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The story of Hamse Warfa begins in a place not unfamiliar to many immigrants in Minnesota:

Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia. But where that story culminates (at least for now), is quite unique: with a memoir Warfa released last month:

“America Here I Come: A Somali Refugee’s Quest for Hope.”

Growing up, Warfa was financially better off than the boys he played soccer within Mogadishu: His father, Mohamed, was a livestock trader, and his mother, Hindisa, ran a clothing retail business. Together, they had a private driver who took care of their needs and those of their 14 children, including Warfa, the 12th born — a luxury many Somali families didn’t have at the time. “My family lived quite comfortably in an affluent part of Mogadishu,” he said. “I had anything I needed as a child.”

When the civil war erupted

in 1991, however, the Warfa family’s luxurious lifestyle disappeared. After armed groups ousted the military government of President Mohamed Siad Barre, the country collapsed into anarchy. Killing, looting and rape came to define Mogadishu.

Warfa and his family escaped to a Kenyan refugee camp, where they faced series of tribulations for three years. Food was scarce. So was clean water. Warfa spent days and nights under a small tent. There were also violent crimes and armed robberies. Organized gang members, taking advantage of the lack of security, roamed the camp.

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Cumar Cabdirashiid oo loo magacaabay Ra’iisul Wasaaraha cusub ee Soomaaliya

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diimaha. Xarunta Abuu-Hureyra oo dadaal badan u gashay sidii ay arrintan guul uga gaari lahayd ayaa waxay taageero ka heleen qareenka Maraykanka u fadhiyo gobolka Minnesota, Andrew Lugar oo dacwada qayb ka noqday.Shalay ayaa waxa la gaaray hishiis u dhaxeeya Abuu-hureyra, qareenka Maraykanka iyo magaalada St. Anthony Village, kaasoo ay kusoo afjareen xurguftii u dhaxeeyay xarunta Abuu-Hureyra iyo Magaalada St. Anthony.

“Waxan ku faraxsanahay inaan idiin sheego in lasoo af-jaray cadaalad-xumo lagu sameeyay xarunta Abuu-hureyra, maanta waxaa guulaystay xorriyadda diimaha,” ayuu yiri Qareenka Maraykanka, Andrew Lugar oo warbaahinta la hadlay.

Waxaa kaloo goobta ka hadlay Sheekh C/raxmaan Haaguf oo xarunta Abuu-hureyra u hadlayay, isagoo ka hadlay farxadda uu dareemayo wuxuuna yiri. “Xarunta Abuu-hureyra waxay ilaalin doontaa sharuucda iyo wada-shaqayn wanaagsan ee ay la yeelan doonto shacabka

dagan magaalada St. Anthony.”Duqa magaalada St. Anthony, Jerry Faust oo ahaa shaqsigii horay u hor-istaagay mashruucan ayaa isaguna la hadlay warbaahinta isagoo yiri. “Waa inaan arrintan soo af-jarnaa, sannadka 2015-ka waxaanu billaabeenaa waji cusub.”

Si kastaba ha ahaatee, heshiiskan ayaa furaya waji cusub iyo wada-shaqayn dhexmarta muslimiinta Maraykanka ee ku nool xaafadaha magaaladaas ay ka kooban tahay.Dhanka kale, Sadik Warfa oo ah guddoomiye ku xigeenka Global Somali Diaspora oo ka mid ahaa dadkii dacwaddan aadka ula socday qaybna ka qaatay dadaalka loogu jiray difaacidda xarunta Abuu-hureyra ayaa isna yiri. “Maanta waa maalin wanaagsan oo xorriyadda diimaha ayaa guuleystay… dhamaanteen waxaan u nimid in cadaaladda iyo sinnaantu guulaysto.”Qodobbadii lagu Heshiiyay oo afar Qodob ka koobnaa ayaa u qornaa Sidan:

1 . H i s h i i s k a n w u x u u ogalaanayaa in qorshihii xarunta Abuu-hureyra ee ahaa in qayb ka mid ah xarunta ay iibsadeen loo isticmaali karo masaajid Alle lagu caabudo.

2. Magaalada St. Anthony, hayb-sooc kuma sameyn karto xarunta Abuu-hureyra iyo xarumaha diimaha kale

3. Madaxda magaalada St. Anthony kuwa la doorto, maamulayaasha iyo qaybo ka mid ah St. Anthony waxay ka qaybgalayaan barnaamijo wax-barasho oo lagu talo-galay in kor loogu qaado is-fahamka bulshada.

4. Magaalada St. Anthony waxay la socodsiinaysaa bulshada ku nool magaaladaas macluumaadka is-fahamka bulshada.

Si kastaba ha ahaatee, weli waxaa jira caqabad kale oo ah in heshiiskan uu dhaqan-galayo marka ay ansixiyaan golaha deegaanka magaalada St. Anthony. Duqa magaalada ayaa sheegay inaysan taasi wax dhibaato ah lahayn. Maamulka Abuu-hureyra ayaa iyaguna sheegay inay fi layaan in sannadka soo socdo ay xarunta diyaar noqon doonto oo ay jaaliyadda Soomaaliyeed ka faa’iideysan doonaan.

Ugu dambeyn, goobta lagu qabtay shirka jaraa’id ayaa waxaa ku sugnaa qaar ka mid ah culummada Soomaaliyeed ee reer Minnesota, sida Sh. Xasan Jaamici, Sh. Axmed Taajir, Sh. C/salaam Shariif. Sh. Sacad Muse, Sheekh C/raxmaan Haaguf iyo horjoogaha howshan Shiikh Axmed Buraale, waxayna dhamaantood muujiyeen sida ay ugu faraxsan yihiin guusha la gaaray.

Masjidka Abu-Hureyra oo ka guulaystay Magaalada St. Anthony

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ka yimid bogga 1“We felt like our dignity was

taken away,” said Warfa of life in the camp. “We were proud in our country, working and getting quality education.”

Road to the United StateS

After three years in the camps, Warfa and his family eventually arrived in Denver, Colorado, in 1994, thanks to the Church World Services, which arranged the departure through the Family Reunification Process.

Warfa faced alienation and a language barrier when he first arrived in the United States as a teenager. He was one of a few people of color at South High School in Denver — and struggled with the American culture. Indeed, even though he qualified for the free and reduced-price meals, he avoided eating at the school.

“The biggest challenge we encountered was that we came with the perception that any food in America contains pork and alcohol,” he said. “So I didn’t eat there because most of the food, in my mind, had pork or alcohol.”

And he didn’t know enough English to ask about the types of food the school served. So he didn’t eat there for more than a month, he said, feeling isolated and unwanted. “We didn’t feel welcomed. As much as the school administration tried, we still felt lonely and out of place.”

While still new and barely speaking English, Warfa had to find a job so he could contribute to the family’s expenses. Before he learned the meaning of “interview,” Warfa one day was called for a job interview

at McDonald’s. He went to the interview wearing jeans and boots, eager to win a dishwasher position.

When the manager asked him why he was interested in working at McDonald’s, Warfa’s response was swift and honest: “Because I need money.” He got the job.

Sea rch ing fo r Somal i community

Immigration services often assign refugees and immigrants to specific states according to where their sponsors live. In Warfa’s case, his brother, who supported the family, lived in Denver with his wife and children.

After a little over a year, however, Warfa and his family sought a more diverse space, where they could feel a sense of community, a sense of belonging. That led to San Diego, which at that point had the largest Somali population in the country.

Warfa and his family rented two adjacent apartments in City Heights, a neighborhood the San Diego City Council declared a “state of emergency” because of excessive criminal activities, including drugs, shootings and prostitution. But City Heights also had the things the Warfa family longed for: a diverse population of African-Americans, Somalis, Latinos and Hmong.

Tensions between African-American and Somali students

While attending Crawford High School in City Heights, Warfa witnessed melees breaking out between African-American and Somali students — in some cases, as many as 100 people would be involved in the fight, he said.

