Recognizing the Transitional Federal Charter as the basis for the legitimacy of all Transitional Federal Institutions.
The President of the Transitional Federal ....
A Somali man living in Columbus was arrested yesterday by FBI agents after he was charged in Minnesota with providing money and other assistance to the Somali...
Abdi Ali Mohamud, a 43-year-old father, was shot and killed in an alley on Friday. Two weeks earlier, Yusuf Abdirahim, 20, was beaten to death. They are two of three Somali men killed this year in Edmonton, 14 in the city...
Canadian officials are continuing to investigate the death of a militant leader in Somalia this week, as political unrest sparked massive protests Thursday on the streets of Mogadisho. An army commander told Mogadishu’s ...
CNN, June 10, 2011 -- One of two suicide bombers responsible for killing two African Union soldiers in Somalia was from Minnesota, the FBI announced Thursday. ...
ADDIS ABABA, - Ethiopia's government has signed a deal to buy more than 200 tanks at a cost of $100 million from Ukraine's state-owned military hardware export ...
An Atlanta athlete may have single-handedly set in motion a change in international rules governing how Islamic women may dress in at least one popular sport -- weightlifting. The case of Kulsoom Abdullah, a ...
Halkan ka daawo qaar ka mid ah sawirraddii mudaharaadkii maanta ka dhacay Muqdisho ee looga soo horjeeday heshiiska labada Shariif iyo iscasilaadda Farmajo
Raadiyo Wardheer, June 09, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah heshiis dhexmaray Sh. Shariif Sh. Axmed iyo Shariif Xasan oo ku aaddan in xukuumad cusub la soo dhiso, xukuumdda Farmajona is ...
MOGADISHU, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of people took to the streets in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday in support of Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi ...
After months of squabbling that angered donors and jeopardised gains from Islamist militants, the rival leaders of Somalia's government have agreed to delay elections. Both President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed and ...
MOGADISHU June 09, 2011 (AFP) — Two suicide bombers attacked the port in the Somalia capital Mogadishu Thursday, killing two civilian workers and also losing...
The Obama administration's dual track policy toward Somalia has had disturbing consequences on the efforts of building peace and a functioning state in Somalia. US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs ...
WASHINGTON June 09, 2011 (AFP) — Al-Qaeda linked militants who control much of Somalia are looking to extend their operations and carry out attacks abroad,...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — As one nation after another has battled uprisings across the Arab world, the one major country spared is also its richest — Saudi Arabia, where a fresh infusion of money has so far bought order. ...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant...
The family that has ruled the African nation of Gabon for decades has been accused of taking bribes, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars, and presiding over a system rife with corruption, but that hasn't stopped...
The 19th meeting of the International Contact Group on Somalia (ICG) was held under the chairmanship of the United Nations Special Representative of the ...
Toronto- In a historic event held in Toronto on June 4th, diehard fans of international superstar, Saado Ali Warsame, thronged the upscale Taj Banquet Centre to see...
Somali forces are closing in on a top Kenyan militia fighting alongside the al Shabaab, the transitional government in Mogadishu said on Tuesday. Transitional Federal Government and African Mission forces are...
The world's worst food security crisis is continuing in the eastern Horn of Africa, a US agency has warned. The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) said areas of particular concern were in Ethiopia, Kenya & Somalia
Raadiyo Wardheer, June 07, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah in ka badan 10 qof oo carruur badan ayaa la sheegay in ay dhinteen ka dib markii baabuur ay saaraayeen lagu rasaaseeyay goob...
At the hearing yesterday, Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard that Muse, who has a degree in mathematics and used to play for the Somali national football squad, ...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Jamia Mosque in the middle of Nairobi is crammed for Friday prayers. Thousands of devout Muslims answer the muezzin’s call, kneeling ...
St. Paul, Minn. — Family members have identified the Minnesota man who African peacekeepers say tried to detonate himself in a suicide bombing last week in Mogadishu. He is 27-year-old Farah Mohamed Beledi, formerly of St. Paul. Beledi is a familiar name to federal authorities. Last year a grand ...
