Somali Diaspora The Only Donors
Somalia is facing a very real risk of famine, with more than 6 million people, half of Somali population, facing acute food insecurity in the country, three UN agencies have warned.
According to the latest findings, by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit(FSNAU) in...
East African Leaders Meet Amid High Security in Somali Capital Mogadishu
East African leaders arrived in Somalia’s capital for talks on issues including South Sudan’s crisis, a sign of improving security in the Horn of African country that’s trying to emerge from decades of civil war and hold elections next month.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and...
This Somali-American Teen Is Shaking Up The Miss Minnesota USA Pageant
Somali-American Halima Aden is competing for the title of Miss Minnesota USA and she’s hoping to diversify the archetypal image of beauty pageant contestants.
Born in a Kenyan refugee camp, Aden moved to Minnesota ― home to one of the largest Somali communities in America...
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...
27 Graduates Benefit From A Dahabshiil-Supported Program Impacting Positively on Society
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...
US:Young Somali man becomes school role model
BURNSVILLE, Minn. – At Gideon Pond Elementary, the morning greeting is delivered by the principal.
“Make a positive choice,” Chris Bellmont counsels his students over the school public address system.
The principal may deliver the message, but a 23-year-old teachers’ aide makes it stick.
“He is the...
Somali man on trial in Germany over fatal stabbings
By:AFP
A Somali man went on trial in Germany on Friday accused of stabbing three people to death and injuring several others, with prosecutors seeking to have him placed in psychiatric care.
The suspect, an asylum seeker with a history of mental health problems, faces charges...
Minnesota Somalis see Trump as symbol of more hostile America
many Somali-Americans in Minnesota, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's fundraising visit to the state on Friday is the culmination of a tough week, a reminder of recent hostilities against people like them.
They believe Trump's rhetoric on Muslims and immigrants is emboldening hate, and they...
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...
Somali Corpus: state of the art, and tools for linguistic analysis
Dr. Jama Musse Jama
Abstract
Developing IT resources for language mainly focuses on well-described languages with long-standing written traditions and with a large number of speakers. One of the main challenges for the languages with more recent written traditions is the lack of enough data for...