In his book, Warfa explores the cause of the fights between African-Americans and Somalis: “One would have thought since they have the same origin and color, there would be fewer problems between them,” he writes.“It was argued that African-Americans felt that Somalis didn’t understand the great sacrif ices that

African-Americans had made so that future generations could live in liberty. As far as the African-Americans were concerned, the Somalis seemed to enjoy the freedom with abandon, while they hadn’t contributed in any way to its attainment.”

Yet the many obstacles Warfa faced upon coming to the United States only seemed to strengthen his desire to become a valuable member of the Somali community.

He would eventually go on to get a bachelor’s degree in political science from San Diego State University and a master’s of science in organizational management and leadership from Springfield College. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in public administration at Hamline University, and works for the Eden Prairie-based Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, serving as a program officer.

‘ameRica heRe i come’With the Somali population

increasing in Minnesota and states across the country, Warfa often contemplated ways he could promote cultural understanding between Somali immigrants and their American neighbors.

One of those ways came to fruition in late November, when Warfa published “America Here I Come: A Somali Refugee’s Quest for Hope,” a memoir detailing the swift change that came to his family’s middle-class lifestyle when the civil war broke out in Somalia and the tribulations that followed him in Kenyan refugee camps.

For immigrants, the book is a case study in the value of perseverance. For native-born Minnesotans, the book provides a thorough introduction to the rich history of Somalia — and a wider understanding of the thousands of Somali immigrants who are now part of their community.

Warfa will hold a book-launch event on December 13 at 3 p.m. at the Cowles Auditorium at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

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Abdinasir Abdulahi is now an established immigration attorney, with his Minneapolis law firm, Abdinasir M. Abdulahi, LLC, having become a destination for thousands of East African immigrant clients throughout Minnesota and other states.

“People feel comfortable coming to me with questions that they wouldn’t necessarily bring up to other lawyers,” he said. “That’s because they don’t know the legal system, and they need someone they can relate to, someone they can trust.”

Over the past four years, Abdulahi has earned the trust of many Minnesotans from East Africa through his various legal services. But his path to that success was anything but easy.

a RelUctant lawyeR

Abdulahi was born and raised in Kalafo, Ethiopia, part of a region that has long been the source of conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia. Coming of age in this small border town, some of those conflicts unfolded before his eyes.

Yet despite growing up amid political conflicts and never-ending tensions between the two countries, Abdulahi was always hungry for success. Initially, he was interested in becoming an economist, but the scores he got from the national university placement exam didn’t qualify him to study the subject. “It’s not like here where you plan your own field of education,” he said. “In Ethiopia, you sit for a national test, and then based on the grades you get, you could end up in any field, whether you like it or not.”

So law it was. At first, Abdulahi wasn’t happy with studying the field. But it only took him a few courses before he started to develop a deep interest.

After graduating from law school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when he was in his 20s, Abdulahi was appointed to become judge of a Kalafo court. Four months later, he was promoted to the

region’s chief justice of the state.

coming to minneSota Abdulahi wasn’t the chief

justice he wished to be, however. Government officials gave him orders on how to handle cases — orders he had to follow or face harsh consequences. “I was the chief of justice of the entire state,” he said. “I had the same power as the governor, but I could barely do anything. I wasn’t independent.”

So Abdulahi decided to pursue opportunities elsewhere. He had enjoyed the legal service and courtrooms. But he also wanted to do what he felt was the right thing — he hated to answer to government officials and base his decisions on their will.

In 2001, an opportunity presented itself: The Ethiopian government sent Abdulahi to the United States for a law seminar. He would be among judges and prosecutors from more than 20 countries around the world.

When he landed in the United States, though, Abdulahi didn’t go to the conference. He requested asylum.

a c h a l l e n g i n g tRanSition

Six months after his arrival in the United States, Abdulahi was granted asylum. He delighted to have been granted the protection, but the transition process was a challenge. “It was really difficult,” he said. “One day you’re an official of a state. And the next day, you’re trying to find where to live and what to do. You don’t even know how to find your way around.”

Despite his experience in the law field, Abdulahi ended up working at Wells Fargo, where he did filing and other miscellaneous duties. He split his paycheck between himself and his family in Africa. “Life was tough at the time,” Abdulahi said. “But at least, I was happy mentally and emotionally.”

One thing was clear to Abdulahi: facing shelves and files

every morning wasn’t something he wanted to do forever. And since his law degree from Addis Ababa and experience couldn’t translate into a decent job in Minnesota, he knew he had to go back to school.

So in 2002, Abdulahi attended the University of Minnesota Law School, completing a yearlong Master of Laws program. A year later, he transferred to William Mitchell College of Law so that he could work and go to law school full-time.

Abdulahi graduated from law school in 2009. A year later, after passing the bar exam, he opened his own law firm.

Four years later, AMA stands on Franklin Avenue and 11th Street, and its three attorneys serve thousands of people — mostly immigrants — throughout Minnesota and other states.

Abdulahi is one of a few people in the East African community who are practicing attorneys, an example of success and inspiration. But when Abdulahi goes to some courts to represent clients, judges don’t often recognize him as a lawyer, he said. “Somalis or even other [minority groups] were not used to being attorneys,” Abdulahi said. “They would ask me, ‘Are you the interpreter?’”

Despi te such remarks , Abdulahi keeps a positive attitude, which he said has contributed to his success. “We’re blessed in America and also in the state of Minnesota,” he said. “It’s no accident that a lot of Somalis are here; a lot of East Africans are here.”

“This country offers many opportunities,” he said. “I’m a lawyer now. I was blessed to be a member of the Bar, which is highly regulated. My peers and other members of the Bar were really helpful. Without them, I wouldn’t do it. There are people who would disappoint you. But there are many others who would accept and support of you.”

Ururka Isu-taga Jaaliyadda Soomaaliyeed ee gobolka Minneota CSCM ayaa xusay sanad-guuradii 20-aad ee kasoo wareegtay markii uu adeeg-giisa billaabay sannadkii 1994-kii markaas oo ahayd markii ugu horreysay ee Soomaalidu degto Minnesota.

Xuska ururkan oo ay goobjoog ka ahaayeen dad badan ayaa looga hadlay waxyabihii uu Soomaalida Minnesota u qabtay ururkan kuwaasoo laga xusay inuu shaqo geeyo dadka ku cusub gobolka, waxbarashada,

b a r a a j i n t a c a a f i m a a d k a , caddeymaha waraaqaha dadka is-dhalay, caddeynta qofka inuu Soomaali yahay, arrimaha dhallinyarada iyo xoojinta I sboor t iga dha l l i nya rada Soomaalida ah ee Minnesota.

Munaasabadda ayaa waxaa ka hadlay Maxamed Xuseen Fariid oo ka mid ah aasaasayashii

ururkan, isagoo sheegay inay keentay baahi loo qabay uuna soo maray ururku marxalado intuu jiray oo 20-sano ah, kaasoo

ahaa sida uu xusay xafiiskii ugu horreeyay ee u shaqeeya dadweyne Soomaaliyeed oo u baahnaa xilligaas cid wax u qabata; iyagoo ka minaayay gobolladii dib u dejinta loo geeyay markii Mareykanka la keenay.

Sidoo kale, Raaxo Warsame oo ka mida guddiga maamula ururkaan ayaa u mahad-celisay dadkii gacanta siiyay ururka CSCM, sida dhallinyaradii habka iskaa-wax-u-qabsada ah ku shaqeynayay iyo hawl-wadeennada ururka, iyadoo xustay inay ka mid ahayd xubnihii muddada 16-ka sano ahayd wax qabadkoodu uusan ku ekeyn waxyaabaha iyaga loo qoondeeyay, balse ku dadaalay inay qabtaan shaqooyin dheerad u ah sida la-talinta iyo inay u turjumaan dadka cusub,

Raaxo waxay ka warbixisay waxyabahii ugu dambeeyay ee uu xafiiskoodu u qabtay Soomaalida waxayna xustay inay ka mid yihiin u dagaalanka inaysan xawilaaduhu xirmin, welina ay u taagan yihiin ka jibbo-keenidda arrintaas.

