Ethiopia is voting today, but the Somali Regional State isn’t partaking in the election. The country is voting to elect a new government, but the Somali regional state has been excluded due to pre-electoral fraud, according to a statement issued by The National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE). The region is one of ten regions …
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Canada is holding a national summit to fight Islamophobia. Canada is a federal country with a population of 37.59 million, 3.2 % of which are Muslims; Islam is the second-largest religion in Canada. But Canadian Muslims have lately experienced atrocities ranging from killing, street assault, and stark threats. And as recent as two weeks ago, four …
Islamophobia is blamed for the killing of a Muslim family in London Ontario, Canada. A hate-motivated man overran a Muslim family and wiped them out, as they’re standing shoulder to shoulder awaiting a green light to cross a street. Four of the family members died at the science, and one (the only survivor) ended up …
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We Somalis can get along with each other individually, but can’t easily work on the “common good”. What’s the reason? This is the million-dollar question. We can sit together at coffee shops, eat food together, and even live together. However, we can hardly work on any common goal. We’re friends on the surface, but foes underneath. …
Somali politics is both thorny and explosive. If you write something about anything of the country’s situation, you offend one group of people or another. Everybody is sensitive. And there are clan enclaves all over the place. Don’t step on my toes, they demand. Somali politics is explosive, but we can’t keep mute because we’ve …
