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They’re wanted in connection with stabbing a stranger to death on a sidewalk; taking a man at gunpoint; knifing a man held against his will; taking part in a shooting that nearly killed a man and as a target in a major drug-trafficking crackdown. The Ottawa police guns and gangs unit has identified five of [...]
British-based Somalilanders wave the flag of the internationally unrecognised self-declared republic of Somaliland as they hold a pro-independence rally outside Downing street in London on February 22, 2012. They called for recognition of Somaliland, currently a region of Somalia in the eyes of the international community, as a sovereign state following the region’s unilateral declaration [...]
Thursday, May 17, 2012 A military court in Hargeisa, the capital of Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, has sentenced 17 civilians to death for attacking an army base over a land dispute. An armed group of almost 30 civilians belonging to the same clan attacked soldiers at the camp on Tuesday, claiming the army had [...]
23-year-old Mohamed Yusuf It was “unprovoked, reckless, brutal and senseless” when Mohamed Yusuf punched Sean Murphy off his bicycle then kicked him as he lay helpless and fatally injured on the ground, a judge said Tuesday. But Judge Lynn Ratushny was just as shocked by what Yusuf and his friends did next that night. They [...]
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Thursday, May 17, 2012 Watch the TEDxMogadishu live video stream and see the event as it happens. The video stream will be available on this page beginning 2pm Somalia time, 1pm European time, 12pm London time, and 7am New York time on May 17. Mark your calendars. There is hope in Somalia. An influx of [...]
Photo/FILE A hand grenade. Attackers hurled a grenade into Bella Vista Night Club along Moi Avenue, Mombasa, on May 15, 2012. Police have launched a massive manhunt for those behind a grenade attack at a night club in Mombasa on Wednesday that left a security guard dead and four others injured. Four other people who [...]
Somali pirates raided by EU naval forces for the first time Tuesday, May 15, 2012 The European Union naval force patrolling the Indian Ocean on Tuesday carried out its first air strikes against pirate targets on shore, with a pirate reporting that the raid destroyed speed boats, fuel depots and an arms store. Bile Hussein, [...]
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Mo Farah has the mental strength to deal with the overwhelming pressure of expectation at the London Olympics, according to team-mate Chris Thompson. Backing: Mo Farah (left) and Chris Thompson (right) will fly the flag for Britain The 29-year-old will go into the home Games this summer as the world champion [...]
Love-struck teenagers, angry parents, rowing couples: Somali youth tired of seeing their homeland portrayed as a war-torn famine zone have started making films to show a different side to their country. “The world knows Somalia for war,” said Adirahman Ali Suge, a 19-year-old writer and film director, part of a group of refugee Somali film [...]