Dhanka kale, guddoomiyaha ururka Maxamud Nuur ayaa abaalmarino guddoonsiiyay qaar ka mid ah shaqsiyaadkii sida aadka ah ula shaqeeyay CSCM muddadii uu jiray iyo kuwo si guud wax ugu qabtay horumarinta J a a l i y a d d a S o o m a a l i d a ee Minneso ta ; waxaana dadkii abaalmarinnadaas la guuddoonsiiyay ka mid ahaa; Cabdirisaaq Biixi, Inj. Jabriil

Afyare, C/raxmaan Kaahin, C/baasid Abdul, Salma Xussein oo arrimaha dhallinyarada aad uga shaqaysa, masjidka Darul-Hijra, masjidka Imaam Shaafici, ururka waaliddiinta carruurta Autism-ka iyo xubno ka tirsan maamulka iskuullada ay dhallinyarada Soomaaliyeed wax ka bartaan.

Sheekh C/salaam Shariif ayaa isna ka sheekeeyay aasaaska ururkan oo ku beegnaa xilli uu wali qoyan yahay dagaalkii sokeeye ee dalkeena ka socday; waxuuna sheegay inay ahayd mid aad u adag in xilligaa dad Soomaaliyeed ay wax ku midoobaan; laakiin ururkan uu lagu midoobay, iyadoo ay hoggaan u ahaayeen aqoonyahanno Soomaaliyeed, waxqabadka ururkaana cid walba way ka dheregsan tahay.

Ugu dambeyn , waxaa goobta lagu daawaday filim ka sheekeynaya taariikhdii & waxqabad ururkaa CSCM muddadii uu jiray ee 20-ka sano

ahayd, iyadoo filimka ay ka muuqdeen saddexdii guddoomiye ee ururka soo mara oo kala ahaa; Cali Saciid (Cali Nac-nac), Dr. Saciid Faahiye iyo sidoo kale guddoomiyaha hadda ee ururka, Maxamuud Nuur.

A long and winding path to the law for one Minneapolis immigration attorney

CSCMN oo Xustay Sannad Guuradii 20 ee ka soo wareegtay markii la aasaasay

by: ibrahim hirsi, minnPost

Qore: siyaad saCiid saalax, tusmo times

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Ra’isul wasaare Cumar Cabdarashiid Cali ayaa waxa uu sheegay sida ugu dhaqsiyaha badan in uu u soo dhisi doono Xukuumad tayo leh oo uu kala tashanayo madaxweynaha, guddoonka baarlamaanka, iyo vildhibaannada xukuumadaasi oo uu tilmaamay in dalka ay ka samata bixin doonto dhibaatada uu ku jiro, wuxuuna rajo wanaagsan uu ka muujiyay in xukuumadaasi ay la imaan

doonto Waxqabad buuxa oo dadka ay mahdiyaan.

Sidoo kale ra’isul wasaarahe Cumar Cabdirashiid ayaa tilmaamay in uu wax ka qaban doono arrima la xiriira horumarinta dalka sida sugida ammaanka, iyo gaarsiinta dalka Dowladnimada taa oo uu tilmaamay in ay tahay mida lagu xoojin karo Dowladnimada.

Ra’iisul wasaaraha cusub oo 54 jir ah ayaa dhashay 19-kii

June ee sanadkii 1960, waxaana 13-kii February sanadkii 2009-ka loo magacaabay in uu noqdo Ra’iisul wasaarahad dowladdii KMG aheyd ee uu Madaxweynaha ka ahaa Sheekh Shariif Sheekh Axmed, iyadoo xilka iska casilay 21-kii September sanadkii 2010, markii isaga iyo Madaxweynaha uu khilaaf soo kala dhex galay.

Mudane Cumar Cabdirashiid oo ahaa Safiirkii Mareykanka

u fadhiyay Soomaaliya ayaa noqonaya ra’iisul wasaarihii 3aad oo uu magacaabo Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka ah ee Soomaaliya mudane Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud labo sano gudahood oo ah mudadiid uu xilka madaxweyne hayey, isaga oo xilka loo doortay sanadkii 2012.

Photos: Radio Mogadishu

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LEWISTON — It’s been five years since Rilwan Osman, a Somali Bantu immigrant, co-founded the Somali Bantu Youth Association of Maine, a nonprofit organization that helps immigrant children and families succeed in school and in the community.

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accomplishments, the association is inviting people to an end-of-the-year celebration and fundraising from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18.

Osman and other staffers, volunteer students and their parents will illustrate their work. The association provides classes for adults to learn English and to become U.S. citizens. It offers tutoring for students, as well as soccer leagues, summer enrichment programs and an annual juvenile justice workshop, in which judges and police officers explain the legal system.

Osman used to work as a

translator at Longley Elementary School. Former Longley Principal Linda St. Andre called Osman a great role model and said the association helps students and families adjust to a new culture.

“He goes about things so quietly, but he’s doing such big things,” St. Andre said.

One of the first Sun Journal stories on Osman was published in 2008. It was about how he and his mother were reunited in Lewiston with Colby College professor Catherine Besteman, who 20 years before had done research in their East African village.

The last time Osman saw his father was in 1996. Osman, then 12, was running with his mother to escape rebels who captured their Somali Bantu village. The rebel soldiers ordered his father and other men into a river, where a crocodile had a woman in its teeth. The soldiers used the villagers as bait, hoping they’d distract the crocodile so it would release the woman, who was one of their own.

Osman said his father was killed. He’s not sure how.

Life in their village was primitive. Many weren’t literate. There was no electricity, no

schools. People lived by farming. After escaping to Kenya and living in a refugee camp for 10 years, Osman came to the United States in 2005.

Since then, he has graduated from college, held a number of jobs, including school interpreter, and has volunteered to help others in his ethnic community.

In 2008, he and Jama Mohamed founded the Somali Bantu Youth Association from their van after noticing that too many youths had started smoking and were getting into fights and committing crimes. Having arrived with little education,

some youths were discouraged and dropped out of school.

The organization grew. It began offering classes for adults, including money management.

Ear l ier th is year . the association went from being a volunteer community group to a professional nonprofit, offering case management for mental health services.

Contracted through MaineCare, the association employs Osman, four case managers and several part-time workers.

The Somali Bantu Youth Association and Family Center is at 57 Birch St.

Some 10,000 Somali refugees living in eastern Kenya’s dadaab refugee camp are expected to be repatriated within six months

Some 120 Somali refugees living in Kenya were repatriated back to their native Somalia on Thursday, from which they had fled two decades ago following the outbreak of civil war.

“The convoy is made up of three buses escorted by security personnel from either country [Kenya or Somali] until they reach their destination,” UNHCR

spokesman Emmanuel Nyabera told The Anadolu Agency.

Each voluntary returnee was

given $100 to meet their travel needs.

Returning refugees will be

settled in Kismayo and Baidoa, two Somali cities that are now relatively peaceful. They are expected to arrive to their destinations by Saturday.

“Upon arriving, we help them settle down and start new lives,” Nyabera said.

The UNHCR spokesman said it was the second group of Somali refugees to return home.

Last week, some 100 Somali refugees living in Kenya became the first to be repatriated back to the war-torn country after more than two decades of civil war.

A total of 10,000 Somali

refugees living in eastern Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp are expected to be repatriated within six months.

Areas of Somalia that have been declared safe for the returnees include Luq, Baidoa and Kismayo, all of which were liberated from Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militant group in recent years.

The recent raft of repatriations follow an agreement signed between the UNHCR, Kenya and Somalia in November of last year aimed at ensuring that all repatriations were voluntary

in nature.Kenya is home to more than

460,000 Somali refugees who since 1991 had fled the troubled Horn of Africa country.

