Category: ENGLISH NEWS
Muujis: American journalist’s abduction in Somalia staged?
UPDATE: The abduction resumes, known-captures want ransom now (Muujis) If it sounds too good to be true it probably is, even in Somalia. Last night, several Somali news agencies, including VOA-Somali reported about an abduction incident in Galka’yo, Somalia. As usual, the story was later picked up by the western media. Such activity is [...]
Kenyan Jets bomb home full of children
(Muujis) Since Kenyan troops declared war on Somali based terrorist-group Al-Shabaab, it has gained the sympathy and unconditional support from many nations that have intrest in the fight, including the fragile Somali government. Overwhelming majority of Somalis want Al-Shabaab wiped of the map, but Kenya’s recent killings of civilians including many children is set to [...]
2011: The year my heart was fundamentally shattered
Although I had nothing to do with the failure of Somalia’s nationhood and its recent horrific famine, I’ve been feeling an extreme personal guilt for not doing enough to halt the pain of many dying infants, elders and mothers in the worst form of starvation. Every night, as my children went to bed well fed-despite my own [...]
VIDEO: Egypt’s “Day of Shame”
(DailyMail) After being viciously beaten by a 10-strong mob of Egyptian male soldiers, this woman lies helplessly on the ground as her shirt is ripped from her body and a man kicks her with full force in her exposed chest. Moments earlier she had been struck countless times in the head and body with metal [...]
AP: Kenyan Troops “lost” in Somalia, can’t see the enemy
(AP) Kenyan troops marched into this decaying Somali fishing village two months ago, but the al-Qaida-linked militants they came to hunt are nowhere to be seen. The Kenyan military says it’s getting ready to push forward with its offensive against the al-Shabab insurgents, who are blamed for attacks on Kenyan soil including tourist kidnappings. For [...]
AP: White House Backs Away From Critical Veto Threat
WASHINGTON — The White House backed away from a critical veto threat Friday as top Republicans in Congress served noticed they will extend expiring Social Security payroll tax cuts only if President Barack Obama swiftly decides the fate of a proposed oil pipeline that promises thousands of jobs. With Republicans talking tough and lawmakers from [...]
Ron Paul emerges as force in 2012 GOP race
While Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has spent much of his career in Congress on the ideological sidelines of mainstream Republican politics, he has emerged as a powerful force in the race for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, Joel Achenbach reports: Paul opposes not only recent government shenanigans but also stuff that happened 50 or [...]
As Ethiopia enters Somalia again, Al-Shabaab is set to re-gain its nearly unanimous support of 2006
Ethiopia’s 2006 invasion sparked bloody uprising Once again the poor people of Somalia will have to choose the lesser of two evils: Terrorist group (Al-Shabaab) mercilessly terrorizing it’s population in cities across the nation or Terrorist Troops (Ethiopian troops) whom massacred thousands in Somalia in its 2006 invasion despite a long and bitter history which [...]
Somali Singer’s Minnesota Show Cancelled: Visa delay
Aar Maanta is a Somali singer based in London and is loved by many Somalis in the U.S but couldn’t deliver a concert he promised them this year because his Visa process was delayed by U.S’s Department of Homeland Security. Singer told TwinCities Paper “ “I was shocked, frustrated and disappointed,” READ Full Story
City of Nashville expels Over 90 Cab drivers
UPDATE: DRIVER PERMITS WERE TEMPORARILY RENEWED FOR 30 DAYS. By Saacid A. Noor (Imran) Nashville TN –(Muujis) Music City will be 98 less Taxi drivers starting tomorrow as a result of sudden amendment to the City’s ordinance by the Transportation License Commission. Permits won’t be renewed for these cabbies the TLC classified as “reckless” and [...]
Secretary Clinton Hammers Al-Shabaab for Blocking NGO’s
New York, New York (Muujis) “I honestly do not understand, what is in it for them. What possible ideological or political motive can compel them to see women and children die because they cannot get access to help” asked, the U.S Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. The powerful rhetorical question arose during high-level meeting on [...]
Tennessee’s Somali Students Assume Greater Responsibilities
Last Saturday, I sat through an interesting meeting with the Somali Student Association of Tennessee (SSAT), as their newly elected President (Khalid) and Vice President (Hawo) discussed their next volunteering project in the community. This wasn’t the first time I met or produced a report about the group but I was kind of a stranger [...]
