Raage Haji Mohamed came to Canada as a refugee 20 years ago and has been heavily involved in the Ottawa Somali community, serving as director of the Somali centre for three years and working with aid groups, including Oxfam and Save the Children.
Last year, a group of Somalis led by former defence minister Mohamed Abdi [...]
Foreign Affairs told CBC News in an email that the department was “aware of the detention” and that consular officials in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, are in contact with local authorities. They’re also providing assistance “to the individual.”
No charges
Foreign Affairs told Mohamoud’s family that the 52-year-old hasn’t been formally charged but that local police [...]
Secretary general of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said on Saturday that Somalia was expecting immediate assistance.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said Somalia was facing a big humanitarian tragedy, and mostly children were affected from it.
“The number of children below 5 who have died in Somalia in recent three months has reached 29,000,” Ihsanoglu said as [...]
Ghana’s former President and African Union High Representative for Somalia, Jerry John Rawlings, has called on the international community to urgently come to the aid of Somalia to help alleviate the agony of famine.
Rawlings said a medium- to long-term programme had to be put in place to prevent the recurrence of the devastating famine in [...]
DADAAB, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in the country’s famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official said Monday as Washington prepared to announce $100 million in new famine aid.
To highlight the crisis, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden visited a refugee camp on a patch of [...]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Police said Friday that they arrested a man who they believe fatally shot the mother of his child in a Minot apartment earlier this year, but that they’re still investigating the killing of her brother, mother and mother’s boyfriend.
Omar Kalmio was arrested on a murder charge in the January slaying of [...]
ST. PAUL — A University of Minnesota program that helps immigrant doctors qualify to practice in Minnesota has fallen victim to last month’s state budget agreement.
Lawmakers eliminated funding for the $150,000 program during the last-minute negotiations, Minnesota Public Radio reported today.
The program has allowed three doctors from Somalia, after years of professional limbo, to begin [...]
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
Monday, August 08, 2011
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the African Union to investigate the fatal shooting of Somali journalist Farah Hassan Sahal of Radio Simba on 4 August in the capital Mogadishu.
The IFJ wrote to the African Union Commission Chairman, Jean Ping, following reports claiming the [...]
NAIROBI/MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A $3.6 million ransom seized in Somalia in May was destined for a pirate boss subject to U.S. sanctions, an illustration of how a criminal enterprise that costs the global economy billions of dollars pays scant heed to policy directives from Washington.
Documents obtained by Reuters and multiple sources in Somalia show the [...]
American overseas schools start from kindergarten to twelfth grade institutions. These schools get U.S. sponsorship through government agencies and/or parent groups, churches, private businesses and will assist U.S. students who are eligible in foreign countries. However, in Latin American countries these institutions will not be classified as international schools.
Generally, these schools will have the standard [...]