Somalia has remained in the grip of on-again, off-again violence since the outbreak of civil war in 1991.

Earlier this year, the country had appeared to inch closer to stability after government troops and African Union forces – deployed in the country since 2007 – drove the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab group from most of its strongholds.

Dha l l inyaro badan oo Soomaaliyeed ayaa ugu biira al-Shabaab sababta oo ah lagama wacyigalin halista koxda iyo afkaarteeda qalloocan, ayay hay’adaha warbaahinta

Soomaaliya ka sheegeen shir ka dhacay Muqdisho todobaadkii hore halkaas oo ballan-qaadeen in ay dadaal xooggan ka gaysan doonaan la-dagaallanka afkaarta xagjirnimo.

Intii uu socday shir maalin qaatay oo 23-kii November ka dhacay Muqdisho uuna soo qabanqaabiyay Midawga Q a r a n k a S a x a f i y i i n t a Soomaaliya (NUSOJ), Ururka X a r u m a h a W a r b a a h i n t a Soomaaliya (SIMHA) iyo Xarunta Wacyigalinta Bulshada (CCA), ayay wakiillo ka kala socda saxaafadda, bulshada rayidka ah iyo xukuumaddu uga wadahadleen sida ay saxafiyiintu gacan uga gaysan karaan istaajinta faafitaanka aydiyoolajiyadda colaadda xambaarsan isla markaana asaaska ugu dhigi lahaayeen dib-u-heshiisiinta Soomaaliya.

“Sida aan ognahay, dalkeena

waxaa ku sii faafaysa xagjirnimo, gaar ahaan dhailnyarada,” ayuu yiri agaasimaha CCA Maxamed Ibraahim Cali. “Marka, waxaan rabnaa in aan la dagaallanno al-Shabaab, al-Qaacidda iyo cid walba oo ka soo horjeedda dowladnimada Soomaaliya.”

“Xagjirnimada Soomaaliya w a x a a y b a a b i ’ i s a y bulshadeenna,” ayuu u sheegay Sabahi. “Waxa ay laysay aqoonyahankii, waxgaradki iyo qof walba oo bulshadeenn wax u tari lahaa, marka waxaan u aqoonsannahay in fikirka xagjirka ah uu cadow ku yahay dalka, dadka iyo diintaba.”

Shirka waxa looga gollahaa in lagu aruuriyo aaraada ka qayb-galayaasha ee ku aaddan qaababka wax looga qaban karo xagjirnimada isla markaana loo xoojin lahaa wacyigalinta ku aaddan qaddiyadahaas, ayuu sheegay Cali.

“Waxa ugu muhiimsan waa in la helaa istiraatijiyad lagula dagaallamo xagjirnimada iyo fikradaha dagaalka ku dhisan iyo in la helo isbeddel dhab ah oo ku saabsan nabad soo dabaalid iyo wada noolaasho,” ayuu yiri. “Intaas oo dhan waxaan isla garannay in lagu gaari karo, iyada oo warbaahinta loo marayo, waana sababta aan hadda u doranay in aan wacyigalinta ka billawno hay’adaha saxaafadda

ka shaqeeya.”Haddii ay dhallinyaro badan

oo Soomaali ah ku biireen al-Shabaab, al-Qaacida ama Dawladda Islaamiga ah ee Ciraaq iyo Mashriqa Carbeed (ISIL) taas waxaa qayb ahaan loo tirin karaa sida y warbaahintu ugu guul-darreeysatay in ay bannaanka u soo saaraan khuraafaadka afkaarta kooxahaas isla markaana ay dadweynaha u sameeyaan wacyigalin, ayuu sheegay Cali.

Waa sababtaas tan xirfadlayda warbaahintu ay hadda u go’aansadeen in ay kaalin intii hore ka firfircoon ka qaataan dagaalka lagula jiro xagjirnimada, ayuu sheegay.

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“Waddan walba oo horumar sameeyay waxa uu horumarkiisa ka soo bilaabanayaa saxaafadda,” ayuu yiri Cali, oo intaa raaciyay in ay jiri doonaan shirar dheeri ah iyo tababarro loo sameeyo saxafiyiinta iyo sidoo kale dhall inyarada Soomaalida. “Waxan garoowsannay in aan qof walba oo Soomaali ah ku gaari karno warbaahinta.”

Guddoomiyaha SIMHA Xasan Cali Geeseey ayaa sheegay in ururkiisu, oo ah dallad ay ku midaysan yihiin 32 hay’ad warbaahineed, ayaa

soo dhaweeyay dadaallada loogu jiro xoojinta kaalinta saxaafaddu ka qaadato la-dagaallanka argagixisada.

Khatarta ugu weyn waxay ka imanaysaa al-Shabaab iyo al-Qaacida, ayuu yiri, isaga oo xusay in qaar kamida warbaahintu ay sii daayaan hadallo si toos ah uga yimaada hoggaamiyayaasha kooxahaas.

“Anaga waxaan rabnaa marka ay xagjirinta dhibaato gaystaan in aan la buun buunin,” ayuu Geeseey u sheegay Sabahi. “Dhinaca kele, waxan rabnaa in la xoojiyo lana tabiyo horumarka socda ee laga samaynayo dib-u-dhiska iyo nabadda.”

“Tababaro ayaan samaynaynaa oo lagu xoojinayo dawrka dhalinyarada iyo warbaahinta ee dib u dhiska dalka,” ayuu yiri.

Intii uu socday shirkku ayay wakiillada warbaahintu isku raaceen in aan xagjirnimada la siin fursad ay ku faafiyaan afkaartooda baddalan, la kashifo oo lagu maadaysto warbixinnada beenta ah ee al-Shabaab, isla markaana loo ololeeyo nabadda iyo dib-u-dhiska, ayuu sheegay Geeseey.

“Cabsi badan ayaa ka dhex jirta warbaahinta, laakiin waa bilow fiican in xaqiiqda la fahmo,” ayuu yiri.

“Anaga dhan xagjiriinta dil ayaan ugu xukumannahay, marka

waa in aanan sugin inta lanaga dilayo,” ayuu yiri. “Waa in aan dhiirrannaa oo la horumariyo la-dagaalanka xajirnimada.”

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Saxafiga madaxa-bannaan ee Abuukar Maxamed ayaa sheegay in si loo sii wado horumarka ay muhiim tahay in warbaahintu u midawdo wax walba oo halis ku ah mustaqbalka Soomaaliya.

“Arimahaas oo dhan waxa ay keeni karaan in aan saxaafadda la marsiin waxyaabo bulshada khalkhal galin kara sida farriimaha ay so dirayaan dadka gudbinaya naceybka iyo xagjirnimada, iyo kuwa ku hanjabaya in ay wax dilayaan, waxna burburinayaan,” ayuu Maxamed u sheegay Sabahi. “Waxaa sidoo kale dadaalladan looga baahanyahay in ay ka qeyb qaataan, odeyaasha, culimada diinta, haweenka iyo bulshada qeybaheeda kala duwan.”

Si loola diriro xagjirnimada, waa in sidoo kale wax laga qabtaa qaddiyadaha ku meeraysan ee shaqo la’aanta dhallinyarada, ayuu sheegay Maxamed, maaddaama ay caddaalad darro ballaaran ka jirto sida shaqaalaha loo qoro.

“Marka la joogo hay’adaha dawladda, shaqaalaysi inta waxa ay ku xirantahay aqoonta

loo leeyahay qofka hay’addaas mas’uulka ka ah. Waxaa shaqada helaya qofka ugu dhaw oo ma jrto caddaalad” ayuu yiri. “Taasi waxa ay keenaysaa in ay dhirrigaliso in qofkii shaqada lagu hagraday uu ku biiro xagjiriinta ama in uu ka qeyb qaato dhibaataynta hay’addii shaqada looga diiday.”