Somalia militants loyal to al-Shabaab, the radical Islamist group strongly opposing the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia have seized some 15 women ...
Piracy was not born on the sea. It is based and begins on land. Tales of Somali pirates have horrified the international community. From the perspective of a Somali ...
In Somalia, the joint forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) are making military progress against the Islamist rebel group al Shabab. The TFG’s internal...
Seafarers captured by Somali pirates have increasingly faced beatings, use as human shields and other forms of torture over the past year, according to the authors ...
A senior commander of Uganda Battle Group Six has been killed in an attack by the al-Shabaab militants in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. According to military ...
New Design World Press Center - The United Nations envoy for Somalia has proposed the setting up of benchmarks and a monitoring mechanism to encourage the ...
When Omar Hussein was young his parents moved to the U.S. to escape civil war in Somalia. When he arrived here he only knew the Somali language. “We used to have to walk from city to city in Somalia,” says his grandmother, “and that was our exercise and many first generation Somali didn’t know any ...
KAMPALA, Uganda (Dow Jones) -- Somalia's al Qaeda-inspired al Shabab militants killed four Ugandan troops over the weekend, including a senior army officer..
The current drought in Somalia is no ordinary drought. It is the worst the country has seen in 36 years. Most areas have received little or no rain for nine months. ...
NAIROBI, Jun e05, 2011 (Reuters) - Twenty eight people were injured in the Kenyan capital on Sunday in a blast that police suspect went off at a hardware shop, setting
His partner has often talked of her desire to have children. So TV historian Niall Ferguson must be a happy man after news that Somali-born feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali is expecting. The 41-year-old writer has told friends in America she is five months pregnant. Ferguson, 47, already has three children ...
The Damanyo military camp, popularly known as Shirkole Ofishiale, is now under the control of Somali Government Forces and African Union (AU) peacekeepers, the
WASHINGTON — Yemen’s embattled president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for urgent medical treatment of wounds sustained in a bold attack on the presidential compound, Saudi officials said, abruptly...
BURUNDI'S president, Pierre Nkurunziza, has said that his country will not abandon the liberation mission in Somalia but warned that unsteady facilitation and...
Fears are rising that South Africa could face a new wave of xenophobic violence as mock eviction notices are issued to foreign traders in townships around ...
Jim Traficant, a former Democratic Representative in the United States Congress from Ohio talks about Jewish control of America.The mass media forms the image of the world and what to think about that image.
Raadiyo Wardheer, June 04, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah dagaalo la isku adeegsaday hubka culus ayaa maanta mar kale ka bilowday magaaladada Muqdisho, kaasi oo u dhexeeya ciidamada
New York, Jun 4 : The United Nations envoy for Somalia has proposed the setting up of benchmarks and a monitoring mechanism to encourage the Transitional Federal
WardheerNews, June 04, 2011( WDN) - WardheerNews Interviewed Major General Ahmed Sheikh Farah, a decorated veteran of a former Kenyan naval officer. Mr. Farah is currently a member of the Commission of the Truth,
MOGADISHU, June 04, 2011 (Reuters) - African Union troops with Somali government soldiers captured a strategic district in the capital Mogadishu from al Shabaab
Wajir's former District Commissioner Joshua Matui, who served during the 1984 Wagalla Massacre, expressed regret that security men tortured men from Degodia
Days after the 9/11 terror attacks, 31-year old laborer Mark Stroman went on a shooting spree in the Dallas area. In a drug-fueled mission of revenge, he killed two South Asian immigrants and shot another — Rais Bhuiyan —...
WASHINGTON — The embattled president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, narrowly survived an attack on the presidential palace Friday morning when an explosion
Moyo's argues in her book "we live in culture of aid. We live in a culture in which those who are better off subscribe both mentally and financially to the notion that giving alms to the poor is the right thing to do. But has more than US $ 1 trillion in development assistane over the last decades made African...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said Somalia's transitional government should be given another year to consolidate gains against militants.
