Category Archives: Latest Somali News

KAMSUMA, Somalia, May 5 (UPI) — Islamic radicals destroyed 50-year-old graves Tuesday in the southern Somali village of Kamsuma. Many residents of the village watched as an unknown number graves were crushed, Shabelle Media Network reported. The Islamic administration in Kismayu, a port town 90 kilometers (56 miles) west of Kamsuma, said the graves’ structure...Continue reading »

By AMY FORLITI , Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS – Attorneys for a Minneapolis man held in solitary confinement on terror charges for more than five years are asking he be released while he awaits trial, saying Mohammed Warsame’s pretrial incarceration has gone on so long it has become punitive. After U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim said he would...Continue reading »

Somalia — Somaliland police detained a famous Somali composer Jim Sheik Mumin and another composer after Jimmi has shot and killed a young boy in Hargeise, the de facto capital city of the breakaway republic of Somaliland. Safi Du’ale Ali, a well-known Somali singer in Hargeisa told Shabelle radio that the arrest of Jim Sheik Mumin and his colleague Aden came...Continue reading »

by Elizabeth Stawicki, Minnesota Public Radio — St. Paul, Minn. — Defense attorneys will ask a federal judge in a terrorism case being heard in Minneapolis today to allow them to talk to high-ranking al-Qaeda members held in U.S. custody. The defendant, Mohamed Warsame, is a Canadian citizen of Somali descent who lived in Minneapolis in 2002. The federal...Continue reading »

LONDON (CNN) — The latest video from Somalia’s al Qaeda-backed Al-Shabaab wing is as slickly produced as a reality TV show but with a startling message — complete with a hip-hop jihad vibe.Mortar by mortar, shell by shell, only going to stop when I send them to hell,” the unidentified voice raps on the video, which runs at least 18 minutes. The...Continue reading »

Recent pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden finally have turned the world’s attention on Somalia after years of the war-ravaged country being ignored, East African experts say. Piracy is the unfortunate, albeit headline-grabbing, symptom of a much larger concern of a nation rocked by poverty and governmental instability. While there are some short-term...Continue reading »

The Associated Press — President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday called for the possible creation of an international piracy court. The Russian destroyer Admiral Panteleyev captured a vessel with 29 suspected Somali pirates last week off the coast of Africa, and the Navy is debating what to do with them. Medvedev told Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to explore ways to hold...Continue reading »

Mogadishu — Some Somali Lawmakers and government ministers denounced Monday the decision of the information minister of the Somali government Farhan Ali Mohamoud who disbanded the Council of Somali journalists. Saynab Mohamed Amir, one of the Somali parliamentarians said that the minister hastened to disband the council with out consulting to the parliament. Ali...Continue reading »

Dispatch Online — DESPITE escaping hardships in war-torn Somalia to seek refuge in South Africa, Somalis are still faced with the challenge of finding proper education for their children. Self-employed Mohamed Abdul, a father of two boys and two girls, is one of the refugees forced to send the children to private schools even though they cannot afford the fees. ...Continue reading »

CTV.ca News Staff — Canada is extending the anti-piracy mission of HMCS Winnipeg off the coast of Somalia, Defence Minister Peter MacKay told CTV’s Question Period Sunday. MacKay said the federal government agreed to a NATO request for the frigate to continue operations as part of an allied effort to deter pirates who have seized dozens of vessels off the Horn...Continue reading »

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya–South Korean snipers hovering in a helicopter Monday chased away pirates pursuing a North Korean freighter, while a Russian warship freed eight Iranian citizens held hostage for more than three months. The two dramatic rescues in the Gulf of Aden come as piracy grips the lawless coast off Somalia. South Korea’s joint chiefs...Continue reading »

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Eritrea said Monday it was tired of accusations that it sends weapons to al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants fighting Somalia’s government. In an accusation backed by some security experts and diplomats, Somalia’s government said again this week that Asmara continues to support al Shabaab rebels through planeloads of AK-47s, rocket-propelled...Continue reading »

Florent Lemacon was hit by a bullet during the assault but it had remained unclear who had fired the shot PARIS (AFP) — A French yachtsman taken hostage by Somali pirates was shot and killed by French special forces during a rescue operation last month and not by his captors, Europe 1 radio reported Monday. French troops stormed the Tanit sailing yacht on April...Continue reading »

Alshabaab ayaa hawl gal ay ka sameeyeen xaafad ku taala magaalada Baydhabo oo lagu magacaaabo xaafada Horseed ayaa waxey ka soo qabteen goob lagu sameynayey Khamriga la kariyo Ciidamda Alshabaab ee halwgalka sameynayey ayaa waxey ay xoojiyeen amaanka goobta lagu arkey Khamriga, iyagoo ay mudooyinkii danbe ay aa u raadinayeen gobahaasi oo kale. Madaxa Amaanka Maamulka xarakada...Continue reading »

Asmara — Eritrean information minister Ali Abdu has said in an interview with the BBC on Monday that his government does not recognize the transitional government of Somalia denying accusations that it deployed illegitimate weapon into Somalia. Mr. Ali Abdu said that they don not recognize any government in Somalia replying accusations suggested to Eritrean government...Continue reading »

France intercepted 11 suspected Somali pirates on Sunday after they mistook a French naval ship for a commercial vessel and started heading toward it in preparation for an attack, a Defense Ministry spokesman said. Heavily-armed Somali pirates have stepped up their attacks on vessels in Indian Ocean shipping lanes and the Gulf of Aden, capturing dozens of vessels, kidnapping...Continue reading »

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Photo/FILE By  ARGAW ASHINE, SUNDAY NATION Correspondent in Addis Ababa  — Ethiopian security forces have conducted a major operation in the last couple of days to arrest people alleged to have links with an attempted coup last week. The operation in various parts of the country, including army bases, reportedly netted...Continue reading »

By JASMINE FRANKLIN, SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA — Concerned parents and members of Edmonton’s Somali community gathered yesterday to create a plan for protecting their children in light of another slaying. “The lack of knowledge on both parents and children’s parts is what is steering our youth in the wrong direction,” said Mohamednur Madowe, executive...Continue reading »

Somalia — Botswana government has rejected the Somali refugees who left from South Africa to enter its country and returned back to South Africa, Shabelle’s Ahad reported from Cape Town. Reports from South Africa say that the Somali refugees were about 100 and member of other Somali refugees who were in the refugee comps of South Africa but left from there...Continue reading »

MOGADISHU, May 3 (Reuters) – Somalia’s hard-line opposition leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said on Sunday he would not meet the Horn of Africa nation’s president, and vowed to continue fighting the government. President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed had said he would welcome negotiations with Aweys, his former partner in the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which...Continue reading »