Xagjirnimadu kaliya kuma eka kooxaha sida al-Shabaab iyo al-Qaacida, ayuu sheegay Liibaan Cabdi Cali, oo ah saxafi la shaqeeya Alhurra TV, balse ay jirto xagjirnimo kale oo la xiriirta gobolaysi iyo qabyaalad.

“Waxaa muhiimad in la siiyo u baahan dadka ay ku wayntahay qabiilka ama gobolka, iyaga oo taa ka door bidaya danta guud ee qaranka,” ayuu u sheegay Sabahi. “Waxyaabaha aan ku talinnay waxaa kamid ahaa in arimahaas oo dhan dhalinyarada laga wacyi galiyo, haba ugu darnaato arimaha la xiriira mayal adeegnimada diinta.”

Liibaan waxa uu ugu baaqay saxafiyiinta kale in ay ka shaqeeyaan sidii loo horumarin lahaa Soomaaliya, isaga oo sheegay in kaalinta warbaahinta ay aad muhiim ugu tahay taariikhda uu dalku marayo.

120 Somali refugees head home from Kenya

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At first glance, the new Sisterhood Boutique on Riverside Avenue next door to Augsburg College and the University of Minnesota’s West Bank campus looks like many other spunky

startups around town.It’s packed with racks of

blouses, jackets, dresses, slacks and shorts, displays of boots, shoes and jewelry, shelves of purses and bags, a vase of sunflowers and scarves hanging on the walls. The selection ranges in style from contemporary to retro to East African. This is clearly the work of women who have applied their talents to transform an empty storefront into a destination for shoppers looking for fashions at affordable prices.

All true. But there’s more to the Sisterhood story, which defies all the usual expectations. It was started by group of young Somali women who noticed how much fun their brothers and male classmates had running a coffee shop at the Brian Coyle Community Center in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood.

“We felt like there were not a lot of activities for girls in the community,” remembers Khadra Fiqi, an assistant at the store who was a Minneapolis South High School student at the time. “So we had a meeting of girls to talk about what we wanted to do. There’s a strength in girls and

we wanted to do something for our community to create more opportunity.”

They agreed to start a women’s clothing store, and quickly came up with the name Sisterhood

of the Traveling Scarf, based partly on the movie and novel “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” And based partly on the fact that, as Fiqi says, “scarves are something that unite all women, and we are a sisterhood of women.”

“We went around to other stores to see what businesses are like,” recalls Fiqi, now a first-year student at Metro State University, “and we learned a lot about commitment — if you’re committed to something you can make it happen. Women with passion and power can help ourselves and help our community.”

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Fiqi explains that she and her colleagues do everything it takes to run the business, “from sorting the clothes, tagging them, cleaning the store, being at the front as a cashier. I always thought of myself as a science person, not a business person. But now I am going to minor in business in college.”

The experience of opening the store helped Fiqi feel more at home in Minneapolis. “I

was really surprised about all the support from people we don’t really know — people at Augsburg College and around the community.”

S t e l l a R i c h a r d s o n , a

management major at Augsburg,

was one of those who pitched into help launch the boutique. While still in high school, she had started the Express Yourself Clothing store on Selby Avenue in St. Paul as part of an after-school youth program. “I told the girls about my experience and came to their meetings. As they

were opening the store, I taught some business classes to them at the Brian Coyle Center.”

“They asked all the same questions I was asking when I started my store,” Richardson says. She notes that their boutique was even funded by one of the same organizations that financed her business, Sundance Family Foundation. Other funders of the Sisterhood Boutique were Augsburg College, Fairview

Health Services, Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, the Marbrook Foundation and the Women Investing in the Next Generation (WINGs) Fund of the Greater Twin Cities United Way.

Augsburg students helped them devise a business plan, implement a marketing plan and design a logo, and offered informal advice on how to attract young customers studying and working on the nearby campuses of Augsburg, the U of M, St. Catherine University and the University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital.

“The store is changing the way the community perceives girls — in Somali culture girls are the most protected part of the community,” says Amano Dube, director of the Brian Coyle

Community Center. “This project shows what they can do on their own.”

a bReaKthRoUghDube said that when a group

of local leaders involved with the Faith in the City initiative toured the neighborhood

— including Rulon Stacey, CEO of Fairview Health Services, which owns a brick storefront on Riverside Avenue that is adjacent to its University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital — “Augsburg President Paul Pribbenow brought them to the Brian Coyle Center and I took them into the leadership training class with the young people, who told them about the store.”

“ M a r y L a u r e l T r u e [Augsburg’s d i rec tor of c o m m u n i t y e n g a g e m e n t ] was leading the tour, and she suddenly announces that the girls would really like to have that building on Riverside Avenue,” remembers Pribbenow. Twenty-four hours later the president of Fairview called Pribbenow and said the boutique could have the building for free.

“We had the space available,” Stacey says, “and want to be a meaningful partner in the neighborhood. We’re really excited about it.”

Stacey was on hand at the boutique’s Grand Opening last summer, posing for a photo with the young proprietors in front of shop windows artfully displaying sundresses. Indeed, it was an all-out community event.

Amano Dube, Mary Laurel True, Stella Richardson and a number of young shoppers were part of the celebration.

“I’m really excited about it,” said shopper Elena Eveslage. “It’s a good place to get good, cheap clothes, and a great opportunity for young women

to learn business skills.”

20 tRained So FaRFadumo Mohamed, a student

at Minneapolis Southwest High School, was part of planning meetings and jumped at the chance to work at the store. “This is my first real job. It’s really good here, getting closer to people in the community, working with people my own age, learning about business. It will all be on my résumé.”

Store manager Laurine Chang, who is also a youth social entrepreneur coordinator for Pillsbury United Communities, notes that 20 young women have been trained so far to work in the store. For three months they “learn about leadership, empowerment, personal and professional development, how to engage in the community, financial literacy, customer service, time management and business management.”

“The girls themselves felt there was a need for more opportunities for women in the neighborhood,” Chang says. “This project really is young people taking the initiative by responding to what the community needs.”

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S O M A L I L A N D — Deve lopment economis t s debate whether institutions or infrastructure is more important for a nation’s development. Edna Adan, a retired Somali politician has done both, by building Somaliland’s first proper hospital and working to train a new generation of medical professionals. At 76 years of age, Edna Adan has more energy than a woman half her age. The nurse-turned-U.N.- diplomat-turned-former foreign minister of Somaliland retired in order to launch the Edna Adan Hospital in Hargeisa, which aims to provide competent medical care for those living in the region. She’s been likened a “Muslim Mother Teresa” and has received the French Legion of Honor. Edna Adan sold her car and poured her life savings into turning a former landfill into one of the better hospitals in rural Somalia that has a fraction of the mortality rates elsewhere in the country. Born the daughter of a Somali doctor, she was afforded opportunities that many of the other residents of British Somaliland were not. She didn’t hesitate in seizing them, becoming the first woman to get a driver’s license and the first woman to become a nurse. She married the first prime minister of Somaliland, and through the post, met many world leaders. An image on the wall behind the desk in her modest office shows a meeting between the heads of the United States and Somalia. In the photo, she is seen standing next to then U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson.

Yet, her life took a turn for the worse when Siad Biarre, a Somali military officer seized the country and imposed a cruel form of communism. “I was arrested several times, thrown in jail and spent some six months under house arrest subject to random searches “because

I wasn’t a communist,” she explains. I was called an anti-revolutionary, a capitalist pig, an imperialist stooge, and a foreign agent – and they punished me. So when I got my passport back in 1975, I fled. With her medical training and language skills she worked at WHO and pretty soon had a career at WHO focusing on Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and Afghanistan. She briefly worked in Libya under King Idris.

Her retirement would have a second consequence. She long dreamed of building a hospital in Mogadishu but, before it was finished in the early 1980s a civil war broke out. “I have deeds and documents, of course, but it means little when someone uses force. I haven’t been back to Mogadishu to see it, but I heard that when the Americans were there for “Operation: Restore Hope,” the hospital was rented to the marines as a container storage depot.” The failed venture cost her over $100,000 - money that could have helped with her current project.