Otherwise...
KAMPALA, June 3 (Reuters) - Somalia's feuding government should be given another year to fight Islamist rebels or its battlefield gains may be undone and...
CNN -- Somali government forces and African Union troops pushed al Qaeda-linked militants out of its last outpost in the western part of Mogadishu, opening the main artery to the famed Bakaara Market, the ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Federal authorities said they are trying to confirm the identity of a suicide bomber who carried out a deadly attack in Somalia after a militant ...
MOGADISHU, June 03 (Xinhua) – As the much-anticipated and controversial so-called consultative meeting for Somalia's political rivals fast approaches, members ...
McLEAN, Va. – The words hit Aziz Nouhaili like a punch to the gut: After the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait confiscated his passport, an official told him he should no longer consider himself as a U.S. citizen. Nouhaili, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Morocco, has been trying for nearly four months to get home ...
Raadiyo Wardheer, June 02, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah dawladda kmg ah oo qorshaynaysa in ay ciidamo boolis ah oo ka hawlgala saldhigyada degmooyinka ay dhawaan ka qabsadeen...
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A man who carried out a suicide bomb attack at a peacekeepers' base in Mogadishu this week was a Somali-American from Minnesota...
When Bilal Philips turned up in Frankfurt in April to address a demonstration organized by a local Muslim leader, German immigration police quickly expelled him for advocating the killing of homosexuals. ...
Controversy has surrounded attempts by several state legislatures to limit the consideration of Islamic religious law (commonly referred to as sharia) or ...
The International Contact Group on Somalia is seeking $304 million to deal with a humanitarian crisis resulting from drought and conflict in the war-torn African...
Puntland Press Release posted on the Somali website Wardheernews on May 30th may be diabolical and despicable but it comes as no surprise given its history of betrayal and backstabbing. It lambastes the SSC freedom...
Children under five years old suffered nearly half the 1,590 injuries caused by weapons last month, said the UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO). ....
SEOUL, June 01, 2011 (AFP) - A Somali pirate was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after he was found guilty of hijacking a South Korean-operated...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia June 01, 2011 (AP) -- A top U.S. commander Wednesday said piracy in Somalia can only be defeated if the international community helps restore..
Somali Amin Ahmed Ismail, 18, died in hospital after the shooting in an alleyway in Fishermead on Thursday. The other victim, Mohamed Abdi Farah, 19, of Birmingham, who was also originally from Somalia, died...
Puntland government has issued a press release (condemning what president Abdirahman Farole sees as “the anti-establishment, militia elements led by ...
U.S. Reps. John Conyers and Hansen Clarke want the federal government to take an active role in countering anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States. ...
Puntland Press Release posted on the Somali website Wardheernews on May 30th may be diabolical and despicable but it comes as no surprise given its history of betrayal and backstabbing. It lambastes the SSC freedom...
MOGADISHU, May 31, 2011 — Two soldiers with the African Union force in Somalia were killed Monday in a suicide attack by Al-Qaeda loyalists that also ...
May 31, 2011 (WDN) - Mr. Ali Buno Korane is a Garissa native and political aspirant for the position of Garissa Governorship. In an interview conducted by WDN ...
Nairobi, Kenya - The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia, Ambassador Boubacar Gaoussou Diarra says the...
General Indha Cadde (previously promoted to a Sheikh after the Union of Islamic Courts defeated the Mogadishu warlords in 2006) is celebrating being promoted to the rank of a General in Mogadishu’s Somali Army. “Now looting a military rank is fashionable”, says the man in the middle. ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 30 (AP) — A Nairobi-based official says five simultaneous suicide attacks have targeted African Union bases in the Somali capital of...
Presidential campaigns for the Somali Transitional Federal Government have started in earnest after the UN Security Council ordered that the elections be held in ...
Puntland is concerned that anti-establishment militia elements led by Col. Ali Sabarey, and supported by the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), has infiltrated the area between the Puntland defense line at Tukaraq ...
