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Need for interpreters complicates court cases
Omar Abdi Abshir apparently knew enough English to threaten a 12-year-old girl with death if she refused to have sex with him....
Read More »Ethiopian foreign minister urges Somalis to support AU peacekeepers
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Ethiopia's foreign minister on Thursday urged Somalis to support AU peacekeepers deploying to boost a weak government in the face of...
Read More »Somalia:Human Right Defenders are in Risk
Somali Human Rights Defenders Network is condemning the killing of Mr. Isse Abdi Isse , the Chairperson of Kisima Peace and Development Organizati...
Read More »Portland man fined $500 for threatening Somali
PORTLAND (AP) - A Portland man who launched a racially charged tirade and physically threatened a Somali cab driver outside a convenience store has be...
Read More »Up to 40,000 civilians flee Mogadishu
NAIROBI, 15 March 2007 (IRIN) - Escalating violence and insecurity in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, forced at least 40,000 civilians to flee the city...
Read More »Citing Humiliation, Imams Sue US Airways, Airport Commission
Minneapolis, MN (HOL) - The six Muslim imams who were taken off a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport have filed on Monday...
Read More »Pork sales ring up issues of faith
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn . -- Beryl Dsouza was late and in no mood for delays when she stopped at a Target store after work two weeks ago for milk, bread and...
Read More »Man gets jail time for dealing in khat
Saying she wanted to send the message "when in Wisconsin, follow the laws in Wisconsin," a Dane County judge ordered a former Fitchburg resident to se...
Read More »Kenya defends transfers, absolves U.S.
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenyan authorities on Wednesday defended the secret transfers of dozens of prisoners to war-torn Somalia and rejected allegations th...
Read More »In Somalia, reporter held incommunicado since Friday
New York, March 14, 2007—A reporter for a leading broadcaster in the capital Mogadishu, has been jailed incommunicado since Friday by Somalia’s Et...
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