After retirement, she did a stint in Somaliland politics, where she briefly parlayed her experience as a WHO diplomat to become foreign minister of the breakaway region. She even had to fund some of the operations of the ministry herself. Despite the struggle, she remains adamant that the Somaliland separatist path has been vindicated, “I think Somaliland is better today. It is still unrecognized internationally as a separate country, but we’re doing far better unrecognized and stable than Somalia is doing as a recognized, yet unstable, country. Yes, recognition has brought them international aid money to loot and license, but it hasn’t taught them how to govern a country. Meanwhile, we in Somaliland have pulled ourselves up by our boot straps.”

Yet it is medicine, not politics

which is her real passion, and upon returning to Somaliland, she sold her car and began planning for the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital University, “The plan was always a maternity hospital but the reality has dictated that there is much more needed than a maternity hospital. It is now a general hospital: there are very often more male patients than female patients.”

She also opened a small university on the higher floors of her hospital to train Somaliland’s next generation of medical staff. “There are not enough trained health workers in the county,” she laments, while Somaliland has thousands of colleges and institutes in English. She focuses on quality, while the first year had 150 students in the first year and 180 in the second year, she also puts a premium on making sure that instruction is given in English, the international language of medicine. “I’m not going to say every single word in any given lecture is in English,” but “Edna checks in on the classes frequently to make sure educational standards are maintained” a visiting doctor at the hospital explains.

In December 2013, 42 students graduated from the hospital, a step toward Edna’s goal to educate 1,000 midwives in Somaliland (she is still roughly 800 away from that target she explains). The UNFPA has been vital in helping her fulfill this dream, and have helped fund three classes. You look at the map of Somaliland, and there are vast areas where no midwives operate. She travels frequently to draw attention to her cause: in New York to meet with people in the U.N. or traveling the continent from Gabon in West Africa to neighboring Ethiopia to spread the message. “This hospital is a small step but we’re moving in the right direction,” she said.

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Barkhad Abdi of “Captain Phillips” will be back in the big screen in 2015. The Somali actor who became a star last year thanks to his role in the Oscar Best Picture nominee, and nominations he has received himself in major award shows this year, will be starring in a military thriller titled “Eye in the Sky.” His co-stars include Helen Mirren.The first still from “Eye in the Sky,” featuring Abdi has already been released.do that looks like a smartphone.

Another still from the military thriller shows Helen Mirren in full military uniform in what seems to be a command center.“Eye in the Sky” is an action movie about a drone mission whose goal effectively changed because of new findings about their target. The synopsis of the film is noted below as written in Wikipedia:“Colonel Katherine Powell (Mirren) leads a secret drone mission to capture a terrorist group living in a safehouse in Nairobi, Kenya. When Powell

learns that the group plans to carry out a suicide attack, her objective is changed to kill the terrorists. Drone pilot Steve Watts (Paul) targets the safehouse for destruction but reports a nine-year-old girl entering the kill zone. Powell contacts politicians and lawyers to determine whether or not to take action.”According to Empire Online, the films focuses on the conundrum and challenges that the film explores.“When the team discovers that

their targets are planning a suicide mission, the targets are marked for death instead. Then, just as pilot Steve Watts (Paul) is set to destroy the safe house, he spots a nine year-old girl entering the kill zone and must pass the request for confirmation of the next step up to the highest levels, including our own foreign secretary (Glen).”Based on its IMDB profile, “Eye in the Sky” is currently on post-production. It is directed by Gavin Hood and was filmed in South Africa.

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Naadiga heysta horyaalnimada dalka Soomaaliya ee Banadir Sports Club ayaa shaqaaleysiiyay macalin u dhashay dalka Kenya, kaddib markii Naadiga laga ceyriyay macalinkii hore Cumar Maxamed Naasir kaddib guul darrooyin is xig xigay.

Macalinka cusub oo lagu magacaabo John Maura ayaa habeenkii Salaasada waxaa uu heshiis hal sano ah la saxiixday guddoomiyaha nadiga Abuukar Maxamed Sheeikh waxaana uu heshiisku ka dhacay magaalada Nairobi.

Macalinka cusub ayaa lagu wadaa in magaalada Muqdisho uu soo gaaro maalinta Jimcaha ee inasoo aadan.

“Mudada heshiiska aanu galnay waa hal sano, waana la cusbooneysiin karaa heshiiskaas hadii aanu muhiim u aragno in

macalinku nalasii joogo”ayuu war saxaafadeeduu soo saaray ku sheegay guddoomiyaha naadiga

Abuukar Maxamed Sheekh.Guddoomiye Abuukar ayaa

sheegay in maamulka naadigu

uu go’an ku gaaray in la ceyriyo macalinkii hore kaddib markii guul darooyin is daba joog ahi

ay naadiga soo wajaheen uuna naadigu waayay koobabkii General Daa’uud iyo Supper Cup-ka oo jimcihii ina dhaaftay la cayaaray.

“Hanti fara badan ayaan gelinay naadiga, waxaan ahayn dadkii ugu horeeyay ee lasoo wareegay cayaaryahano badan oo ajaanib ah, waxaana qorsheheenu ahaa in koobab badan aanu qaadno, laakin taasi ma dhicin oo badalkeeda guul darrooyin ayaa yimid”ayuu yiri guddoomiye Abuukar Maxamed Sheekh.

Waxaauu guddoomiyuhu sheegay in kubada cagtu ay tahay guul, bar bar dhac iyo guul darro intaba, laakin iyaga ay u cuntami weysay inay sii eegtaan macalinka oo guul darrooyin is daba joog ah lasoo gudboonaadeen.

Naadiga Banadir Sports Club

ayaa dib u qoray taariikh hore kaddib markii horyaalka dalka ay ku guuleysteen iyadoo aan marna dhincooda dhulka la dhigin.

Guul noocaas oo kale ah waxaa dalka ugu dambeysay sanaku markuu ahaa 1956-kii xiligaas oo naadigii Aurtobarka (Gaadiidka) uu horyaalka ku guuleystay iyadoo aan marna laga badain.

Naadiga Banadir ayaa kaddib loo aqoonsaday dib u qorayaasha tariikhdii hore. Si kasaba ha ahaatee macalinka cusub John Maura ayaa noqonaya macalinkii ugu horeeyay ee naadi heerka 1-aad ah hogaamiya dalka Soomaaliya muddo ku dhawaad 30 sanadood ah.

THE PRESIDENT of Djibouti Football Federation Souleiman Hassan Waberi has on Sunday presented football equipment to football clubs in the country, as part of the FDF efforts to

encourage the growth of football in Djibouti.

Some 36 soccer clubs have benefitted from the generous donation by the Federation which was mainly intended as a moral

boost for the clubs who have no sponsors, but only depend on small local contributions and the federation’s assistance.

“Today we are presenting this equipment to our clubs

to encourage and help them continue the good job they have been doing to promote football in Djibouti---we are obliged to assist the clubs since they have no sponsors and are

committed to this beautiful game” Djibouti FA president Souleiman Hassan Waberi said during the distribution ceremony on Sunday.

The president said that some of the equipment was donated to his federation by world football’s governing body FIFA, while the rest came from the Yemeni Football Association with which the Djibouti FA has very close cooperative relations.

“Djibouti is a small and under developed country, but we are committed to this kind of game and I hope we will reach our target” President Souleiman Hassan Waberi said during his

speech on Sunday.Meanwhile, the president said

that women’s football teams and the national U 17 squad will receive such donation next week.

Since president Souleiman came to power on 10 November 2012, football in Djibouti has made big changes of development including the revival of women’s league, the creation of beach soccer in the country, ensuring players and other football volunteers and many other major approaches.

In what was one of the most zealous matches in Somalia’s recent history, one of the

country’s oldest football clubs, Jeenyo United has made a major approach since they were revived in 2012 after they won the Somali Supper cup.