Taiwanese citizen Wu Lai-yu was a skipper on a fishing vessel that was hijacked by pirates near Somalia last year. He was killed this month by cross-fire ...
The bride, 19-year-old Khatra Haret, made her way down the aisle, but there is no groom to meet her. The only people waiting by the podium are bridesmaids ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The World Health Organization says a cholera outbreak in Somalia has killed at least 85 people and infected dozens of others. ...
The Government of Puntland State of Somalia categorically rejects a report published on 27 May 2011 by the Financial Times newspaper as propaganda. The report, entitled “Britons held as ransom drop goes wrong,” ...
Addis Ababa, May 30 (WIC) – The twentieth anniversary of Ginbot 20 (May 28) was marked in Jigjiga, Somali Regional State, calling for the need to scale up economic...
Welcome to Shelbyville is a glimpse of America at a crossroads. In this one small town in the heart of America's Bible Belt, a community grapples with rapidly changing demographics. Just a stone's throw away from Pulaski,
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a key announcement at the second India-Africa summit on Tuesday, extending $300 million assistance to a new Ethio-Djibouti...
May 29, 2011,
Ghana’s former President and African Union High Representative for Somalia, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has called on all working towards peace in Somalia to harmonise their thoughts and actions
ADDIS ABABA, May 28, 2011 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Ethiopians marked the 20 year anniversary on Saturday of the removal of former Marxist ruler Mengistu
In this country, people get awfully het up because the law might take a dim view of them tweeting the name of a footballer who has allegedly proved unable to
TWO men last night remained in custody on suspicion of murder after a Birmingham teenager was shot in the head. Mohammed Abdi Farah, 19, and his friend Amin Ahmed Ismail, 18, died after being shot as they fled down an alleyway in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire on Thursday night. ...
Reporting from Sana, Yemen, and Beirut— Violence claimed more lives in Yemen and Syria on Friday as the countries' autocratic regimes again turned to military
Raadiyo Wardheer, May 28, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah Al Shabaab oo caruur kubad ciyaaraya kuwaasi oo ay ku tilmaameen ay ku jireen falgal dahn ka ah diinta Islaamka
The President of Puntland State of Somalia, H.E. Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamud (Farole), has praised the U.N. Security Council Meeting on Somalia, held in Nairobi on 25 May 2011.
In 2008, the Sunday Telegraph’s Chief Foreign Correspondent was kidnapped in lawless Somalia.The cave must stretch about a hundred yards into the mountain.
May 27 (Bloomberg) -- Nicholas Kaiser, chairman of Saturna Capital Corp. and manager of the Amana Income Fund, talks about investing according to Sharia...
May 28, 2011 ( BBC) - Three people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after two teenagers were shot in Milton Keynes. Mohamed Abdi Farah, 19, of Birmingham
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia is flexing its financial and diplomatic might across the Middle East in a wide-ranging bid to contain the tide of change, shield other monarchies from popular discontent and avert the
The Security Council has stressed that a planned consultative meeting of Somalia’s leadership next month should result in agreement on a schedule for elections...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Rebels in Ethiopia's Somali Region said on Thursday they had seized a town from government troops and freed two U.N. workers ...
At the pulpit of an inner-city Chicago mosque, the tall blond imam begins preaching in his customary fashion, touching on the Los Angeles Lakers victory the night before, his own gang involvement as a teenager, ...
NAIROBI, Kenya 27 May 2011 (IRIN) - Telecommunications companies based in Somalia’s largest open-air market have been hit by stray shells in the latest...
NAIROBI, Kenya - African Union troops in Somalia are slowly tightening the noose around the nerve-centre of rebel operations in the capital, but seizing ...
NAIROBI, 26 May 2011 (IRIN) - Instead of joining militias or idling at street corners, the youth in Garowe, the regional capital of the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, are learning skills to help them...
WASHINGTON, May 27, 2011 (AFP) — A tenth Somali man arrested on charges related to the hijacking of a yacht off the coast of Oman in February pleaded guilty ...
