THE Somali national who shot dead his cook on Thursday last week has appeared in the Ndola magistrate’s court. And there was heavy security at the courts yesterday when the accused was brought in. Omar Mohammed Hashi, 30, of flat number 1 Catchpole flats, Kopa Road in Northrise appeared before magistrate’s Ben Akende for reading of the charge around 08:20 hours yesterday. He is charged with one count of murder contrary to section 200 of the laws of Zambia. Particulars of [...]

A London chef has returned to Mogadishu to make a stand against al-Qa’eda   A few days before I met Ahmed Jama in Mogadishu, three Islamist gunmen from Al Shabaab — al-Qa’eda’s Somali branch — burst into his new restaurant wearing suicide bomb jackets. They sprayed the place with bullets and then detonated themselves. One bomber set himself off in the dining room itself, killing 20 of Ahmed’s customers. Standing in that room, watching Ahmed’s workmen clean up, I realised [...]

A three-day production exploring Cardiff’s Somali community that will be live-streamed online launches National Theatre Wales’s third season.   De Gabay is a three-day exploration of the Butetown area of Cardiff – a part of the city renowned for its diversity and rich history. The site-specific work runs for three days and will be streamed online, moving from private living rooms to the boulevards of Butetown in a part of the city formerly known as Tiger Bay. Audiences around the [...]

Allaha u Naxariistee waxaa Maanta Magaalada Muqdisho ku geeriyooday Ganacsade Xiirey Qaasim Wehliye oo si aad ah looga yaqiinay dalka Soomaaliya. Marxuum Xiirey Qaasim waxa uu ku dhashay Magaalada Muqdisho Sanadka markii uu ahaa 1929-kii Sanadkii 1956 Ganacsade Xiirey Qaasim Wehliye waxa uu ka qalin jibiyay Jaamacda Geneva kana bartay Siyaasadda iyo Maamulka (political & Public Adminstration). Isla sanadkii 1956 waxa uu dalka Mareykanka u tagay takhasus jaamacadeed kaas oo ahaa warshadeynta  Wadamada soo koraya. Sanadkii 1957 waxa uu kusoo [...]

Inaalilaahi wa inaa ileyhi Raajicuu,waxaa xili dhow magaalada Kampala ee dalka Uganda ku geeriyooday Iimaamka Masjidka ugu weyn ee Soomaalidu ku leedahay magaalada Kampala Shiikh C/wali C/llaahi oo si weyn looga yaqaan guud ahaan dalka Uganda. Shiikha ayaa waxaa uu wadnuhu istaagay xili uu watay gaari uu isagu lahaa waxaana goobta ay nafta uga baxday ka qaaday qaar ka mid ah jameecada masjidka oo gaarila la saarneyd. Shiikha ayaa waxaa lagu wadaa in lagu aaso Qabuuraha Muslimiinta ee magaalada Kampala [...]

Akhristeyaasheena sharafta leh waxaan halkan idinkugu soo gudbineynaa sawirrada kulankii uu xalay Madaxweynaha jamhuuriyadda Federaalka ah ee Soomaaliya Mudane Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud uu la qaatay xildhibaanada baarlamanka Soomaaliya.   Source: (Radio Mogadisho)

GENEVA, September 18 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency announced on Tuesday that this year’s Nansen Refugee Award goes to humanitarian Hawa Aden Mohamed for her exceptional, tireless and inspiring work for Somalia’s refugee and displaced girls and women. UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said in Geneva that the 63-year-old former Somali refugee, who heads the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development (GECPD) in Puntland, north-eastern Somalia, had “carried out her important work under incredibly difficult and challenging circumstances in [...]

Somali immigrants to the UK and USA appear to integrate better and have fewer mental health problems if they are allowed to work and they receive practical support during the first few years of their time in the new country, according to a study led by researchers at Queen Mary, University of London (UK) and published in BioMed Central Public Health today. The study used a survey and focus groups to investigate the experiences of Somalis living in London (UK) [...]

(Reuters) – Former cabinet minister Mohamed Osman Jawaari was elected speaker of Somalia’s parliament by a majority vote on Tuesday to lay the groundwork for a new government in the war-torn Horn of Africa country. The next step in a Western-backed plan to end two decades of strife is the election of a president charged with the task of rebuilding institutions plagued by corruption and infighting. Somalia has been mired in civil strife, grinding poverty, Islamist militancy and maritime piracy [...]

A ‘foreign accent’ when speaking Somali or other signs of westernisation which cannot be kept hidden may be enough for some Somali refugees to be given residency in the Netherlands, immigration minister Gerd Leers told MPs in a briefing on Wednesday. Refugees returning to southern and central Somalia may be too westernised to live under the strict Islamic rules imposed by Al Shabaab, which dominates these areas, the minister said. The measure is more likely to apply to youngsters who [...]