga ahaa iyo dad cod kar ah oo u gudiya dadka martida...Continue reading »
Minneapolis — The FBI is investigating what may have motivated the Somali-American men to take up arms in the chaos of their homeland. A fiery speech given by a visiting Somali opposition leader in Minneapolis may provide some clues. // In late 2007, when the first of about a dozen Somali men from Minnesota began to travel to their homeland to fight in a bloody...Continue reading »