The Britons, who are among a group of six foreigners also understood to include two Kenyans and an American - were allegedly caught with $3.6 million in cash at the airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Security ...
Radio Wardheer, May 26, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah kulankii halka maalin ahaa ee ay soo qabanqaabisay Qaramada Midoobay kana soo qayb galeen dawladda kmg ah iyo ...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Members of the United Nations Security Council sent an unusually blunt message to Somalia’s leaders on Wednesday to stop fighting among ...
May 26, 2011: In Mogadishu, AU (African Union) peacekeepers and TNG (Transitional National Government) soldiers continue pushing al Shabaab fighters out of the ...
SEOUL, May 26, 2011 (AFP) — A British broker was involved in two separate ransom negotiations for South Korean-operated ships hijacked off Somalia, prosecutors told a trial of four pirates in South Korea on Thursday. ...
May 26 (Reuters) - Somali government forces and troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) launched a new military push on May 12 and have..
So, it turns out Islam is a religion. Imagine that. Granted, this would be considered self-evident by most of us, but it has been a matter of great controversy...
Radio Wardheer, May 25, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah kulan ay soo qabanqaabisay Qaramada Midoobay oo ay ka qayb galayaan maamulada TFG, Puntland, Somaliland...
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2011 (MFMV) - a platform dedicated to promoting the grassroots voice of Muslims in America, announced today it will partner with ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 25, 2011 (AP) — Somali politicians are returning from Arab nations with briefcases of cash, and a Somali government watchdog report obtained by The Associated Press found that more than $70 million...
As international troops close in on Mogadishu's Bakara market, a stronghold of the militant group al-Shabab, an analyst from the International Crisis Group is...
Aged eight, Abdirashid Duale would rush back from school to take his place in the family’s small shop in Burao, a dusty livestock trading town in Somaliland, selling everything from clothes and shoes to flour and sugar.
Nairobi/Mogadishu, May 25, 2011(DPA) - Somali authorities on Tuesday detained six foreigners and seized two aircraft and 3.6 million dollars in cash they were...
We remain deeply concerned about worsening humanitarian situation and human rights abuses being committed in the Ogaden Region of South Eastern Ethiopia. The region is facing a severe drought and we fear the situation will worsen...
It had taken five days to arrange this meeting. Somali pirates are hard to track down, constantly moving around and changing phone numbers. Days earlier, frustrated ...
Now, as Republicans head full-steam into the nominating process, they face a choice: Tone down the rhetoric, or risk permanently alienating a community that's expected to double in size over the next two decades.
ADDIS ABABA - India stepped up its push to deepen its economic ties with Africa and emerge from the shadow of rival China by offering $5 billion to help the continent...
The UN Security Council (UNSC) is set to send a mission to Kenya on Wednesday to deal with regional peace and security issues in neighboring Somalia. ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 24, 2011 (AP) — A Somali lawmaker says authorities have impounded two planes in the Somali capital carrying millions of dollars in cash. ...
Police in Somalia detained two Americans, two Britons and two Kenyans at the airport in the capital, Mogadishu, after they arrived carrying $3.6 million,Somalia Report ...
African Union troops aim to deny the militant Islamist group Al Shabab funds it receives from taxing shopkeepers and traders. An apparent surge of AU peacekeepers is challenging Al Shabab's tacit control of Somalia.
Tuesday night the city of Shelbyville will be in the national spotlight when the film "Welcome to Shelbyville" is broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens. ...
FBI agents can compare notes about their investigation of a Somali-American teen's plot to bomb a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony outside a Portland, ...
Radio Wardheer, May 23, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah xaaladda magaalada Muqdisho oo weli kacsan, ka dib markii halkaas ay dagaallo ka socdeen maalmihii la soo dhaafay ...
Somaliland, a breakaway republic in northern Somalia, revoked Total SA (FP)’s license to manage an oil-storage facility at the port of Berbera after it...
The changes Shelbyville is experiencing are seen in the context of the election of America’s first African American president. The largely black and white population of Shelbyville were adapting to an influx of Latinos when hundreds of Somali Muslim refugees began moving into town. Welcome to Shelbyville...
