Bartamaha (Ottawa):- The girlfriend of an Ottawa man about to be deported to Somalia because of his criminality says he “doesn’t stand a chance†in a country he hasn’t seen since he was a child. Erin Carruthers, 26, an Ottawa child and youth worker, has been in a relationship with Abadir Ali for more than three years. The Somali-born Ali, 27,...Continue reading »
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The Latest News about Somalis in Canada.
Wararkii ugu danbeeyay ee Soomaalida ku nool wadanka Canada.
Bartamaha (Canada):-Canadian Somali Congress national president interviewed by CBC News on the Al Shabaab terrorist group and the integration efforts of Canadian Somalis Canadian Somali Congress National President interviewed by Nil Koksal of CBC News as part of a television series entitled “Canadian Dream.” The series examines the successes and challenges...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Speech by Ahmed Hussen, National President of the Canadian Somali Congress at the Hope for Dadaab Fundraising Event Somali civilians in Southern and Central Somalia are increasingly caught between the hammer of the Al Shabaab terrorist movement and the anvil of a weak, incompetent and corrupt federal government. I want to begin my remarks by thanking...Continue reading »
SASKATOON — The death of a Somali man who plummeted from the balcony of a downtown Saskatoon apartment building last week remains shrouded in mystery after police released surveillance footage Thursday of five men entering the building shortly before the fall. It’s still uncertain how Ahmed Abdi Mohamud, a 20-year-old who family friends say arrived in...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Members of Toronto’s Somali community say they’re upset with the amount of force used by police to take a suspect into custody last week — a suspect who turned out to be the wrong man. Sharmake Abdi, 26, alleges he was badly roughed up by about eight Toronto police officers on July 22 on Church Street in downtown Toronto. Police...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (NAIROBI):- Somali NOC First Vice President and head of International relations Duran Ahmed Farah, who just returned from a visiting tour to Somali sporting community in Canada, disclosed that Somali NOC and the Somali-born communities in North America agreed to jointly work on the lawless country’s sporting developments. “During my stay in Canada...Continue reading »
MONTREAL — A Somali man removed from a May 30 TransAtlantic flight because he is on a terrorism watch list has been granted parole and will be allowed to join family members in Seattle, his lawyer said yesterday. Abdirahman Ali Gaal, who lived in Toronto in 2008 and sought refugee status in Canada, had been detained since his removal from an Aeromexico flight...Continue reading »
Bartamaha(Nairobi):-At the continent’s largest Islamic conference, the disclaimers in the Journey of Faith program, given out to the thousands of attendees, highlights the difficulty of portraying the modern face of an old religion. Organizers, it says, “are not responsible for materials or opinions expressing views contrary to Canadian and international laws.” ...Continue reading »
In Edmonton, Somali Canadian National Week is a diverse and elaborate event, packed to the brim with a soccer tournament, celebration for high school graduates and guest speakers with advice on how to integrate into the community. Events began to run in cities across the country on Friday, and will continuee until July 1, both Canada Day and Somalia’s Independence...Continue reading »
Abdullahi Hussein is either a star hire worth a six-figure salary, or a statistic stuck in systemic unemployment. The answer depends on where he’s looking for work. Born in Somalia, he received his undergraduate degree there before moving on to a masters degree in food inspection at the University of Reading in Britain. Mr. Hussein came to Canada in the early...Continue reading »
OTTAWA — The Harper government will press Ethiopia’s leader at the G8 summit this month to release a Canadian it believes is unjustly imprisoned there, The Canadian Press has learned. But Ottawa will not make the June 25 visit of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to the G8 summit in Ontario’s cottage country contingent on the release of 41-year-old...Continue reading »
By – Ahmed Hussein —Â Later this month, leaders from Ethiopia and Malawi will be in Toronto as invited guests of the G20. While it is to be expected that the Malawian President would be invited in his capacity as the Chair of the African Union, it is more surprising to see an invitation extended to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia. Mr. Zenawi...Continue reading »
WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg woman accused of stabbing her two young children — one of them an infant — has been charged with attempted murder for the attack, police said Friday. Investigators allege the 35-year-old woman grabbed a knife and stabbed her sons — aged four months and nine years — on Thursday night. It’s believed she was...Continue reading »
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. and TORONTO — The Somali man whose flight was diverted to Montreal this week because he is on the U.S. no-fly list said yesterday the FBI questioned him about possible links to a Canadian member of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has been tracking his movements. In an exclusive interview inside the...Continue reading »
On Saturday, June 5, human rights and community organizations will mobilize to join an emergency Global BDS Day of Action called by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC). In Toronto, join us to protest the fatal attacks by apartheid Israel on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the occupied and besieged Gaza...Continue reading »
Amanda Lindhout plans to devote her life to helping the people of Somalia, though she doubts she will ever return to the war-torn country where she was held against her will for more than a year. The native of Sylvan Lake, Alta., who survived a 15-month captivity after being kidnapped nearly two years ago, recently announced that she planned to raise money to send...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Canada) — Canadian Somali Congress President interviewed by Nil Koksal of CBC News as part of a television series entitled “Canadian Dream.” The series examines the successes and challenges that face different communities in Canada. This particular segment centered on the successes and challenges of the Canadian Somali community....Continue reading »
The Canadian International Peace Project and the Canadian Somali Congress represented by Mark Persaud and Ahmed Hussen as well as Professor Hussein Warsame of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary were invited by Amanda Lindhout to launch the Somali Women’s Scholarship Program in Red Deer, Alberta on Sunday, May 16th, 2010. The Canadian...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Alberta):-Somali-Canadian families in Toronto say they will not give up until police and government officials in Alberta take steps to solve the violent deaths of 30 young men from their community that have occurred since 2005. The men from Toronto’s Somali community all died in Alberta after moving west for jobs in the lucrative oil and gas industry. The...Continue reading »
