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Somali Heritage Week inspires hope for the next generation

Mayran Kalah at the opening of Somali Heritage Week at Winnipeg's Central Park on June 25. (Fartun Abdi)
By: CBC   Mayran Kalah acted as an interpreter to help grandmas group share history, knowledge with next generation Mayran Kalah is a Somali language interpreter and also acts as an essential human channel that connects her Somali community in Winnipeg intergenerationally. Kalah is part of the Somali...

Anthony Sawina convicted of shooting Somali-Americans

Anthony Sawina targeted group in Minnesota as they headed to prayers, wounding two, after threatening to 'kill all'. A jury has convicted a white man of attempted murder for shooting and wounding two Somali-American men who were on their way to Ramadan prayers in Minneapolis...

Somali Migrants in Libya Don’t Want to go Home

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...

Somaliland:On World Toilet Day, 14 Somali villages are recognized for abandoning open defecation

Garowe, Hargeisa, 19 November 2016 - Twelve villages in Somaliland and two in Puntland have been officially recognized for demonstrating that everyone in their community uses a toilet and no longer goes into the fields, bushes, forests, water or open spaces to defecate. The news...

Minnesota measles outbreak: Officials say Somali families ‘targeted with misinformation’

By Samuel Chamberlain Minnesota health officials said Monday that Somali families in the state had been "targeted with misinformation" about vaccines as the number of measles cases neared 50. The Minnesota Department of Health had confirmed 48 measles cases Monday, 46 of them in children under...

Democratic reform must mean fair deal for long-suffering Somalis

The Somali people’s under-representation in parliament since the beginning of the federal era need to be corrected, writes Mohamed Olad, Media and Communications Advisor to Somali Region President Mustafa Omer.
By Mohamed Olad   In late December, the Somali regional government asked the House of Federation to revise the region’s representation in the federal parliament. In a letter addressed to the upper chamber, Somali president Mustafa Omer, on behalf of the State Council, requested an adjustment of the number of...

Watch:Somali Refugee Arrives in Oregon

After a four year process of background checks and other vetting, 18-year-old Asial was able to come to Portland, Oregon, while the block on President Trump's immigration order is in place.   SOURCE:NBCNEWS

‘Missing girls could be in Walthamstow’ say police

LONDON (Guardian- Series) - Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of two teenage girls, who are known to frequent the Walthamstow area.Yasmin Ashkir and Ikram Farah, both 16 have been missing since Wednesday, August 24.Yasmin, who is of Somali and Dutch heritage,...

“I am America’s hope and the president’s nightmare”: Ilhan Omar talks with Trevor Noah

The Minnesota state rep. is a refugee and the first Somali-American Muslim legislator, so the travel ban's personal Few people in the United States can relate to the plight of foreign refugees. But one politician knows just how devastating President Trump’s moratorium on refugees can be....

Who is Abdullahi Sheikh Abas? The first Somalia refugee elected as MP in historic election

Born in Kenya's largest refugee camp, Abdullahi Sheikh Abas, 31, has made headlines after he defeated a prominent Somali official to become a member of parliament. These are the first parliamentary elections in the embattled nation since 1984. For over 20 years, Kenya has been...