The African Union has confirmed that the United Nations is actively considering an air and sea blockade of Somalia but gave no indication if a decision was imminent. ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Government forces and African Union peacekeepers advanced Sunday against rebels in several Mogadishu neighborhoods, gaining ground...
One of 32 children - his father had five wives - he fell out of a window in a freak accident and suffered a spinal injury that left him in a wheelchair. But having been introduced to basketball by now Great Britain team-mate...
SEOUL, May 23, 2011 (AFP) — Four Somali pirates captured in a dramatic commando raid on a hijacked ship went on trial in South Korea Monday on charges ...
Mr. Hashi, who studied politics at the University of Toronto and became a journalist and book publisher in Canada for more than 20 years, now holds one of the toughest jobs in war-torn Somalia. He is the Minister of Public ...
During the 20th century, the veil nearly vanished in many Muslim societies. What caused the disappearance – and reappearance – of this signature feature of Islamic..
Today, Somaliland is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its declaration of independence. On May 18, 1991, Somaliland terminated its union with Somalia aftera decade of struggle against oppression, exploitation
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The revolutions and revolts in the Arab world, playing out over just a few months across two continents, have proved so inspirational to so many
There’s no other explanation for the recent treatment of four members of the Muslim clergy. The imams — two from Memphis and two from New York — were either ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia, May 20, 2011 - Hassan Qasim lies shackled to a wall in a hallway with 25 other patients at a clinic for the mentally ill. He whispers under
May 21, 2011 (Xinhua) - The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Friday condemned Wednesday's indiscriminate shelling of civilians in Somali capital
MURFREESBORO — Islamic Center of Murfreesboro volunteers who pick up trash on Bradyville Pike encountered something they can't clean — black spray paint on their adopt a highway sign. ...
Two Columbus men are among 18 people arrested in Ohio and on the East Coast in what authorities say is an international trafficking ring that brought more than...
BEIJING, May 20, 2011 (AP) – China’s military is urging land attacks on Somali pirate strongholds in a bold call signaling the armed forces’ growing assertiveness
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told President Obama on Friday that he shared his vision for a peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and then promptly listed a series of nonnegotiable conditions
Radio Wardheer, May 20, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah dawladda kmg ah oo markii u horraysay ka hadashay xadhig loo geystay Barre Hiiraale iyo 4 kale oo u xidhan sida la sheegay Itoobiya
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2011 (ST) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) should review its decision against Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir, a senior ...
Eighteen individuals, including 10 from Fairfax County and Alexandria, have been arrested for their alleged roles in an international conspiracy trafficking more than 4.4 million grams of khat throughout the United States. ...
Nairobi - An Ethiopian rebel group said on Thursday that the army and a police unit killed at least three dozen civilians in a crackdown in an ethnically Somali...
The government's use of surveillance, informants and invented plots fails to enhance public safety and instead prompts human rights concerns, an NYU report says. ...
Last year, a Muslim congregation in Murfreesboro, Tenn., a pleasant college town of about 110,000 people southeast of Nashville, decided that the time had come to build a proper mosque.
For 20 years or more, the town's ...
Radio Wardheer, May 19, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah munaasabadda 18 May oo si weyn loo xusay; Kooxda Al Shabaab ee maamula magaalada Kismaayo oo xabsiga u taxaabay odayaal
HARGEISA, May 18, 2011 (AFP) - Somalia — Residents of Somalia's breakaway Somaliland state thronged the streets of the capital Wednesday to celebrate...
As the city continues to undergo its own dramatic demographic shifts, Houston PBS’ Community Cinema offers a chance for Houstonians to look at how this ....
NAIROBI, 18 May 2011 (IRIN) - The vast earnings from piracy off the coast of Somalia leave donor-funded livelihood programmes designed to create economic opportunities for the country’s youth looking like pocket...
The self-proclaimed republic of about 3.5m people, which lies in the northern-most part of Somalia, has enjoyed relative stability and is much more peaceful ...
