MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A Somali activist says 1 of the young Somali men who left Minneapolis to return to their homeland last November has been reported killed in Mogadishu. Omar Jamal is executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in Minneapolis. He did not release the name of the man, who was about 18, but said Saturday his group is looking into the case. Groups...Continue reading »
Category Archives: Diaspora [ QURBAHA ]
 Tiny Postville, Iowa, struggles to regain its footing one year after the largest immigration sweep in US history. Postville, Iowa - This town tucked in the black-loam corner of northeastern Iowa has long been a bustling, polyglot place. If it was a morning pastry you wanted, you could get it at a Somali-run coffee shop. Other red-brick storefronts along Lawler Street,...Continue reading »
Minnesota:-Waxaa dhammaan Soomaalida Minnesota degan lagu marti gali nayaa in ay ka soo qayb galaan Muxaara daad ka dhici doona Masjiddu Rowda Maalin nimada sabtida Salaadda casar ka dib,Waxaa Muxaadaraad kaan ka qayb qaadanaya Sh.Dr Ahmed Haji Abdirahman iyo Sheikh Abdiqadir Nur Farah Iyo Sheikh Mustafa Abdirahman Ibrahim iyo Waliba Sheikh abdirizaq Hashi Nur iyo Imaamka...Continue reading »
Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout sits with a child in Mogadishu, Somalia, in this undated handout photo. Lindhout, 27, and three others were abducted Aug. 23, 2008. John Goddard (Toronto Star)Â — Few cut as glamorous a figure as the freelance journalist in a conflict zone, especially when she is a long-legged beauty. Laptop computer, digital cameras...Continue reading »
Ururka Horn of Africa Community Development waxay ku howljiraan in ay dhisaan Rugta kaydka Bawaagta iyo Cilmibaarista oo laga furi doono Magaalada Galkacayo waxay qabteen xafladii ugu horaysay ee ay ku raadinayaan lacagtii lagu dhisilahaa Rugtaas cusub waxay u bahan tahay rugtaasi lacag gaaraysa $70,000. waxaa xafladaas nooga qayb galay Mahamed (wiilwaal) wuxuuna...Continue reading »
Iyadoo dagaalo xoogan ay maalmihii ugu danbeeyay ka soconayeen qaybo kamid ah magaalada Muqdisho ee caasimada Soomaaliya ayaa waxaa si wayn uga soconaya magaalada, Barakac baahsan oo dadka rayidka ah ay uga cararayaan dagaaladaasi Hay’ada Oxfom ayaa bayaan ay soo saartay ku sheegtay in dad aad u farabadan ay ka barakecen dagaaladii ugu danbeeyay ee ka dhacay magaalada...Continue reading »
by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio — St. Paul, Minn. — A teenager charged with fatally shooting a Somali-American college student in Minneapolis eight months ago has been released from jail. The student’s family says prosecutors moved to dismiss the case because key witnesses were not willing to testify. Prosecutors told family members of Ahmednur...Continue reading »
Soomalida degan gobolka Minnesota ayaa tiradooda lagu qiyaasaa in ay ka badan yihiin ilaa todobaatan kun oo qof, hadana aan lahayn ururo siyaasadeed oo badan. Xaflad si qurux badan loo soo agaasimay ayaa ka dhacday maanta 05/30/09, saacada markay ahayd afartii galabnimo, qolka shirarka ee Taj-Mahal ee ku yaala Ceder iyo Lake Street meesha ay iska gooyaan. Xafladan oo ay...Continue reading »
BERBERA, SOMALILAND – On a blazing morning in early May, Hassan Abdullahi and eight other men got into their small, wooden boat – each armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, a grenade, and outsized hope. They pushed out from a village near Bossasso, a large port in the Puntland region of Somalia, into the gentle waters of the Gulf of Aden to seek their fortune. They...Continue reading »
 by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio — A federal terror investigation into a dozen missing Somali men from Minneapolis has dominated recent headlines. But gang-related street violence remains a much more common trap for troubled Somali-American youth. Many of these young refugees live in poverty and are struggling to adjust to American life. Minneapolis,...Continue reading »
 Columbus, Ohio A former North Side man has been sent to state prison for 10 years for the killing of a Somali immigrant on Nov. 20, 2004, during a dispute.  In March, Rasi Robinson, 31, who lived on Dresden Street, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter in front of Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Pat Sheeran. Prosecutors said Robinson...Continue reading »
 Jennifer Lewington — Somali-born doctor Cadigia Ali has carved out a successful new life here as a community volunteer, public servant and now aspiring politician, but is living proof of the findings of a new report released Wednesday on the low presence of visible minorities in leadership posts in the Toronto area. Ms. Ali, 59, a live-wire personality who...Continue reading »
SANDUSKY (AP) — An Ohio county has asked the FBI to find out who made scores of lengthy calls to Somalia at taxpayers’ expense. Telecommunications coordinator Bob Hall with the Erie County Emergency Management Agency says a person phoned a county agency’s voicemail system last month and was able to reroute more than 120 calls to Somalia. The county’s...Continue reading »
MOGADISHU (AFP) — A Canadian reporter and an Australian photographer who have been held hostage in Somalia for nine months said they are in poor health and have sought greater help from their governments to secure their release. Freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout and photographer Nigel Brennan spoke to an AFP correspondent in Mogadishu by phone for five minutes...Continue reading »
Kenyan anti-terrorism officials are analysing information about the alleged recruitment of local youth to fight alongside the al-Shabaab militia in war-ravaged Somalia. A few of them were traced to the village of Liboi, 150 km east of Garissa in northeastern Kenya, on their way to the missions into which they had been secretly recruited by al-Shabaab. The youth, who...Continue reading »
Ali Abdinur Samo, 26, a retired Somali pirate, now lives in Eastleigh, a ramshackle enclave in Nairobi, Kenya. NAIROBI, Kenya — Young, newly rich and restless, Ali Abdinur Samo wasn’t long for his dead-end homeland of Somalia. The 26-year-old recently decamped to Kenya, East Africa’s land of opportunity, to put his wealth to work. “I’m looking...Continue reading »
(Twin Cities) By Mara H. Gottfried — St. Paul police are investigating a juvenile prostitution ring run by gang members, according to a search warrant filed this week. A juvenile female told an investigator four males had sexually assaulted her in Brooklyn Park in April, according to an affidavit in support of a search warrant. St. Paul police are involved in the...Continue reading »
