DUBAI: The deputy commander in chief of Dubai police has denied allegations published in a UK-based newspaper that the emirate has been laundering money belonging to Somali pirates. The Independent ran a story on Tuesday claiming that huge amounts of money taken in ransom from vessels hijacked off the Horn of Africa were being laundered in Dubai and other Gulf countries. The...Continue reading »
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Dr. Saadi Taher, director of medical services at King Abdulaziz Medical City, third left, is seen with the twins’ father Shuaeb Ibrahim, second left, and mother Fartoon Sheikh in Riyadh on Wednesday. (AN photo) RIYADH: Huda, a Somali conjoined twin who was saved in an emergency separation surgery performed in March by a team headed by Health Minister Abdullah Al-Rabeeah...Continue reading »
Somalis in a Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya line up for registration by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. © 2008 Marcus Bleasdale/VII (Brussels) – Donor governments meeting in Brussels this week should ensure that pledges of assistance to Somali security forces and African Union troops in Somalia will not contribute to human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said...Continue reading »
By Peter Heinlein (VOA) Addis Ababa — Somalia’s prime minister is calling for a halt to ransom payments to pirates and kidnappers. He says the vast sums being paid are contributing to the rise in ship hijackings and hostage-takings. Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke says the millions of dollars being paid to free captured ships off Somalia’s...Continue reading »
A masked French naval officer with one of the suspected Somali pirates as they disembark from the French naval ship MV Frigate Nivose soon after the ship docked at a Mombasa port today with eleven suspects. Photo by Gideon Maundu. By EUNICE MACHUHI and GITONGA MARETEPosted Wednesday, April 22 2009 at 19:43 Germany has confidence in the manner the Kenyan...Continue reading »
Email Picture New York — Abduhl Wali-i-Musi grew up destitute in Somalia, the oldest of 12 kids and the product of a violent, lawless nation where his parents scraped together a few dollars a day selling milk and tending to a small herd of camels, cows and goats. For entertainment, he would frequent a run-down outdoor cinema and watch Bollywood movies in a...Continue reading »
The European Union says it will pledge at least 60m euros ($78m) towards boosting security in Somalia at a donors meeting in Brussels on Thursday. The international donor conference aims to raise 200m euros ($260m) for the African Union peacekeeping effort and to create national security forces. Those forces could include a 6,000-strong national security force and police...Continue reading »
ANTONIO MARIA COSTAÂ Globe and Mail Why chase Somali pirates for seven hours if you can’t arrest them? Canadian sailors must be asking themselves this question after being in hot pursuit of a Somali skiff in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday, eventually boarding the vessel, disarming the pirates and detaining them. Since the crew of the Canadian warship believed it...Continue reading »
By ROBERT BECKMAN and TOMMY KOH SINGAPORE — The world heaved a sigh of relief when Captain Richard Philips of the U.S. flagged ship, Maersk Alabama, was rescued by the U.S. destroyer Bainbridge. By a coincidence of history, Bainbridge was also the name of the captain of the frigate Philadelphia that was captured by the Barbary pirates in 1803 and its crew of 300...Continue reading »
Omar Jamal gave a good interview on Rick Sanchez. Also The guardian wrote: Muse’s father, Abdiqadir Muse, told Associated Press his son had been tricked by older pirates into going along with them. “He just went with them without knowing what he was getting into,” he said. Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse is led into a federal building by US authorities...Continue reading »
NEW YORK (AP) — The sole survivor of a pirate attack on an American cargo ship off the Somali coast was charged as an adult Tuesday with piracy after a prosecutor said he gave wildly varying ages for himself but finally admitted he was 18. U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck said Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse could be treated as an adult in U.S. courts after a closed...Continue reading »
'Saving Captain Phillips' An Online Game NEW YORK, April 21 /PRNewswire/ — Games2win.com announced the release of its real life inspired online game titled ‘Saving Captain Phillips’ on. The thrilling game is inspired by the courageous and dangerous high sea rescue mission of Captain Richard Phillips, who was captured by rogue Somali Pirates and...Continue reading »
A live performance in London by Aar with his new band. Dhadhami which in English means taste was co-written and composed by Abdinour Alaale; a legendary Somali singer/musician from Djibouti. This song is about a love between two young Somali people in the diaspora, which ends in betrayal. Because of issues relating to tribal discrimination and family arrange mariage. Dhadhami...Continue reading »
Abduhl Wali-i-Musi, seen being escorted into FBI headquarters in New York on Monday, faces charges under two obscure federal laws that deal with piracy and hostage-taking, officials say. NEW YORK – The sole surviving Somali pirate from the hostage-taking of an American ship captain arrived in New York, smiling for a gaggle of cameras and reporters as federal agents...Continue reading »
MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED, Associated Press Writer NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The mother of a captured Somali pirate accused of holding a U.S. captain hostage at sea for five days says he is only 16 years old and appealed Monday to President Barack Obama to release her son. The suspect, identified by his mother as Abdi Wali Abdulqadir Muse, was taken aboard a U.S. Navy ship...Continue reading »
Cabdiweli Muuse War Deg Deg ah Bartamaha — War xaqiiq ah oo hadda na soo gaaray ayaa sheegaya in Wiilkii lagu qabtay markabkii Maerski Cabdiweli Muuse ayaa waxaa lasoo saari doonaa Maxkamad ku taala New York Barri (Talaado, April 21 2009). Waraysi ay siisay idaacadda BBC-da Cabdiweli hooyadiis ayaa sheegay in wiilkeedu uusan ahayn burcad badeed ee la duufsaday...Continue reading »
Riix Sawirka si aad u daawato waraysigii Axmed Xuseen “They came and bullied the the small scale Somali fishermen, they cut their nets, run their boats and sort of enforce their will…” Ahmed Hussein. CBC News Today program interviews Ahmed Hussen, the national president of the Canadian Somali Congress. Waraysi ku saabsan Sunta lagu shubayo Soomaaliya...Continue reading »
