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FAHMA MOHAMED made history by becoming one of the youngest people in the UK to receive a doctorate

FAHMA MOHAMED made history by becoming one of the youngest people in the UK to receive a doctorate. The 19-year-old from Bristol was awarded the doctor of laws by the University of Bristol for leading a campaign to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). “This has been...

US:Young Somali man becomes school role model

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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...

British Somali doctor’s mission to get London’s Somali community vaccinated

Doctor Farah Bede (Image: Farah Bede)
By:MYLONDON Doctor Farah Bede is a GP in Tower Hamlets who wants to study the impact of coronavirus on her community Back in March 2020 Doctor Farah Bede, a GP in Tower Hamlets, knew that the oncoming pandemic would have a disproportionate effect on many of...

1 woman arrested after police say she was involved in a drunk driving hit-and-run, had 3 children in car

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) -A Rochester female is arrested after police said she was driving drunk and was involved in a hit-and-run.The hit-and-run happened Tuesday morning around 12:20 at the intersection of Wilder Road NW and West Circle Dr. NW. According to the Rochester Police...

Man attacked Sheik Dabcasar at gunpoint outside local mosque caught on camera

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Disturbing video has been released of a man being attacked at gunpoint outside a local mosque Sunday morning. Memphis Police Department is now investigating the aggravated assault. >> PHOTOS: Man attacked at gunpoint outside local mosque caught on camera The incident happened in the 3500...

Rising number of Somali residents in Ankara attracts entrepreneurs to bring their culture in Turkish capital

ANKARA, TURKEY - MARCH 31: A Somalian woman stands at a store in Turkish capital Ankara on March 31, 2021. In recent years, many Somalian entrepreneurs who have turned the increase in the number of Somalis living in the capital Ankara into an opportunity and added value to the city with their restaurants, cafes, barbers, hairdressers and markets. Compared to other cities, Ankara's transportation network is well developed, for this reason as well as being the capital city Ankara is preferred by Somalians. Somalians call the city the Mogadishu of Turkey. ( Esra Hacioğlu - Anadolu Agency )
BY:ANADOLU AGENCY Taking the opportunity of the rising number of their fellow nationals living in the Turkish capital, Somali entrepreneurs both earn and contribute to the country’s economy with various shops they opened in the city. Due to similarities between Turkish and Somali nations, such as...

Prominent Somali female singer , Khadija Abdullahi Daleys dies in Canada

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...

REMEMBERING Abdirahman Osman Raghe

Abdirahman Osman Raghe, our friend, colleague and mentor, passed away in the early hours of 7 March, 2017, at Toronto, Canada. Raghe was a tireless warrior in the cause of peace, an inspirational figure who never wavered in his faith in the dignity of the...

6 Somali students missing in Dhaka for one year

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...

CANADA: Imam of mosque where Samatar Farah, 24, prayed questions police calling shooting ‘targeted

Outpouring of funds for Farah's funeral a 'translation' of community's love for him, says Hassan Ibrahim Members of Toronto's Somali community are reeling from the loss of a 24-year-old fatally shot in Scarborough, who is being remembered as having a kind and easy-going personality, always...