NAIROBI, 18 May 2011 (IRIN) - The number of people requiring humanitarian assistance in the Horn of Africa could increase sharply in coming months due to below-average rainfall and high food and fuel prices, say aid workers.
Radio Wardheer, May 18, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah magaalada Laas Caanood oo lagu dilay guddoomiyihii maxakamadda ee gobolka Sool, xuska 18 ka May oo ka dhacay
Coca-Cola has issued a second licence within Somalia, which will cover Somaliland and neighbouring, semi-autonomous Puntland, a tacit recognition of Somaliland’s ...
The story is an intimate portrayal of a community’s struggle to understand what it means to be American. Kim Snyder’s documentary goes inside Shelbyville, Tennessee, interviewing long-time residents and new...
Washington, D.C. May 18, 2011 – Christian clergy at churches across the country will host readings from the Qur’an and other sacred religious texts as they welcome ...
THE African Union forces in Somalia (AMISOM) and the Transitional Federal Gov't have gained control over new areas in Mogadishu, AMISOM spokesperson ...
Five years ago, Layla Abdi Nur and her family fled the bullets and bloodshed in Somalia to come to London. The single mother of four could not speak any English when she arrived from Mogadishu.
The U.S. Representative of the de facto country of Somaliland says it is about time for the international community to officially recognize Somaliland as a country. This comes as Somaliland this month celebrates 20 years of ...
The Burco district police detained 40 bread sellers yesterday after “they raised the price of piece of bread was raised from 300 Somaliland shillings to Sl Sh 500 ...
The realization came to Deborah Rashada while she was lying flat out in bed with a broken ankle, staring at the ceiling. Until then, every ounce of her had been dedicated to the happiness of her family. She raised nine children..
Raadiyo Wardheer, May 17, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah wasiirka arimaha dibada ee Soomaaliland oo sheegay in Soomaaliland ay hirgalisay qoshayaal wax ku ool ah oo lagu faain karo
WardheerNews, May 17, 2011 (WDN ) - Somaliland, the self declared region in the Northern part of Somalia will be celebrating its 20th anniversary on May 18, 2011, since it unilaterally seceded from the Somali Republic. In an
PARIS — France’s shock at the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual assault charges turned among some to suspicion and anger Monday, with his defenders
Now, ambassadors from both communities are striving to move from animosity to friendship. Calling themselves the Native American Somali Friendship Committee (NAFSC), they meet monthly to speak frankly...
NAIROBI — The African Union force in Somalia said Monday it had seized several positions from the Al Qaeda-inspired rebels in Mogadishu in a renewed...
Raadiyo Wardheer, May 15, 2011 (RWD) - Wararka ugu doorka roon maanta waxa ka mid ah Muqdishu oo maanta oo degan ka dib markii ay dagaaalo ka socdaan sadexdii cisho ee la soo dhaafay. Kuwaasi oo u dhexeeyay
DETROIT — The Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is opening an investigation to review mounting complaints from...
If any mayor in Britain fancies twinning their town with Mogadishu, now is a good time to apply. The war-torn capital of Somalia may not be as handy as some places in France and Spain, and exchange visits will ...
Immigrants from Somalia are now one of the largest ethnic groups in the Twin Cities, but Somali restaurants haven’t gained nearly as much crossover acceptance as Mexican, Vietnamese or even Thai restaurants. ...
Few weeks ago Puntland administration vowed to deal with pirates harshly by sentencing one of them to death. In May this year, president Farole of Puntland said his administration would attack pirates in Gara’ad district...
Waa hees wacan oo loo qaaday dabbaaldegii loo sameeyay degmada cusub ee Tulli oo dhawaan loo magacaabay degmo. Waxa ka mid aha ereyada heesta: Waa hiil Alle hadday heshay halkii ay higsanaysay, hambalyaannu
To 15-year-old Abrar Salad of St. Louis Park, the novel reflected familiar faces and placessumming up and tying together the many stories of Somalis in Minneapolis," she said
