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Lewiston School Committee member Zam Zam Mohamud, left, speaks with committee Chairman Jim Handy and Ward 1 representative Linda Scott during a School Committee meeting Tuesday. Buy a print by Bonnie Washuk, Staff Writer Friday, May 17, 2013 LEWISTON, Maine — Zam Zam Mohamud, described as popular and well-regarded in the community by a Bates [...]
Theresa May has ramped up the use of deprivation of citizenship powers. (Photo: Home Office via Flickr Creative Commons) The Home Secretary has stripped at least two additional individuals of their British citizenship in recent months, the Bureau has learned. In February, an investigation by the Bureau and published with the Independent revealed that Theresa [...]
Abdullahi Wehliye’s shop in Philippi township in Cape Town has been robbed seven times since 2010. During one occasion in 2012, his brother was shot and killed © Kristy Siegfried/IRIN PHILIPPI (IRIN) – This week marks five years since tensions between foreigners and South Africans living in impoverished communities across the country erupted in xenophobic [...]
Jessica Buchanan, a U.S. woman who was held hostage in Somalia for several months, recently described her experience being rescued by Navy SEAL Team Six members. Buchanan was working as an aid worker in war-torn Somalia when she was kidnapped in 2011. She recounted the incident in her book “Impossible Odds.” After being stationed in [...]
Female circumcision is a crime but girls are still sent abroad to be brutalised. Zarah Hassan tells Rosamund Urwin why breaking the UK African community’s silent assent is the answer Freedom fighter: campaigner Zarah Hassan uses her own experience of FGM to raise awareness in the Somali community. Zarah Hassan seems to have blocked out [...]
An upsurge of gang rapes has hit the breakaway region of Somaliland – a normally peaceful enclave considered by many to be a sanctuary from Somalia’s decades of violence. Knife-wielding young men follow women along the dusty streets of Hargeisa, the capital of the region, dragging them inside buildings to rape and rob them. Children [...]
Reuters/Reuters – Somalia’s Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (L) and Defence Minister Abdihakim Haji Fiqi give a news conference in the capital Mogadishu February 23, 2011. REUTERS/Omar Faruk Thursday, May 09, 2013 Somalia’s armed forces have not received “a single bullet” despite the partial lifting of a United Nations arms embargo because the East African [...]
The Somalia Conference took place at Lancaster House on 7 May 2013, co-hosted by the UK and Somalia, and attended by fifty-four friends and partners of Somalia. We met at a pivotal moment for Somalia. Last year Somalia’s eight-year transition ended and Somalia chose a new, more legitimate Parliament, President and Government. Security is improving, [...]
British Prime Minister David Cameron expressed solidarity with Somalia as he opened an international conference Tuesday in London focused on coordinating efforts to rebuild the country after decades of conflict. Mr. Cameron, whose country is co-hosting the conference with the Somali government, says “hope is alive in Somalia.” Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says his [...]
The dried fruits, packed into hundreds of sacks, are being offloaded from trucks and hoisted by crane on to a cargo vessel for export. The ship will eventually make its way to the Arab Gulf states. “The pay is poor, but at least there’s more work now,” says a porter by the name of Alasow, [...]
