A Somali woman with children in London schools has won a test case to claim benefits even if she is “a burden on the social assistance system”.
Nimco Hassan Ibrahim took her case to the European Court of Justice when she was turned down for housing benefit by Harrow Council in north-west London.
The judges ruled that a parent with children “in education in the host member state h...
Countries bordering Somalia are planning to coordinate a major assault against positions held by al- Shabaab militia in Somalia, using ethnic Somali military officers being trained in their respective boundaries.
Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti who share the border with Somalia are all training military personnel on behalf of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia, which though boxed-in...
Dowadda Somaliya ayaa si diiran usoo dhaweysay go`aankii shalay ey gaareen Golaha Amaanka ee Qaramada Midoobay kaasoo ey cunaqabateyn ku saartay dalka Eritrea oo ey ku eedeeyeen in ey hurineyso colaada raagtay ee Somaliya ka taagan.
Wasiiru dowlaha arrimaha dibada Somaliya Cali Jaamac Jengili oo isagoo ku sugan dalka Sucuudiga wareysi dhiibay ayaa soo dhaweeyay go`aanka Golaha Amaanka ee ku aadan ...
MOGADISHU — Gunmen shot dead a Somali security officer working for the United Nations food programme (WFP) in the western town of Beledweyn on Tuesday, officials said.
Ali Farah Amey was head of security at the UN compound in Beledweyn, a flashpoint town which lies near the Ethiopian border, some 300 kilometres (180 miles) north of Mogadishu.
“They shot him several times in the head and sh...
Dowlada Jabuuti ayaa daboolka ka qaaday in kooxda mayalka adag ee al-shabaab ee ka dhanka dowlada Somaliya ay isbadal ku sameeysay hogaanka kooxda , hogaamiyaal cusub oo alqaacida ka tirsan ay qabtay talada al-shabaab.
Wasirka arimaha dibada dalka Jabuuti Maxamuud Cali Yuusuf oo u waramayay wargeyska al-sharqul awsat ayuu tibaaxay in hogaanka kooxda al-shabab uu haatan qabtay nin u dhashay dalka ...
Protesters carry banners which reads’ Down with those who carried the killings’ in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009 as they chant slogans against the bomb attack in Mogadishu’s Shamo hotel the previous Thursday, in which graduating medical students,doctors, and government ministers died. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
MOGADISHU, Somalia
— Somalia’s government is wa...
He would not detail where troops would be deployed, but said many would train Afghan police and the new arrivals would include more badly needed helicopters.
The senior commander in Afghanistan said troops were there for a long term commitment, despite Mr Obama saying he would begin to reduce the reinforcements in 18 months.
He said he also believed the vast majority of Taliban were not hard line ...
Shots were fired at the vehicle carrying kidnapped Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout during her release this week in Somalia, CBC News has learned.
It was “less than a dozen shots — including warning shots — approaching a checkpoint,” a source close to the negotiations told CBC News. “It was unclear as it was night, but it was directed at their direction.”
CBC News ha...
NAIROBI, Kenya — The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia’s capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm. Then she saw her 8-year-old: The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his waist.
Two months later, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud’s nose is a small hole. His mouth is always open because he has no upper lip and his right eye is go...
PHILADELPHIA — The company that owns the Maersk Alabama, a freighter targeted by pirates twice in seven months, did not heed a request to rename, repaint or reroute the ship after the first attack off the coast of Africa in the spring, former crew members say.
Ex-crewmen John Cronan and Shane Murphy said in separate interviews Wednesday that they feared and anticipated another attack after ...
Several Somali-Canadian families are asking what happened to their sons after a group of young men apparently disappeared from Toronto two weeks ago.
They left town without notice, and have not contacted home since. “They didn’t even tell their parents,” said Omar Kireh, administrator of the Abu Huraira Centre, the Toronto mosque where the men occasionally worshipped.
A circle o...
Ethiopia’s Somali-speaking communities, allegedly marginalized by Ethiopian government in Addis Ababa have begun another bout of rebellion against the government. So far seven towns have been captured as the rebels demand secession. Some Ethiopians have, however, dismissed claims made by the rebels, as having captured several towns, as preposterous propaganda. Some also insist that having been s...
