Category: NEWS in ENGLISH
A British Islamic State leader has set up a base in Somalia to extend its influence in the Horn of Africa for the first time.
Muqdisho, April 30, 2016: Somali commanders have urged the international community to help crush the operation, amid growing…
Struggling for survival in drought-hit Somaliland
REUTERS | HARGEISA, Somalia | By Siegfried Modola – In the past three months, Amina Ibrahim Shirwa…
Levi Karuhanga, the General who pacified Liberia, Somalia
DAILY MONITOR | April 29, 2016 – The late Maj. Gen. Levi Karuhanga has been described as…
Minnesota policymakers, here’s the right way to help Somali-Americans
Hint: Stop stigmatizing these marginalized residents as terrorists. Star Tribune | By Multiple authors | April 27,…
US Charges 2 in Attack on 3 Somali Men in Kansas
VOA News | April 28, 2016 – U.S. federal prosecutors have announced hate-crimes charges against two men…
Al-Shabab Fighters Loyal to Islamic State Complicate Somalia Security
FILE – Al-Shabab fighters are seen marching with their weapons during exercises on the outskirts of…
Somalia: Towards self-reliance with farming cooperatives
In a small rural village near Beletweyne, Somalia, families rely on a cooperative project to grow and…
Minnesota T.S.A. Manager Says He Was Told to Target Somali-Americans
Andrew Rhoades, an assistant federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration, also works with Somalis in…
Somali activists use social media to warn of the high costs, and risks, of seeking refuge in Europe
PRI | April 26, 2016 | By Rachel Gotbaum – Hundreds of Somalis drowned in the Mediterranean Sea while…
Somalia: Sexual violence must be subject to criminal justice, not traditional Xeer systems, says UN expert
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 25, 2016/APO (African Press Organization)/ — The UN Independent Expert on the situation of…
The High-Level Ceremony for the Signing of the Paris Agreement
United Nations Headquarters April 22, 2016 Statement of H.E. the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia…
Migrant crisis: How Many More Lives?
by Mark T Jones International Speaker & Leadership Specialist Muqdisho, April 24, 2016: This week we were…