Uber and Lyft driver Abdillahi Mahamed Abdi (right) points to his shirt stained from blood from when a passenger assaulted him. Rep. Mohamud Noor, DFL-Minneapolis, (left) interprets for him. Whipsawed by shrinking fares and rising costs, Uber and Lyft drivers are pressing lawmakers to force the companies to address their long-standing complaints of meager wages, […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Mekfira Hussein and Abduljabar Hussein have been indicted for their roles in the $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID19 pandemic, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, Mekfira Hussein, 38, was the president and owner of Shamsia Hopes, a nonprofit […]
Hundreds of Somalis gathered in Dubai this weekend to watch The Gravedigger’s Wife, a powerful film by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed. The Finnish-Somali writer-director was there to screen his award-winning movie, which had its premiere at Cannes Film Festival last year, at Cinema Akil’s first Arab Cinema Week, which ended on Sunday. For 10 days, the programme by Cinema […]
After successfully self-publishing two children’s books, Edmonton author Rahma Mohamed, 40, was looking for a publisher to release her third book and reach a much larger audience. “With self-publishing, there are places that you can’t get into,” Mohamed, who writes under the pen name Rahma Rodaah, told CBC’s Edmonton AM on Tuesday. While she was […]
The wife of Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman incorporated a nonprofit that reported feeding 2,500 children per day under a federal program that’s been rocked by alleged fraud in Minnesota. Ilo Amba incorporated a nonprofit called Urban Advantage Services in November 2020, registering its office at the south Minneapolis home she shares with Osman. The […]
A police officer might have witnessed a young man “collapse” before he was released from police custody and hours later died, a pre-inquest hearing has heard. Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was initially arrested on suspicion of a breach of the peace at his home on Newport Road, Roath on the evening of 8 January 2021. The […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia 06 October 2022 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), Federation of Somali Journalists (FESOJ), Somali Media Association (SOMA) and the Somalia Mechanism of the Safety of Journalists (SMSJ) jointly condemn the detention of Arlaadi Media Network (AMN) journalist, Yusuf Mohamed Adam, who was held at a military camp by the Ethiopian contingent under the […]
A crowd of hundreds of people assembled at the Islamic Community Center of Tempe, heads bowed in prayer, on Friday. Friends, family, and community members gathered to pay their respects to Ali Osman, a man who was shot and killed days earlier by Phoenix police. In the days since police officers killed Osman, a 34-year-old Black […]
Nairobi, October 3, 2022 — In response to reports that Somali National TV journalist Ahmed Mohamed Shukur was killed in a bomb attack on Friday, September 30, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement: “Ahmed Mohamed Shukur joins a long list of Somali journalists who have lost their lives while reporting the news, […]
It was an incredibly powerful story that deeply touched Star readers and significantly changed the life of a young man in Somalia. But an important detail was false. As a result, we failed to present accurate facts, and we owe it to our readers to set the record straight and try to get to the bottom of […]