In Friday’s hotly-contested match that attracted tens of thousands of fans from various

destinations in the country, Jeenyo United beat their Banadir Sports Club rivals by 5-4 in penalties after the normal time ended in 2-2 draw.

Sponsored by the country’s largest Network provider Hormuud Telecom, the match

was played at Banadir Stadium which was redecorated by FIFA last the year.

Somali Football Federation president Abdiqani Said Arab

who addressed at the closing ceremony of the 2014 supper cup match thanked Hormuud Telecom for taking the decision to encourage football promotion in the country.

“Football is now booming in Somalia and i t gives

me a great pleasure to see Hormuud Telecom having full involvement in football and on the behalf of Somali Football Federation I am fully lauding for such constructive decision by Hormuud Telecom” SFF

President Abdiqani Said Arab told the media during his speech.

“I also would like to welcome Coca-Cola branch in Somalia and Salam Bank for joining hands with us in the promotion of Football in Somalia” the president continued to say.

The president said that the role played by local media in covering Somali Football activities in the country and the greater cooperation they developed with SFF media department were hugely appreciated.

The supper cup trophy was the second major success for Jeenyo United since they rejoined into Somali football platform early in 2014. So far the club won the country’s General Da’ud cup this year.

The supper cup is always contested by the league winners and the winners of General Da’ud cup. Banadir Sports Club’s young player Ga’al Farah has been crowned as the man of the Supper cup match.

Founded in 1948, Jeenyo United FC disappeared in the aftermath of the collapse of Somalia in 1991, but they were revived in March 2012, several weeks before the death of former Somali FA president Said Mahmoud Nur, who on March 11, 2012 welcomed the old club into the field of football after more than two decades of absence.

Naadiga Banadir oo shaqaaleysiiyay Macalin Kenyan ah

Djibouti FA distributes sports equipment to its stakeholders

First supper cup trophy for Jeenyo since its revival

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MANGO CHICKeN CuRRyfrom a Somali kitchen in

MinneapolisChef Jamal Hashi, co-owner

(with his brother Sade Hashi) of Safari Express East African Restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota says: “I owe it to the Italians that I make a great marinara.” Hashi was born and raised in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, and immigrated to the US with his family as a teenager.

Hashi says that Somali cuisine has been shaped by diverse influences over centuries and that it is fusion that makes the cuisine special. “Somalia was divided into three parts: The north wasJamal-Hashi French, the middle was the UK ‘red coats,’ and the south, Italian.” He says: “You can’t say there’s Somali this or that, but each region is special. The south is known for sweets, pasta, and marinara. The north gets influences from Djibouti. The way we use spice is different, from the north to the south.”

With respect to home cooking in his family growing up, Hashi says: “My father specializes in seafood.”

In Somalia, recipes are typically not written down, but passed down through family. Or, Hashi says: “People can guess, play around with the spices.” Hashi’s own interest in cooking sparked at home. “Something about food called to me. It started as a hobby, in the home. I loved playing around with food, watching others cook for me. There’s an artistry to it. Playing with fire, and the textures; it’s an art in a way. I love the gratitude of people when you serve it to them. It’s a good feeling.”

Somalia’s location on the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden historically enabled active trading with India, Pakistan, and the Middle East, particularly Yemen. “We get mixed fusion,

the cultures blended into one. So, we have curry with pasta. And beef marinara. We use both potatoes and pasta. Crepes with

sesame oil and brown sugar is very common. In Ethiopia, their injera is soft and spongy, made from teff. Somali injera also includes butter and milk.”

Most Somalis observe halal dietary guidelines. He says the rules govern “mostly how the meat is prepped.”

While Somali cuisine may be unfamiliar to many Americans, opportunities to try it, particularly in Minneapolis, are increasing. According to the Minneapolis Foundat ion,”Minnesota is home to the country’s largest population of Somali residents.”

Estimates vary, but the Confederat ion of Somali Community indicates that, since 1991, 100,000 Somalis have settled in the United States, 40,000 of which have settled or re-settled in Minnesota. Safari Express is one of the estimated (by the Minneapolis Foundation) 120 African-owned businesses, i n c l u d i n g m a r k e t s a n d restaurants, along Minneapolis’ Lake Street corridor.

Chef Jamal Hashi graciously accommodated the Heavy Table’s request to spend an evening grocery shopping and cooking with us, in order to provide more insight into Somali cuisine. He showed us how to make a dish not available on the menu at Safari Express: Mango (Ambe, pronounced “ahm-bay”) Curry Chicken with Somali Rice, which is a colorful dish, fragrant with the scents of cumin and curry. It’s both mildly sweet and spicy. Says Hashi: “The mango brings the spice down and balances everything out.”

Hashi kicked off our evening of shopping and cooking with a stop at The Produce Exchange, in Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis, in search of ripe mangoes. “I love using organic produce at home and at Safari Express, too. It tastes like the way we do it back home. Fruits don’t taste like fruits here [in the US]. There are lots of good things about organics: They are good for your system, have fewer chemicals, and have health benefits over the long-term. And it supports local businesses.”

He says that a ripe mango

“should be a little soft when you squeeze it. The firmer it is, the more sour it is. It doesn’t matter what color the skin is: it might

be green, but still sweet.” As Hashi patiently sorted through the mangoes, gently squeezing each one, a process that took several minutes, he said: “Back home, we had a big mango tree behind our house. It was our neighbors’ tree, but half hung over in our area. In East Africa, you know they are ripe when they fall from the tree. Here, you have to squeeze it.”

“Somalia is not as dry as you assume it is. Some parts are dry, but fresh tropical fruits and vegetables are available. There are some fruits so common in Somalia that people grew them in their yards that aren’t available here. Back home, we used the real [sugar] cane. Here, we use the closest thing, organic brown sugar. In Africa, for coconut milk, we use fresh coconut, off the tree. But here, we get it from a can. That’s as fresh as we get.”

“The banana,” says Hashi, “is the number one fruit of all. J&J Distributing, which owns the Produce Exchange, provides more bananas to Somali restaurants in the Twin Cities

than to all other businesses combined.”

In addition to purchasing a mango and organic brown sugar at The Produce Exchange, we also bought an onion (either red

or yellow will work), serrano chiles (some green, some red — “Great color,” says Hashi), garlic, and a bell pepper (either

green or red). Hashi says that for color and flavor, you can add in your choice of fresh or frozen vegetables: sugar snap peas, carrots, and broccoli. The variety allows “great presentation” and is “good for the eyes.”

Our next stop at Midtown Global Market was Holy Land Grocery & Deli for chicken and several other key ingredients for the mango chicken — mild curry powder (Gardenia Grain D’Or and RaJah brands are good), mango pulp, coconut milk, and olive oil — and for the Somali rice — vegetable broth (Hashi recommends Vegeta brand soup mix) and basmati rice.

“I like strong spices, like cardamom and cloves. And fresh sticks of cinnamon to add to rice or tea,” says Hashi. He mixes his own spice blends for Safari Express, but thinks several of the curry blends they sell at Holy Land are good for the home cook. He particularly likes the Gardenia Grain D’Or brand: “Really good curry.” Hashi says he can buy most of what he needs

for home cooking at Holy Land Deli, since the meats are halal. Many of their grocery goods are imported from overseas. Minneapolis-St. Paul Somali families typically shop the halal

markets on Central Avenue in Northeast Minneapolis, but rely on conventional grocery stores like SuperValu for fruits and

vegetables.

For rice, Hashi’s favorite brand of rice is Aahu Barah, a Pakistani brand. “It’s the best rice, with the most consistent quality. Of course you pay for it.” Hashi also likes Zebra brand, which is cheaper, “but the consistency goes up and down. I find one I like, and stick with it.” Hashi held out some rice grains in the palm of his hand: “It should be yellow and nice, with no broken edges.”