AMISOM claims responsibility for the death of Malaysian Journalist
PRESS STATEMENT AMISOM apologizes for the death of a Malaysian journalist Nairobi, September 26th, 2011; following the accidental killing of a Malaysian Journalist, Mura Faisal Bin Mohamed, and the injuring of another, Aji Seragar Bin Mazlan alias Aji Akram Solema, on 02 September 2011 in Mogadishu, the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the Commission [...]
Nobel Peace prize winner,environmentalist Wangari Maathai has died
(CapitalFM) NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 26 – 2004 Nobel Peace prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai has died while undergoing treatment at the Nairobi Hospital. Prof Maathai succumbed to ovarian cancer at 11pm on Sunday night, just over a year since she was diagnosed with cancer, in July 2010. The 71-year-old political activist is well known [...]
Security Agency displays donkey-driven-cart laden with explosives
(Bar-kulan) Somalia’s National Security Agency has on Friday displayed a donkey cart laden with explosives which was intercepted by the government troops in Mogadishu. The agency said al-Shabaab militia group wanted to use the donkey cart for attacks. It said government troops foiled that attack after intercepting the explosives at EX control Afgoye, on the [...]
Ahmadinejad: Twin Towers Couldn’t Have Been Toppled By Two Planes
(AP) WASINGTON — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that as an engineer he’s sure the twin towers were not brought down by jetliners. Ahmadinejad, in an interview with The Associated Press, says it would have been impossible for two jetliners to bring down the towers simply by hitting them. he says some kind of planned [...]
Somali teens earn guns in Quran recitation contest
(CNN) Three Somali teenagers who won a Quran recitation contest have been rewarded with weapons and cash by the Islamist group Al-Shabaab, according to reports from Somalia. The first-place winner was awarded an AK-47 rifle and $700, a report from RBC Radio said. Second place was worth an AK-47 and $500, and third place got [...]
Appeal denied: Troy Davis to be Executed Tonight at 7 p.m
(AP/HuffPost) ATLANTA — Yet another appeal denied, Troy Davis was left with little to do Tuesday but wait to be executed for a murder he insists he did not commit. He lost his most realistic chance to avoid lethal injection on Tuesday, when Georgia’s pardons board rejected his appeal for clemency. As his scheduled 7 [...]
Mass. balks at Arizona licenses
(Boston.com)State Police are investigating hundreds of people who converted Arizona driver’s licenses to Massachusetts licenses, according to a police spokesman, and since October the state has suspended the driving rights of 124 of them. Authorities said they have not found national security or identity fraud cases, but immigrants whose language barrier kept them from getting [...]
Norway ready to recognize a Palestinian state
(AP) OSLO, Norway — Norway’s foreign minister says the Scandinavian country will back Palestinian officials in their appeal to the U.N. for statehood.In a Facebook post late Saturday, Jonas Gahr Stoere wrote “Palestinians have the right to go to the U.N.” and Norway is “ready to recognize a Palestinian state.” He also urged for talks [...]
FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’
(WIRED.COM) By Spencer Ackerman The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.” At the Bureau’s training ground in Quantico, [...]
101-Year-Old Evicted Woman, Is Getting Home Back
DETROIT — A 101-year-old woman who was evicted from her longtime Detroit home after her 65-year-old son failed to pay the mortgage is getting it back, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said Wednesday. Texana Hollis was evicted Monday and her belongings were placed outside the home where she had lived for nearly [...]
Tanzania: Ship Sinks, Hundreds Killed
STONE TOWN, Tanzania — More than 240 people were killed when a crowded ferry sank off Tanzania’s coast and some 600 have been rescued, officials said Sunday, figures that indicate the boat was filled beyond capacity. Assistant police commissioner Mussa Ali Mussa, the head of police in Zanzibar, said Sunday that at least 240 people [...]
US ‘opposed Kenya on Somalia buffer zone” aka Jubaland
By KEVIN J. KELLY NATION Correspondent New York The United States strongly opposes Kenya’s effort to establish a buffer zone in southern Somalia, a leaked diplomatic cable shows. In the December 2009 message recently posted by WikiLeaks, a US State Department official is said to have “forcibly underscored” Washington’s concerns over reports that Kenya was [...]
