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The family of a missing 15-year-old girl who is feared to have travelled to Syria have made an appeal for her return. Yusra Hussien, from Easton in Bristol, flew from Heathrow to Turkey last week with a 17-year-old girl from London, police said. Detectives said the priority was to find Yusra and “make sure she is safe”. Her family rejected …

by Sadik Warfa A dictionary definition of Diaspora is a “scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic area.” After decades of war, many Somalis left our Homeland seeking a better future. Today, there are approximately 2 to 3 million Somalis scattered around the world. Many of us immigrated to the United States–and the largest Somali community developed …

Ahmed Farah, 25, is facing being deported from Britain back to Somalia Was jailed in 2010 for his part in a knife raid in Southall, west London in 2010 Reported that he is being held at Dungavel Detention Centre in Lanarkshire Is now awaiting an immigration tribunal after an earlier case collapsed Moved to Britain from Somalia 23 years ago …

It was one of the most refreshing and reassuring weddings I attended for a long time, almost over a quarter of a century. Refreshing because since the grip of extremist trends of Ideologies that shun everything that appears, tastes and sounds genuine and indigenous in local cultures and replaces it with its narrow and sterile interpretation that deprives all kinds …

I am the sister of the martyr. I am the aunt of the potato seller at the local market. I am the daughter of the local sheikh. I am the injured of the revolution, the protester, the jailed, the detained. I am the tortured, the exiled, the kidnapped, the raped. I am the veiled, the non-veiled, I am a beautiful …

A Muslim teenager has been barred from starting her A-levels at one of London’s top state schools because she wears a full-face veil. The 16-year-old, who has studied at Camden School for Girls for five years, decided to wear the traditional Islamic niqab to cover her hair and face when she returned this month to start in the sixth form. …

(The Local) Three young men in southern Sweden suspected of attacking Somali refugees with stones and screaming “sieg heil” have been indicted on charges of racial agitation. The incident occurred on August 21st in the small municipality of Tomelilla in Skåne. Three brothers from Somali were awoken in the early hours when a window of their apartment was smashed. reports …

Hashi Kaar’s story is both uplifting and sad. A refugee from war-torn Somalia, he arrived in Australia as a 17-year-old boy without English, much schooling or an understanding of what the internet was. Just five years later, he was in his third year of university and employed as a junior application developer at pharmaceutical valuation company Medici Capital. Now, 13 …

Two siblings are on a quest to revive the entrepreneurial streak once associated with Somali communities abroad. Asli and Yassin Ciyow want to dispel the image that young diaspora Somalis are often unemployed, involved in gangs, or linked to Islamist militants. The duo, born to a Somali father and a French mother, are bringing together 32 aspiring young British-Somali entrepreneurs …

EL PASO — In a seafood restaurant where most of the wait staff and clientele preferred Spanish to English, Dekha Hassan-Mohamed mustered some dry wit that reflected how she was slowly adapting to her surroundings on the Texas-Mexico border. “I am becoming Mexican, no more Somalia,” she said, prompting a chuckle from her lawyer, Linda Corchado. Ms. Hassan-Mohamed’s grasp of …

(Leicester mercury) –  Leicester’s Somali community has fitted into city life thanks to things such as in schooling, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a strong community.  A report comparing seven cities has shown that Somali people have integrated better in Leicester than many other places. The Somalis in Leicester report, drawn up by the Open Society Foundations, was launched this …

Studying for a PhD in engineering at Cambridge, she might not seem like a prime candidate to enter into a polygamous marriage. But that is what Nabilah Phillips did, dropping out of university to become the second woman married to businessman Hasan Phillips who has since acquired a third wife. Yesterday it emerged that Mrs Phillips, from North London, is …

By Steve Visser The Atlanta Journal-Constitution DeKalb prosecutors on Tuesday are expected to lay out for jurors their case against an African man accused of raping two refugees from Somalia — a mother and her 15-year-old daughter — two years ago. Mwamaratunga Pipole is accused of using a knife to first rape a mother and then rape her 15-year-old daughter. …

Cape Town – Somalis fear a xenophobic syndicate is operating in the Western Cape, killing their nationals – 26 in a year to last month. The combined death toll in the other provinces was 14, said Somali journalist Mohamed Noor, who has been working in South Africa tracking attacks on Somalis for two years. Last year there were 56 killings …

In one of the most tasteless scenes in the terrible Sex and the City 2, Carrie and co. finally recognize the humanity of the women of Abu Dhabi when they remove their hijabs and reveal the Western designer outfits they’re wearing underneath. Crass though SATC’s gimmick may be, it’s representative of an attitude that’s widespread in the West: The veil …