Asked if there’s one dish that could be considered the national dish of Somalia, Hashi replies, “Goat meat. It’s a very sensitive meat. It takes some loving and caring; you have to nurture it, like a baby. Goat meat, which has a gamy taste, goes through three processes. First, you boil it in water to tenderize it and get the gamy taste out. In Somalia, you’d keep the broth to use for your rice [at Safari Express Hashi uses vegetarian broth]. Next, you oven roast it, marinating it in heat with spices for 20 minutes

to a half hour, then you grill it with olive oil to seal the taste in and give it a good edge.” Hashi says that it’s the chef that makes or breaks this dish.

Hashi’s advice to those trying

Somali cuisine for the first time: “Live a little. Play with your food. Have fun with it.” He and his brother opened Safari

Express to give Minnesotans an introduction to Somali food. They encourage their clientele to try things by letting them try samples and through their Safari Express membership. “Safari means journey. So, Safari Express is a fast journey.”

Hashi says: “It’s a stereotype that Minnesotans don’t like spicy food. I find it untrue. Nine out of 10 of my customers [some of which are Somali, but the majority of which are not] like spicy food.” Hashi concedes that many of his customers at Safari Express are likely the more adventurous eaters, but, admits that the Chicken Suqaar and Beef Solan that he serves at Safari Express are tamed down a little compared to the traditional preparation.

Hashi says Chicken Fantastic is “Safari Express’ number one seller: Nothing else comes close.”

Hashi sums it up with this: “I think with all food, everyone has their own tastes. But the number one recipe is love. Use your creativity and imagination.

People are tired of shortcuts in food. Where’s the love?”

Story by : Katie CannonRecipe by: Jamal HashiSource: Somali Kitchen

story by: : katie Cannon

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Children are the ways and means, in which God has decreed for human to continue life on this world. They are blessings from God, perhaps, one of the greatest blessings that God has given to human beings. In this life, they are our sources of energy that help us move in the morning, in the afternoon, during the day, and during the night; they give us endurance and patience to carry on our lives. Unlike other jobs, parenting is the only job that does not have a break throughout the year. Yet, it is one of the most rewarding jobs that one can have— as children bring and produce joy and excitement to our daily lives. They add meaning and purpose to our lives and help us to be conscious and grateful to our Creator. With all the enjoyments and happiness they bring into our lives, they also come with responsibility as they entrusted to us from God. If we fulfill the trust accordingly, then our children will become continues charity for us even after we have departed from this world- this means our righteous children will supplicate for us. In order for us to get our rights from our children, we need to fulfill our obligations towards our children first. The following are some of their basic rights, which if we fulfill, will reciprocate our rights later.

beFoRe they boRnTarbiya, which means the right

upbringing of children starts finding the right spouse. For both sides, finding a good father or mother for our child will be the first step. Subsequently, the married couple need to establish and build the foundation for the new family with hallal, the permissible provision. The couple needs to set guiding habits for the family, such as regular and routine supplications, remembrances, and activities. It would be an ideal to take pre-marriage courses to get a glimpse of the change that is on their way. The life of one opinion and freedom is a past now. They have to learn how to compromise and be patient with one another. They should have a deep discussion of what defines their family and overall what kind of family they want to become. They should prepare and get ready for any additions (children) to the family. If God blesses them with pregnancy, the mother should avoid drugs, cigarettes, alcohols as they are harmful to the unborn child as well as to the mother- the father should avoid these substances as well. The father should help the mother to ease the hardship of pregnancy in general, and avoid anything that brings stress to her. During the pregnancy, the mother should provide good words or Qur’anic recitations for the unborn to listen as he or she hears the outside voices and activities. Summarized points:

• Right to Clear Lineage• Right to Legitimate Birth through Wedlock

• Right to Life- no abortionBirth and AfterwardsLabor is hard and painful,

thus, if circumstance permits, the father should be available to comfort the mother during her labor and to recite the prayer call and supplications to the new baby as soon as she or he arrives. The right name is important, for it will be part of the newborn’s identity, so the parents should discuss the name and give a meaningful name to their child. With all the hardship of pregnancy and labor, in which the mother bears most of it, parents should aware that the most difficult job of all has just started after the newborn arrives. Thus, parents should prepare and get ready for the next

couple of months’ sleepless nights. These coming months are the most important times for the newborn as well. The best nutrition at this time is breastfeeding.

SUmmaRized pointS:• Adhan and Iqamah-making a prayer call into the ears of the newborn upon arrival• Tahneq- to put a piece of softened date or other available sweet fruit in the mouth of the newborn baby•Aqeqah - s ac r i f i ce and commemoration made for the baby about 7th day from the child’s birth• Shave the hair- give charity equivalent to the weight of the child’s hair to the poor• Naming- Choose a good and meaningful name for the new baby• Nursing- Breastfeeding is the best nutrition

• Circumcision- circumcise the male child

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The word “Tarbiya” is an Arabic word that linguistically means increase and/or growth. It is a process of developing children physically, socially, spir i tual ly , educat ional ly, mentally, intellectually, morally and emotionally to become useful and helpful to themselves and to the society. In order for them to reach that level, parents should know that they are the most important developers, mentors, and first teachers of their children. We need to prepare ourselves, our houses, and our work areas to suit the needs of our children. Here are some areas we need to focus on:

• Feelings: Caring for their emotions and feelings is critical and very important. We need to show them our love, excitement, smile, tenderness, and mercy. We need to involve their lives, trust them, treat them with respect and kindness. We need to praise them, refer to them with good names, encourage them, acknowledge their jealousy and frustrations, consult them and ask for their viewpoints. We need to avoid humiliation and never belittle them. We need to let them know that they are more important than the work and make them feel it.

• Health: This not only involves immunizations and medical check-ups, but includes a boarder aspect such as their nutrition, sleeping, and exercising. In order to grow a healthy body, which

is a prerequisite to a healthy mind and a balanced life, we need to focus on their health as a package both physically and psychologically.

• Discipline: Discipline teaches and trains in order to develop a good personal character. Discipline is not a punishment of any kind (physical, verbal or mental). We need to set rules and orders in our houses, explain and teach our children the rules, its consequence, and most importantly, we need to let them participate in making the rules, so that they take responsibility early on in age. To implement the rules, we need to start with ourselves and establish for them basis rules; give them simple and clear directions; and give them responsibility. We need to be careful to not spoil them, bribe them, practice extravagance, and unnecessary luxury life styles. We need to avoid harsh discipline, and be consistent about our consequences and rewards.

• Education: We need to be good teachers, who nurture the minds of the children, not just passing information. We want to teach them at home and not assume that school covers everything. We need to have study and play times. We need to enroll them in extracurricular classes, encourage reading, writing, visiting the library, zoo, and museums with them. We need to teach our children creativity and self-sufficient habits, good character, and manners. We want to prevent and teach our children about bad character

and behavior. We want them to grow up learned and know how to live as good human beings in all aspects of their lives. We need to enlighten them with education in natural sciences, differences in all aspects of systems, and prepare them for the challenges of life. We need to expose and provide them different materials and formats of learning (video, book, arts, crafts, creativities, etc.) We want to take them with us, when we go to the masjid and other gathering places as this will ease the anxiety and help to reinforce their learning process.

• Exemplary & Role Model: We need to practice what we preach. We need to show behavior and character by displaying it from our actions. We need to review constantly how we spend our time, use good language, be good to our spouse, avoid and prevent all vice talks, actions, and thoughts. We need to work together as parents, control our temper, and organize our house to equally accommodate between us and our children. We need to be fair and just among our children.

• Engagement and Socializing: We need to engage and socialize with our children, communicate, exchange ideas, be good listeners to both our children, and our spouse. We need to go out as a family, pray together, be friends with our children and be involved in their lives, schools and other activities. We need to develop health communication and relationship with our children.

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Rights of Children upon Parents: Tips on Successful Parentingby:abdikadir ibrahim, tusmo times Contributing writer

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Maxaa kala haysta Af Soomaaliga iyo dadkiisaaQore: maxamud maxamed (Gaadaweyne), tusmo times