MINNEAPOLIS — A jury has returned a guilty verdict for a man charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of a Somali man outside Village Market Mall last September. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office reported that after a day of deliberation, the jury Friday found Hassan Abdillahi of Richfield guilty. Sentencing is scheduled July 21. A criminal complaint...Continue reading »
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Wararkii ugu danbeeyay ee Soomaalida ku nool gobolka Minnesoota.
AGE of  AUTISM By Abdulkadir Khalif — As Quresha and I prepared for the short flight to Chicago from Minneapolis for Autism One Conference on the evening of 05/19/2009, I was not sure what to expect and how events would fold out for the next few days. I was mostly quiet worrying about the other members of the Minneapolis Somali parents many of who would join...Continue reading »
Bibi Abdalla graduated from the College of Saint Benedict this spring, in the first group of twelve students in the iLEAD program. (Pioneer Press: Scott Takushi) By Lien Hoang Twin Cities — Frightened and knowing no one, Bibi Abdalla, of St. Paul, entered college with one thought: get in, get her education and get out. But taking part in the Intercultural...Continue reading »
MINNEAPOLIS – Minneapolis police are searching for a suspect who robbed 14 different stores in the Somali mall on Monday night. Businesses surveillance caught the suspect going from store to store, breaking in. Store owners say the suspect took things ranging from cash to laptops. One store owner says almost his entire inventory of cell phones.The alarm in the...Continue reading »
Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS – An activist at a Minneapolis mosque where several Somali men and teenagers worshipped before returning to their war-torn homeland said Tuesday that she tried to block two of them from leaving the U.S. Abia Ali, who is scheduled to testify before a federal grand jury Tuesday, told Minnesota Public Radio that she surmised their plans...Continue reading »
Months before two Somali teenage boys left the Twin Cities for Somalia, one woman says she tried to stop their departures. Abia Ali, a youth volunteer at a Minneapolis mosque where about a dozen young men worshipped before traveling to their homeland, will share her story with a federal grand jury Tuesday afternoon in Minneapolis. by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public...Continue reading »
By LORA PABST, Star Tribune — The family of an Augsburg college student gunned down last fall outside a Minneapolis community center had planned to sit in a courtroom this month, listening to the trial of the teenage suspect. Instead, the family of 20-year-old Ahmednur Ali marched Friday outside of the Minneapolis Police Department, calling for justice and answers...Continue reading »
Relatives, friends and neighbors of a Minneapolis teen killed in Somalia pressed their argument Thursday that a Muslim civil rights group is hampering a federal investigation into the disappearances of dozens of Twin Cities Somali men. At a protest outside the Brian Coyle Community Center in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, Abdirizak Bihi, the uncle of...Continue reading »
Banaan baxa lagag soo horjeed jeedo uruka CAIR oo ah urur isku daya in uu u dagaalamo dadka ay Dolwada Maraykanku ku soo xadgudbaan kana koobaan kooxo sharci yaqaan ah oo Muslimiinah una badan Arab ayaa waxaa mudaharaad ku soo qaday qaad ka mid ah waalidiinta ay caruurtu ka maqan yihiin. Qasatan Abdirisaaq Bixi iyo Cismaan Ahmed oo ah walidiintii dhalay...Continue reading »
 Xaflad si qurux badan loo soo agaasimay ayaa ka dhacday magaalada Minneapolis, Minnesota. Xafladaas ayaa u jeedadeedu ahayd taageero. Hadaba akhristow waxa laga yaabaa in aad isweydiiso waa maxay taageeridu. Hadii aad la socoto Soomaalida websaatyadeeda waxa isbuucii hore ka dhacay Minnesota xaflad lagu soo bandhigay in lagu dhawaaqo urur ka shaqeeya siyaasad.  Haddaba,...Continue reading »
Somali Voices Radio oo waraysi la yeelatay Abdirsaaq Bixi oo ka mida ah waalidiinta Caruurtooda la waayey, Â Maantana la soo sheegay in ladilay wiilkii uu abtiga u ahaa Burhaan Xasan, Abdi Rooble oo ah sawir qaade hatana ka wadan shaqo Xeryaha qaxootiga ee Kenya june 19 keeda waxay ka samaynayaa kaalomo dad kaas wax loogu ururinayo, iyo AbdihakinBR oo war bixin ka siinaya...Continue reading »
Minneapolis —  Waxa ka dhacay magaalada Minneapolis ee Dhulkaasi Maraykanka Shirweynihii Jaaliyada Somalida Ogadeeniya ee waqooyiga Amerika.Shirka oo ay ka soo qeybgaleen masuuliyiinta Jaaliyaadka Wadanka Maraykanka iyo dalka Canada oo ay aad uga dhex muuqdeen dadweynaha reer Meneasota oo aan iyaku u kala hadhin; Aqoonyahanka, Salaadiinta, Hooyooyinka iyo...Continue reading »
Since last summer, dozens of young Somali men have disappeared from the Twin Cities area. They were feared recruited by radical elements in Somalia. The Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center has several classes for young men. About 50 of them are taking the Circle of Peace class. MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) ―  One of the largest Mosques in the area is trying to help young...Continue reading »
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A Somali activist says 1 of the young Somali men who left Minneapolis to return to their homeland last November has been reported killed in Mogadishu. Omar Jamal is executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in Minneapolis. He did not release the name of the man, who was about 18, but said Saturday his group is looking into the case. Groups...Continue reading »
Minnesota:-Waxaa dhammaan Soomaalida Minnesota degan lagu marti gali nayaa in ay ka soo qayb galaan Muxaara daad ka dhici doona Masjiddu Rowda Maalin nimada sabtida Salaadda casar ka dib,Waxaa Muxaadaraad kaan ka qayb qaadanaya Sh.Dr Ahmed Haji Abdirahman iyo Sheikh Abdiqadir Nur Farah Iyo Sheikh Mustafa Abdirahman Ibrahim iyo Waliba Sheikh abdirizaq Hashi Nur iyo Imaamka...Continue reading »
Ururka Horn of Africa Community Development waxay ku howljiraan in ay dhisaan Rugta kaydka Bawaagta iyo Cilmibaarista oo laga furi doono Magaalada Galkacayo waxay qabteen xafladii ugu horaysay ee ay ku raadinayaan lacagtii lagu dhisilahaa Rugtaas cusub waxay u bahan tahay rugtaasi lacag gaaraysa $70,000. waxaa xafladaas nooga qayb galay Mahamed (wiilwaal) wuxuuna...Continue reading »
Iyadoo dagaalo xoogan ay maalmihii ugu danbeeyay ka soconayeen qaybo kamid ah magaalada Muqdisho ee caasimada Soomaaliya ayaa waxaa si wayn uga soconaya magaalada, Barakac baahsan oo dadka rayidka ah ay uga cararayaan dagaaladaasi Hay’ada Oxfom ayaa bayaan ay soo saartay ku sheegtay in dad aad u farabadan ay ka barakecen dagaaladii ugu danbeeyay ee ka dhacay magaalada...Continue reading »
by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio — St. Paul, Minn. — A teenager charged with fatally shooting a Somali-American college student in Minneapolis eight months ago has been released from jail. The student’s family says prosecutors moved to dismiss the case because key witnesses were not willing to testify. Prosecutors told family members of Ahmednur...Continue reading »
