Just days after U.S. Navy SEALs rescued Jessica Buchanan and her partner, Hargen Thisted, from their Somali captors, pirates are threatening to kill an American hostage kidnapped on Saturday if they are attacked, reports the AP. According to Abdi Abtidoon and Jay Bahadur of the Somalia Report, the hostage is Michael Scott Moore, an American […]
The traffic signs are not the only things coming up in Mogadishu. After decades of war that reduced the Somali capital almost to rubble and banished all semblance of normalcy from the streets, there are now rumblings of awakening, much as they may resemble a drunkard rousing themselves from a deep stupor. The […]
UITHOORN, Netherlands — A small Dutch city less than 20 kilometres from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport has become the hub of Europe’s sales of khat, a plant chewed for its stimulant qualities, soon to be banned in the Netherlands. In a discreet warehouse tucked away in the city of Uithoorn, around a hundred Somalis and Yemenis […]
Nairobi Jan 26,2012(qurbejoog.com)-War qoraal ah oo ka soo baxay xafiiska Ergeyga gaarka ah ee dalka Britain u qaabilsan Soomaaliya ayaa lagu faahfaahiyay qodobada shirka iyo ujeedooyinka ka danbeeya. Qoraalkan ayaa si qeyaxan loogu sharxayaa qodobo ay ka mid yihiin in awood qeybsiga shirka lagu saleyn doono 18kii gobol ee Jamhuuriyadii Soomaaliya iyo hanaankii 4.5 oo […]
The Somali government says it supports the U.S. military operation that freed two Western aid workers who had been held hostage in the war-ravaged country. In a statement released Thursday, Somalia’s transitional government said the rescue of Jessica Buchanan, an American, and Poul Thisted, a Dane, was a “great joy” to “right thinking people everywhere.” […]
Hargeysa Jan 26,2012(qurbejoog.com)-Madaxweyne ku-xigeenka Somaliland Md Cabdiraxmaan Saylici ayaa aad uga cadhooday hadal shalay ka soo yeedhay gudoomiyaha gollaha Wakiilada oo sheegayay in la xaliyay khilaafkii u dhexeeyay madaxweynaha iyo ku-xigeenkiisa. Guddoomiye Ciro ayaa saxaafada la hortagay hadalkan uu ku sheegay in la xaliyay khilaafkii u dhexeeyay madaxweynaha Somaliland Axmed Siilaanyo iyo ku-xigeenkiisa Cabdiraxmaan Saylici. […]
Washington Jan 26,2012(qurbejoog.com)-Dawlada Mareykanka ayaa jawaab adag ka bixisay hadal Kenya ka soo yeedhay oo tibaaxayay in iminka lajoogo xiligii qaxootiga Soomaalida dalkooda dib loogu celin lahaa. “Waxaanu rajeyneynaa kuna boorineynaa in dawlada Kenya ay kafaalo qaado baahiyaha qaxootiga Soomaaliya ee dalkeeda ku sugan,mana aha in dalkooda dib loogu celiyo qaxootiga si loo sameeyo aag […]
Gaalkacyo Jan 26,2012(qurbejoog.com)-Ciidamada Mareykanka ee shalay soo furtay labo ruux oo samfalayaal ahaa oo ilaa Octobertii hore lagu heystay badhtamaha Soomaaliya ayaa gacan weyn ka helay beesha meliishaadkii afduubka ku heystay ajaanibka. Ciidamada Mareykanka ayaa duyuuradahoodu caga dhigteen gegida duyuuradaha ee Gaalkacyo iyaga oo ogolaasho arintaa uga heystay beesha Konfurta Gaalkacyo. Ciidamo beeleedyada Beesha Konfurta […]
Kenya has been urged to continue providing refuge to Somalis fleeing violence and hunger in their homeland, a US State Department official said on Tuesday. “We continue to rely on and advocate strongly for the protection of Somalis inside Kenya, that they should not be sent back into Somalia in order to create some sort […]
In Somalia it is sometimes said that the town Galkayo translates as “foreigner runs away”. After its airport was used as the base of a US Navy Seal (Sea, Air and Land Teams) hostage rescue in the lawless country’s pirate heartland; the town might now want to change its name. Locals reported that several aircraft, […]