Edmonton’s Somali community is bracing for more tears and heartache after the seventh shooting death of a young man from their homeland in 16 months.
The body of 21-year-old Abdulaziz Osman Isse was found Thursday behind a dumpster at a synagogue in an upscale west-end neighbourhood.
And like several of the previous victims, Isse had a history with police in Ontario.
Edmonton police said yes...
NEW YORK – Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.
In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $...
MINNEAPOLIS – As long suspected, it’s is not just young men Minnesota’s been sending back to Somalia, to die in civil war, it is apparently money as well.
Dutch authorities arrested a 43-year-old Minneapolis man, who they’re not identifying. He is wanted by U.S. authorities for bankrolling the purchase of arms for Al Shabab, the Al Qaeda linked Islamic group, which now controls...
HARGEISA, 10 November 2009 (IRIN) – Days after Saudi Arabia lifted a nine-year ban on livestock imports from Somalia, the market in Hargeisa, Somaliland, has seen a 10-fold increase in sales, according to local traders.
“One thousand five hundred sheep used to be sold in the market before the recent announcement… compared to more than 16,000 animals in the market daily in the las...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Gunmen kidnapped two Kenyans and two Somalis working for a printing company in an area of Mogadishu controlled by Islamist insurgents, witnesses said.
Ten masked men with automatic weapons went to Bakara Market — controlled by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group — late on Sunday and took their captives to an undisclosed location. They later release...
Ten masked men with automatic weapons went to Bakara Market — controlled by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group — late on Sunday and took their captives to an undisclosed location. They later released the Somalis.
While kidnappings are common in Somalia, foreigners and aid workers are usuallu the targets.
“They entered the Hamar Adde printing centre, went away with R...
Shalay ayey aheyd markii uu u soo gaba gaboobmay tababar askart ka tirsan Ahlu Sunnah Wal-jamaaca, gaar ahaan kuwa degmada Caabudwaaq oo ay ku qaadanayeen xerada ( Balli Soomaali ) ee bariga magaaladaasi ayaa maanta ciidamadaasi waxaa xarunta maamulka ee degmada caabudwaaq loogu qeybiyay dareys u gooni ah iyaga oo ciidameed.
Dhoole tuskan oo ka dhacay gudaha magaalada Caabudwaa ayaa waxaa hadalo k...
SOMALI pirates stepped up their threats yesterday against a British couple kidnapped on their yacht 16 days ago, saying they would be “punished” unless the commanders of a German warship allowed seven fellow pirates go free.
Paul and Rachel Chandler, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, are being held in a village outside Harardhere, 180 miles north of Mogadishu, the Somali capital, pirate sources said...
Somalis living in northern Kenya have accused the government in Nairobi of secretly recruiting and training youths from the region as soldiers to go to fight for the transitional Somali government against al-Shabaab fighters.
Local leaders have said that in the last three weeks alone, at least 200 Kenyans of Somali origin have been recruited in the town of Garissa.
The recruitment drive has also ...
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) – The death toll left by an army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage at a U.S. military base in Texas rose to 13 on Friday, U.S. media reported.
Suspected gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire with two handguns at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, in one of the worst killing sprees ever reported on a U.S. military base, army officials said. [ID:nN0...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali pirates seized a Greek-owned vessel full of wheat in the Indian Ocean on Thursday and threatened to hand three Spanish captives to the families of two suspected gunmen being held in Spain.
The Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier MV Delvina was hijacked with seven Ukrainians and 14 Filipinos on board, the EU anti-piracy naval force said.
Pirates have plundered t...
Security experts in the Maghreb are alarmed by a recent upswing in violence in Somalia. With a rise in radicalism threatening the rights of women and religious minorities in that country, Maghreb civil society groups are taking steps to stop extremist ideologies from surging in their direction.
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi described the threat of Somali instability as “critical” at the...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali courtship was different in Hassan Aden’s day. When he was a teenager, you gave the girl’s parents 11 camels and an AK-47 assault rifle as bride price and then waited respectfully.
