Somali

Microphone program of the Somali section of the Voice of America radio station of Saturday, August 4, invited Abdirashid Duale, Dahabshiil Group GCEO, to recount salient points of a meeting he just concluded with 27 university graduates whom Dahabshiil financially supported with tertiary-level programs revolving around communal...

Six Somali students of a private university in Dhaka have been missing for more than a year. The university filed a general diary (GD) with West Uttara Police Station on July 24, 2017, but police have not been able to trace the students over the...

By Bashir Goth Somalis have always regarded poetry as the pinnacle of their literary heritage but the elegance of the poetic expression came through singing in folklore dances. Before the arrival of the Arabian oud, the ears of the Somali people were trained to the beat of...

Somali government efforts to evacuate a large number of Somali migrants from Libya hit a snag after the delegation sent there was unable to persuade migrants to abandon the dangerous sea journey to Europe and instead return to Somalia. Members of the delegation say the...

Congratulatory messages from Somali and other parts of the world are being shared on social media following the election of Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf as president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Somali judge was elected to the court’s Chamber of Summary Procedure...

By CORRESPONDENT, NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 29 – Remittances became a key issue in improving the economy of East Africa as the World Economic Forum came to an end this weekend in Davos, Switzerland. Speakers at Davos highlighted the important role of remittances from the diaspora as vital...

The music video went up on December 22. It's got all the ingredients to go viral: a catchy beat, smooth vocals and easy-to-copy dance moves. It's garnered over two million views so far and inspired copies around the world. But it's definitely not your typical internet...

Mubarak Farah was eight years old when he began teaching himself to play the piano. A refugee who came to Ottawa with his family when he was three, Farah listened to the Somali folk music played from his family’s cassettes, matching the notes on...

Mogadishu (HOL) - Veteran Somali female musician, Khadija Abdullahi Dalees passed away on Monday in Toronto, Canada, Somali government confirmed. Confirming her death, Somali Information Minister, Abdirahman Omar Osman said Dalees was the first female singer heard on Radio Muqdisho in 1952. "I am extending condolence...

By Jim Siegel  The Columbus Dispatch Before Ismail Mohamad could become possibly the first Somali-born attorney licensed to practice in Ohio, he first had to convince his family that he was pursuing the right profession. They knew he was tough, having escaped the violence of civil war...