MINNEAPOLIS—A Minnesota man accused of helping to recruit and finance U.S. fighters for an overseas terror group heads to trial Monday in a case that’s...Continue reading »
Category Archives: Diaspora [ QURBAHA ]
Ninkan Cabsan ayaa lagu weydiiyey suaalo inuu ka jawaabo laguna baaro garoonka dayuuradaha ee Sydney Australia, laakiin sida aad ka arki doontid wuxuu...Continue reading »
Lewiston Mayor Robert MacDonald is once again facing criticism for remarks he made about Somali refugees in Maine’s second-largest city. In a recent...Continue reading »
Hundreds gathered at a Toronto mosque Monday to mourn the loss of a teenage girl who died when she was hit by a car driven by her sister. Fartun Abdulle,...Continue reading »
20-kii bishan waxaa Muqdisho ka dhacay labo qorax oo geystay khasaare aad u faro badan, waxaana qaraxyadaas ku dhintay dad badan oo ay ku jireen wariyayaal...Continue reading »
Ahmed Jama’s dream of opening a string of restaurants in his home city has been a costly one. The would-be catering mogul has lost relatives, friends,...Continue reading »
Last week, Abdul Warsame spent an afternoon at the Khalid Bin-Walid mosque in the Rexdale neighbourhood mourning 28-year-old Abdulaziz Farah. In a fiery...Continue reading »
A Minnesota man recently traveled to Somalia to join al-Shabab, a spokesman for his family said, renewing fears that the terror group is continuing...Continue reading »
Minneapolis News and Weather KMSP FOX 9 MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) – Many Somalis in the Twin Cities say they condemn the violence that has broken out in recent days, and they are now trying to educate the community about Islam and how the embassy attack in Africa casts undue shadow on their faith. In the past week, images of violence have poured out of television screens...Continue reading »
LEWISTON, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — In a column published earlier this month, Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald said most complaints about Somali relations in Lewiston/Auburn are coming from “white do-gooders and their carpetbagger friends.” The full text of the column can be found here. Somalis began settling in the Lewiston/Auburn area about 10 years ago....Continue reading »
A federal judge in Minneapolis reinstated contempt charges Tuesday against a Somali woman who had refused to stand in respect to the court during her trial last year on charges related to terrorism. Then he dropped the jail time he’d imposed. Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis cited Amina Farah Ali for contempt 20 times when she refused to stand along with others...Continue reading »
Two Canadian-Somali men were shot to death overnight in a notorious part of west-end Toronto. Suleiman Ali and Warsame Ali, both 26, were found around Jamestown Crescent, in Etobicoke, suffering obvious gunshot wounds. Both were pronounced dead at the scene, only steps from Greenholme Middle Junior School. Both men are from Vaughan, police said. They are not related. Abdifatah...Continue reading »
Seven months ago, on her first day volunteering at a pediatric hospital in Mogadishu, Toronto Public Health nurse Safia Nur Ahmed observed a woman moaning and lying on the ground under a tree, apparently left alone to die. Instinctively, Ahmed went to the woman. “I touch her hand and she grabs my hand and puts it on her chest and squeezes it,” she says. Ahmed began...Continue reading »
Seven people were arrested yesterday on suspicion of raising money for terrorism by smuggling a banned stimulant drug from England to the US. The suspects were held during a series of co-ordinated raids on homes in four cities and towns across England and Wales. They have been linked to a multi-million-pound international conspiracy to import a drug called khat to the...Continue reading »
Members of Ottawa’s Somali community are mourning the death of a Somali member of Parliament and wounding of a former community leader following a suicide bombing in the central Somali town of Dusamareb on Tuesday. Ahmed Abdisalaam Haaji Adan, a former Ottawa resident, was wounded in the attack and is reported to be in hospital, although the extent of his injuries cannot...Continue reading »
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Danish Supreme Court has upheld a 10-year prison sentence for a Somali man who broke into the home of a cartoonist known for caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad. The court says Muhideen Mohammed Geelle was guilty of a terror attempt for breaking into Kurt Westergaard’s house with an ax in 2010 and rejected his claim he only wanted to frighten...Continue reading »
Twice a week, the Somali and Oromo Senior Nutrition Program offers fitness routines, cooking demonstrations, language classes and nutrition education. Farah said the program is an important social connection for seniors, who sometimes live in isolation. Group members also formed a Somali elder advice group that visits the sick, counsels family conflicts and collects money...Continue reading »
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A young woman at the center of a trial involving nine defendants accused in a Somali gang child sex trafficking case testified Monday that she was supposed to sexually service gang members for free. Gang members used fraud and force to lead a 12-year-old 6th grader in suburban Minneapolis into a life of prostitution that involved being repeatedly...Continue reading »
The young Somali patient had received attentive, proper treatment and had “a very good shot” at surviving her case of hepatitis, according to the doctor who saw her last year at the University of Minnesota-Fairview Medical Center. But when she was offered a new liver, despite the best efforts of a Somali interpreter, her family had too many questions that couldn’t...Continue reading »