Now, the 55-year-old said, a mobile phone service that seems to be the only thing working in the failed Horn of Africa state is helping drive a rise in elopements, pregnanci...
Guddoomiyaha Xisbiga Mucaaradka MRD ee dalka Jabuuti Mudane Daahir Axmed Faarax. Waxaa wareystay Cabdulqaadir Guled oo ka trisan bahda Hiiraan Online
...
Rival pirates and militia groups have fought for control over a British couple held hostage for more than a week, an Islamic militia commander and a local elder said. The couple were not injured in the fighting.
Meanwhile, an American-flagged cargo vessel came under gunfire from suspected Somali pirates but managed to escape, a US Navy spokesman said.
Elders sent local fighters to thwart an atte...
OTTAWA — Islamic radicalization of Canada’s Somali community is becoming a national security concern, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said Friday.
The potential of Somali-Canadians adopting the extremist ideology of the Islamist insurgency ravaging the failed state is on an evolving list of national security issues and threats Elliott outlined in a sobering speech to an Ottawa confere...
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — Two people were killed and four injured when a European naval ship opened fire on their vessel off the coast of the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland, said Hareed Isse Omar, the district commissioner of the Alula region.
Norway’s HNOMS Fridjof Nansen returned fire after it was shot at by people on a dhow it was approaching early yesterday, the European Union Na...
Mogadishu, Somalia -
At least 36 people have been killed and scores wounded in three days of fighting in towns across chaotic Somalia, a local human rights group said Sunday.
Government troops fought rebels in a central town, the two main insurgent forces battled in the south, and police from the autonomous northern Puntland region clashed with soldiers on their border.
In the breakaway northern e...
British couple moved further inland
* Pirates in dispute over Britons (Recasts with couple moved inland, quotes)
By Abdi Guled and Abdi Sheikh
MOGADISHU, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Somali pirates said on Saturday that a British couple captured in the Indian Ocean more than a week ago had been moved deeper into central Somalia after a row between rival pirate gangs.
Gunmen seized Paul and Rachel Chan...
Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants are tightening their grip on areas of the country they already control, imposing new rules and punishing people they say are violating their radical brand of Islamic law. Some observers believe until a more powerful group emerges to bring law and order to the country, ordinary Somalis are not likely to challenge al-Shabab’s violence-driven ...
One of the rhetorical questions frequently tossed out in the debate over Afghanistan concerns the brewing trouble in Somalia and Yemen, both of which are known to host al-Qaida cadres and training camps. If it’s necessary to pacify Afghanistan to protect U.S. security, goes the taunt, must we also intervene in Somalia and Yemen?
The presumed answer is: “Of course not — and theref...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali courtship was different in Hassan Aden’s day. When he was a teenager, you gave the girl’s parents 11 camels and an AK-47 assault rifle as bride price and then waited respectfully.
Now, the 55-year-old said, a mobile phone service that seems to be the only thing working in the failed Horn of Africa state is helping drive a rise in elopements, pregnanci...
A week ago, a senior commander of the Somali insurgency al-Shabaab (aka Harakat Shabaab al-Mujahidin) threatened terror attacks in the capital cities of countries supporting the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) including Kampala, Bujumbura and Bamako.
“We shall make their people cry. We’ll attack Bujumbura and Kampala,” Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein was reported to have said. The warni...
MANILA, Philippines—The head of the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) has pledged that his agency will help Somalia repress piracy off its coast and in the Gulf of Aden, including through assisting in the creation of a national coast guard, the UN office here said in a statement.
IMO Secretary General Efthimios Mitropoulos discussed the issue with the Prime Minister of So...
With clear, straight answers, a St. Anthony man admitted to a federal judge Monday that he lied to a grand jury when he denied knowing men who had returned to Somalia to fight Ethiopian troops who were occupying their homeland.
Adarus Abdulle Ali, 25, said he was scared when he was called to testify before the grand jury in Minneapolis, and that’s why he didn’t tell the truth — that ...
#gallery-1 {
margin: auto;
}
#gallery-1 .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 33%; }
#gallery-1 img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
Somali pirates who kidnapped a British couple last month were preparing to defend their...
