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“We haven’t had enough time between one disaster and another” says MSF doctor on situation in Somalia
A senior doctor with the with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Baidoa, Somalia has described the humanitarian situation in the country as catastrophic. Dr Asma Aweis Abdallah said the drought in the country- the worst in four decades has forced people to move from their homes to look for health and humanitarian assistance. She said over the last…
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For Nadifa Mohamed, visiting homeland Somaliland is out of “Loyalty Rather Than Love,”
“This is your country.” That’s what everyone tells me and it’s true, my mother tongue does not surround me anywhere else, and in no other country does my face blend into the crowd so seamlessly. But is Somaliland my country? I don’t know. I left my hometown of Hargeisa at…
RSF calls on Somalia’s new president to prioritise journalists’ safety
Somalia’s new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud – elected on Sunday 15 May by 54 senators and 275 lower house members from among 39 candidates – must make journalists’ safety a priority in a country were political violence and corruption have long prevailed over press freedom, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF).…
Ramla Ali, the Somali born female boxer who is punching her way to the history books
Nobody realized the boy in the wheelchair would die. A grenade had exploded in his yard, a deadly pebble in Somalia’s civil war, but even as Abdul Rahman Ali got wheeled toward the hospital, the wounds from the shrapnel were not easy to recognize. When he passed, at age 12…
Somaliland independence celebration planned at St. John’s Cultural Centre on Saturday
Somalilanders in Edmonton will celebrate the 31st anniversary of their country’s independence on Saturday in the Canadian city. A party will be taking place at St. John’s Cultural Centre, located at 10611 110 Ave., from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Special guests for the night include Loula Isman, representative of Somaliland…
Art With Heart: How Saed sees therapy through his lence
HOW DO ARTISTS view work? Take Mustafa Saeed, a self-taught Somali photographer and creative based in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, for whom work is therapy. For him, with the stress of a deadline comes euphoria, and his favorite aspect in combining different mediums to explore socio-political issues? The whole…
Somalilanders’ remittance businesses thrive worldwide
Thirty years ago, Ismail Ahmed snuck from then war-ravaged Somaliland into neighbouring Djibouti, hidden on the back of a tipper truck. His brother, who was working in Saudi Arabia, sent him money to pay for a flight to London to take on a scholarship to study economics. “That’s when I…