News Somalia Social: Edmonton and Halifax advocates fight to save Somali refugee from deportation
He doesn't speak Somali, he doesn't know the culture and he considers it ... A spokesperson for Ontario's Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services said the ministry does not comment on ...
News Somalia Social: Somalia names stadium after slain Mogadishu mayor
Somalia named a stadium in the capital Mogadishu after its ... The stadium as per photos shared on social media had been rebranded to the “Eng. Yariisow Stadium.” A special prayer session was also ...
News Somalia Social: Hodan Nalayeh, Somali journalist killed in bombing, a trailblazer
OTTAWA — As bombings and attacks rocked the African nation of Somalia in recent years, Canadian-Somali journalist Hodan Nalayeh found what she believed was a higher calling: Showcasing the hidden beauty of her homeland and its people. On Twitter, she shared posts featuring marine life dangling from the hands of fishermen, a small boat setting out in cerulean waters, and locals holding leopard-spotted stingrays. “Dried fish is big business on the island of #Ilisi. They call this fish ‘Shabeelka Bada,’ or ‘tiger of the ocean,’” Nalayeh wrote Thursday. “People save all their lives to have a retirement by the beach, yet we have plenty of it and cannot see its value. Let’s appreciate the beautiful blessings we have,” she wrote in an earlier posting. On Friday, the journalist dedicated to telling positive stories from a country suffering through decades of civil war, extremist attacks and famine was killed along with her husband, Farid Jama Suleiman, entrepreneur Mahad Nur and at least 23 others after a bomb exploded outside the Asasey Hotel in the Somali city of Kismayo and gunmen stormed inside. Fifty-six other people were wounded in the attack, according to the Jubbaland regional president. Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, claimed responsibility for the 14-hour assault that ended as troops killed the gunmen. On Saturday, friends and family reeled as they heard that Nalayeh, 43, a journalist and mother expecting her third child, was among the dead. Maaz Khan, a 24-year-old filmmaker in Toronto, said Nalayeh had shared her hard-earned wisdom when he met her a few years ago. “She was always very inspiring,” he told the Associated Press. “She would say, ‘It’s tough in the beginning, but always push through and don’t give up on...
News Somalia Social: Minnesotans inspired by Somali-Canadian journalist killed in terrorist attack
She had followed all of Nalayeh’s dispatches about Somalia on TV and social media, and drew inspiration from her frequent hashtag NaagIskaDhig (“be a strong woman”). After Nalayeh was one of 26 people ...
News Somalia Social: Ethiopia PM - Somali president confer in Addis Ababa
At the heart of that summit has been respect for sovereignty and better economic and social cooperation between them. “The two leaders, including the First Lady of Somalia, planted seedlings within ...
News Somalia Social: Somalia: PM Appoints New Committee
Labour and Social Services, Sadik Warfa and Governor of Banadir, Abdirahman Omar Osman. The committee is tasked to arrange the upcoming 59th Somali independence day. They are expected to closely ...
News Somalia Social: 6 Key Points to Address: Using Learning to Strengthen Cash and Voucher Assistance in the 2019 Drought Response in Somalia
According to a special alert by FAO on 15 May 2019, more than 2.2 million people, almost 18% of the population of Somalia ... overstretched social support networks and declining humanitarian ...
News Somalia Social: Kenya shuts Somalia border as secessionist group raises eyebrows
“We are a social political party that is proposing an independent republic of NFD, free from Kenya and free from Somalia,” the group said in a statement. “This movement is a result of continuous ...
News Somalia Social: Cyrus Oguna: Colonel who gave Somali incursion a human heart
Through the KDF Public Information Office, the officer also organised trips for journalists to travel to Somalia to cover the war and more often than not, took jibes at Al-Shabaab militants spreading ...
News Somalia Social: Muslim Amazon employees say they fear taking time to pray at work, are discriminated against in several ways
Somali immigrants make up a sizable portion of the 3,000 workers ... to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp A whistleblower complaint points to major holes in the social media company's efforts to stymie ...
News Somalia Social: Somalia: UN Draws Fire After Electing Somalia, Congo to Women's Rights Boards
The United Nations has elected Somalia to board charged with promoting ... Leone were among those elected by the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to the Executive Board of the U.N ...
