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Brian Wiley, left, assistant professor at the University of Illinois, and photographer Mohamud Mumin, right, chat during Community Day event at the Weisman Art Museum. (Photo by Ibrahim Hirsi) By Ibrahim Hirsi, TC Daily Planet Wednesday, June 19, 2013 “The Youth/Dhalinyarada” project, which consists of portraits and a short video narration of both the success and challenging [...]
Four men including a police officer have been taken to hospital after being stabbed in a mosque in Birmingham. The police constable was responding to reports that three men had been stabbed inside the mosque in the Ward End area of the city when he was attacked. The four are being treated in hospital for [...]
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – Two men and two women were shot dead at the Cherokee Place Business Incubator in St. Louis Thursday afternoon. Police say that the shooting is part of a murder-suicide. Police say the shooting was targeted at a home healthcare business in the building on the 2700 block of Cherokee Street. [...]
A 35-year-old Somali fisherman, wrongly accused by the French government of being a pirate, has spent five lonely years in Paris – mostly behind bars – unable to see his son or wife and is now fighting for compensation. For many people in Africa, the idea of visiting the French capital is an unattainable dream [...]
Somali people were Sunni Muslims who were devoid of any kind of extremism originally, but from 1980s radicalization reared its head in Somalia. After the ouster of the former Regime in 90s the country slipped into anarchy and lawlessness that paved the way for the coming of foreign jihadists in Somalia. Background The initiators of [...]
Silatech has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Dahabshiil, the largest international payments firm in Africa, and the American Refugee Committee (ARC), an international NGO fighting poverty and unemployment, to promote Somali youth enterprise development and provide employment solutions in the Somali territories In keeping with its mission to create jobs and expand economic opportunities [...]
PHOTO | PPS First Lady Margaret Kenyatta plants a tree at Sagana State Lodge, Nyeri, on June 5, 2013 as her Somali counterpart Qamar Ali Omar watches. President Kenyatta and his Somali counterpart Hassan Mohamud held talks at the venue. NATION MEDIA GROUP Kenya and the Somali governments have set up a taskforce to work [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Torture victim Abukar Hassan Ahmed was living in London when he decided several years ago to search again for the man he says crippled him during interrogations in Somalia in the 1980s. It took just a half-hour Internet search in 2005 to locate the former government official then living in Ohio. Ahmed [...]
The Belgian tactician has hinted at signing two trialists – Michael Kamau formerly of English side Brentford and Sadik Mohammed (Somalia) – in June transfer window AFC Leopards’ coach Luc Eymael says he has been impressed by two of the trialists, who have been training with the club in the last one week. Michael Kamau, [...]
Concern has been raised over the ease with which a Londoner killed in a drone attack in Somalia was able to attend militant Islamist camps in the country. Bilal Berjawi, from St John’s Wood, was reportedly operating at a senior level within the Islamist group Al Shabab until he was killed. BBC London has now [...]
