One afternoon in 1993, as Carolyn Treadway looked out through her house window, she caught the sight of a woman in a traditional Islamic garment practicing parallel parking between mobile cones beside Faribault's Central Park. (more…)
Mourning my friend Mohamed, the dry cleaner of Mogadishu
Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, has been described as the most dangerous city in the world. But some people there are trying to bring life back to the place. During her regular visits, BBC World Service Africa editor Mary Harper came to know one of them - an entrepreneur named Mohamed Mahamoud...
Shaqaale Laga Ceyriyay Xafiiska RW Soomaaliya
Muqdishu 20/08/2018 (banooda)-Illaa 106 shaqaale oo ka shaqeynayay qeybaha Xafiiska Ra'iisul Wasaaraha Soomaaliya ayaa laga ceyriyay xafiiska, iyagoo liiskooda la soo dhejiyay, waxaa feylashooda loo gudbiyay Guddiga Shaqaalaha Rayidka, si dib u eegis loogu sameeyo, (more…)
Somalia: Al-Shabaab loses strategic town to military
Military forces of Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region have retaken a strategic town from Islamic militant group al Shabaab, an officer said on Friday. (more…)
Journalist captured in Somalia weighed up desperate last act
“It would have been a suicidal act.” Michael Scott Moore was long into his 977 days held captive by Somalia pirates when a guard's carelessly laid gun offered him a way out. (more…)
Despite Trump, Somali-Americans overcame scrutiny to make political history in Minnesota
Two days before the 2016 US presidential elections, Donald Trump visited Minnesota and told supporters that faulty refugee vetting processes allowed large numbers of Somalis to come to the state. They came here, he said, “without your knowledge, without your support or approval, and with some of them then joining ISIS and...
Doorashada iyo Dibudhaca Gobolada Koonfur Galbeed
Muqadishu 18/08/2018 (banooda)-Koonfur Galbeed waxey wajaheysa maalmo doorasho ah, musharaxiin badan ayaa la filaya iney isu soo tagaan hogaanka maamulka dhulkiisa ay inta badan xooga ku joogaan Al Shabaab. (more…)
Eritrea delegation in Somalia to deepen bilateral relations
An Eritrean government delegation arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday to hold high-level meetings. (more…)
Magacaabid Xilal Dowladda Soomaaliya
Muqdisho, 16ka Ogoosto, 2018: Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Mudane Maxamed Cabdullaahi Farmaajo ayaa maanta dib u habeyn ballaaran ku sameeyay qaar kamid ah hay’adaha amniga dalka iyo Agaasinka Madaxtooyada QarankaWareegto kasoo baxday Xafiiska Madaxweynaha ayaa magacaabis iyo xil ka qaadis lagu sameeyay masuuliyiinta hoos ku xusan;1. Dr. Aamina Siciid Cali...
Saudi Arabia rejects 27,000 sheep and goats from Somalia
Authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have cause to be returned some 27,000 livestock – sheep and goat – to Somalia. (more…)