At pains to leave South Africa
QUDSIYA KARRIM AND PERCY MABANDU (Mail & Guardian) —Somali refugees have told the Mail & Guardian that South Africa’s high commissioner to Botswana, Dikgang Moopeloa, stood by and watched as More...
Extraordinary asylum stories …
The Daily Telegraph may see fit to publish racist comments about persons of Somali heritage. However, its fellow News Limited paper The Australian has published a more nuanced feature piece on Melbournites of Somali More...
Somalia’s Godfathers: Ransom-Rich Pirates
Ilka Ase Mohamed says he lost the tall, bright-eyed love of his life to a Somali pirate who paid a $50,000 cash dowry to her mother. (Miguel Juarez - For The Washington Post) By Stephanie McCrummen Washington More...
Somali chaos spills from land to sea
Last year Somali pirates were responsible for more than 100 attacks on shipping and although attempts are being made to tackle the problem, finding a solution is not straightforward reports Karen Allen in Kenya. More...
Peace Mapping Puntland (Clan Reconciliation)
Water Reservoir was the cause of a tribal war between two clans in central Somalia (Omar Mohamoud and Bah Hararsame), Its the story of the reconciliation process between the tribes and ending the conflict. This More...
SOMALIA: Dial 777 for an ambulance
NAIROBI, 15 April 2009 (IRIN) – Rufai Mohamed Salad risks life and limb to provide daily ambulance services in war-torn Mogadishu, a city where even the largest hospital does not have an ambulance. Salad and More...
Gravity Of Hope waa urur dhalinyaro ah oo raba in ay cawiyaan Dadkooda iyo Dalkooda
Qaar ka mikda dhalinyarada Ururuka Gravity Of Hope oo ah urur dhalinyaro reer Minnesota ah Abaabuleen waxay ugu tala galeen in ya ku caawiyaan dadka ku dhiban Dalkii Hooyo. More...
Democrat wins round in Minnesota U.S. Senate race
MINNEAPOLIS, April 13 (Reuters) – A Minnesota court panel ruled on Monday that Democrat Al Franken beat Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in the long-fought contest for a U.S. Senate seat and said the comic More...
MASAAJIDKA IYO XARUN DHAQAMEEDKA DAR AL-HIJRAH AYAA AL BAABADA U FURAY…
Masaajidka iyo Xarun dhaqameedka Dar Al-Hijrah ayaa al baabada u furay kuna soo dhaweeyay dhamaan dadka degan kuna dhaqan labadda magaalo ee mataanaha ah (Minneapolis/St.Paul) iyo nawaaxigooda ee Gobolka Minnesota. More...
Our Daughter was stoned to death (Asho’s Story)
Asho, 13 years old, was kidnapped raped and stoned to death in Kismayo SVT (Sweden) reporter Christina Johannesson have met Ashos family that tells her story. PLAY VIDEO More...
The Somali autism puzzle ‘The western disease’ has hit immigrants’ kids hard and experts don’t know why
Mohamed Ali, 11 plays at a McDonald's indoor playground in Toronto. (Yvonne Berg for The Globe and Mail) MARINA JIMÉNEZ –  Globe and Mail Idar Hassan named her third child Ali, after a beloved More...
Reflections: Somali students share memoirs from Kenya to Lewiston
Ayan Siyat, left, and Sadia Dubat, right, talk on the bus before leaving for Portland from bates College in Lewiston on Sunday. The two Edward Little High School juniors have published stories in the book "They More...
