Darsi Mohamed, 13, center, tutors Ashalul Aden, 7, left, and Rukia Aden, 6, as they read a book in a classroom at the Somali Community Associationof Ohio, 3422 Cleveland Ave. (Columbus Dispatch) Past estimates of Franklin County’s Somali population have ranged from 30,000 to 80,000. But a new report says that it’s more like 15,000. An accurate number helps...Continue reading »
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Bartamaha Tv ayaa wuxu booqday xarunta Somali Community Association ee Ohio oo ku taala wadada Cleveland Ave, halkaas oo aan kula kulanay Macallimiinta u gargaarta dhallinta iyo waayeelka Soomaaliyeed ee maalin walba u soo doonta caawin iyo wxbarasho intaba. SCAO waxaa hogaamiye u ah Xasan Cumar oo isla markaasna ah aasaasaha xaruntan. Xassan wuxuu u sheegay Bartamaha...Continue reading »
(Toronto Star) Robyn Doolittle Staff Reporter — A Riverdale man has been charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of his 27-year-old sister. Police allege that just before noon yesterday, Abdirasak Hassan, 24, attacked his sister, Jamila, stabbing her many times in the chest. She was left to die in the bathtub. He then reportedly turned the knife on himself...Continue reading »
By HENRY OWUOR and DOMINIC WABALA — Kenya has been sucked into the Somali conflict after a key radical on the US terror watch-list used a Nairobi-based airline to fly to Mogadishu from Eritrea. The Somali government has written a protest note to Nairobi after Sheikh Dahir Aweys flew on a plane owned by Capital Airlines, which is based at Wilson Airport. Sheikh...Continue reading »
Zuhur Ahmed, radio host of "Somali Community Link" on KFAI, works the controls during a show on the missing Somali-American men. Her guests include Taneeza Islam from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, writer/community-clinic case manager Ahmed Yusuf, and Special Agent in Charge Ralph Boelter of the Minneapolis FBI office. (MPR Photo/Laura Yuen) by Laura...Continue reading »
DAVID MCDOUGALL From Monday’s Globe and Mail —NAIROBI — A Somali journalist kidnapped alongside Canadian freelancer Amanda Lindhout last August says he communicated with her daily through sign language during his captivity and she was in good health when he last saw her before his release earlier this year. Abdifatah Mohammed Elmi, who was taken near...Continue reading »
Photo by - Todd Feeback - Elamin Suraj and family, including 2-year-old daughter Muzan, arrived in Kansas City from Sudan and were taken to live in an apartment with problems including a damp, moldy basement. Jewish Vocational Service is working to move them. In their first month of life in Kansas City, Sudanese refugees Elamin Suraj, Wafa Kut and their three young...Continue reading »
Event Date: May 20, 2009 Event Type: NPC Newsmaker Time: 10:00 AM Sponsored by: Newsmakers Committee Event Location: Broadcast Center Studio A Details: Ambassador ROBERT OAKLEY, Former two-time U.S. Special Envoy to Somali and Mr. OMAR JAMAL, Executive Director, Somali Justice Advocacy Center, will discuss THE TARGETING OF YOUNG SOMALI IMMIGRANTS IN THE U.S. BY TERRORIST...Continue reading »
Minneapoli, MN Shir lagu qabtay magaalada Minneapolis, MN oo loogu magac daray Codadka Somalida Minnesota, Shirkan waxaa soo qabanqaabiyey ururada dhalinyarada ee ka jira Minnesota muhiimada shirkani waxay ahyd in ay Somalidu meel uga soo wada jeedsata dhibta ay saxafada goblku ku hayso Somalida. Sidaan ognahayba waayadan dabe waxaa il xun lagu fiirinayey bulshada Soomaaliyeed...Continue reading »
by Kevin Hervert LEXINGTON – There is a new Somali Community Service Center offering assistance to refugees who have moved to Lexington. The center is located in the Plum Creek Mall at 513 N. Grant St., Suite 14, in Lexington, and offers English lessons, a computer laboratory, and youth programs to Somalis who have arrived in Lexington. Naji Abdi, 24, is the director...Continue reading »
By TAMAS VIRAG, Edmonton SUN MEDIA — Cops say exaggerated reports of an Edmonton woman being attacked – circulating in the city via e-mail, and warning residents of a rash of violent attacks against women on the north side – is more fiction than fact. The urban legend started as an e-mail that warns of Somali gang members who have savagely beaten a handful...Continue reading »
Several hundred people went to the Minneapolis Convention Center on Saturday hoping to dispel myths about the community. By JANET MOORE, Star Tribune— Several hundred people, mostly of Somali descent, gathered at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Saturday in a show of solidarity for a community that is often misunderstood by many Minnesotans. The town meeting...Continue reading »
OTTAWA — Police are searching for witnesses who could help them identify the man responsible for a fatal shooting early Thursday in a ByWard Market club. Mohamed Jama Ali, 26, a Somalian refugee and gang member who was known to police and went by the nickname Casper, was shot in the stomach in Bar 56 after a fight broke out during the club’s weekly Wednesday...Continue reading »
by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul, Minn. — One of the organizers is Augsburg College student Hindia Ali. She said she wants to help demystify her community. “The past six months, the Somali community has been getting a bad representation in the media here,” Ali said. “We just want to shed light on the positive side...Continue reading »
by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio — It’s been five months since the spiritual leader of Minnesota’s largest mosque learned he was on the U.S. government’s terrorism watch list. Since then, Sheikh Abdirahman Ahmad been a reluctant newsmaker. He let his lawyer do the talking at the onset of a media storm surrounding his Minneapolis mosque. A...Continue reading »
 By JENNA ROSS, Star Tribune — Augsburg has long reached out to the immigrants in its midst, and, as Somali children reach college age, they’re enrolling close to home. Not so long ago, Fadli Mohamed would not have fit the mold of typical Augsburg College students: She’s no white Lutheran kid from the suburbs. But change has come rapidly...Continue reading »
MINNEAPOLIS — Attorneys for a man held in solitary confinement on terror charges for more than five years asked Tuesday that he be released while he awaits trial, saying his pretrial incarceration has gone on so long it has become punitive. After U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim said he would take the request under advisement, Mohammed Warsame stood up in...Continue reading »
His remains lie a few hundred yards from a bustling highway, in a section of the Burnsville cemetery reserved for Muslims called the Garden of Eden. There is no marker. Only dirt and small rocks cover the final resting place of Shirwa Ahmed, who lived most of his life almost as anonymously. But the manner of the 26-year-old Minneapolis man’s death has put him at...Continue reading »
