Daily news headlines from Somalia, Eritrea and the Greater Horn Region.
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News stories, commentaries and reports from the Horn of Africa.
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 In recent months, thousands of Ethiopians living in Yemen, have been returned to Africa. Members of Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, the Oromo, say they are systematically abused in Ethiopia and they travel to Yemen out of fear for their lives. But Yemeni and Ethiopian officials say they are in search of better jobs, not in fear of political persecution.
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 In a three part series that started airing on Monday January 25, 2010, Minnesota Public Radio’s, Laura Yuen talked to Somali Minnesotans about some of the challenges the community has faced in recent years. The series focused primarily on Young Somalis who have become of great interest to the American Law Enforcement Community in recent years.
The FBI says some two dozen Somali’s have either left for Somalia or joined Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda’s proxy in the Horn of Africa. The MPR report also notes that “since December 2007, at least 11 young men of Somali descent have been killed in the Twin Cities.” The Minneapolis Police that has a fairly established outreach with Somali residents in Minnesota has also been battling the rising of gang activity in recent years. |
By Thomas C. Mountain
ASMARA, Eritrea -- The UN inSecurity Council has done it again in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia has been committing genocide in the Ethiopian Ogaden and in response the UN Security Council, in a closed door meeting, passed sanctions against . . . Eritrea?
In the bizarre world of the UN Security Council, black is white, up is down and right is wrong. Ethiopia can invade its neighbors (Eritrea in 2000, Somalia in 2006) steal an election (2005, in the process of which Ethiopian troops gunned down over 500 protestors and locked up another 50,000) and commit crimes against humanity against its own people, including ethnic cleansing in western Ethiopia and outright genocide in the Ogaden, and remain untouched. |
  More than 200 East African immigrants tried to squeeze into back-to-back Hennepin County court sessions Friday for two teenage Somali boys facing murder charges in the shooting deaths of three men last week at a Seward neighborhood store.
More than half those who came to support the families of the victims and the defendants had to wait outside as Mahdi Hassan Ali, 17, and his friend, Ahmed Shire Ali, 17, appeared before a judge for the first time since the Jan. 6 shootings at the Seward Market and Halal Meats in south Minneapolis. (The teenagers are friends and not related.)
During separate hearings, District Judge Gary Larson set bail at $3 million for each.
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By Peter Beaumont
In Yemen, Somalia and beyond, the lawless, strife-torn region has provided disturbing evidence that its myriad problems cannot be ignored – and that the west must see the connections between them all
It looked like many of the dhows that sail the Gulf of Aden, a nameless boat identifiable only by its registration number – 11S2. This dhow, however, was not carrying fish, or even engaged in the lethal people smuggling trade conducted across these waters. |
The Somali community in Minneapolis woke up to a tragic incident this morning. In a shooting that occurred yesterday evening at a local Steward and Halal Meats Market frequented by Oromo and Somali immigrants, the owners - two cousins and a customer, were gunned down in a foiled robbery attempt according to the report. The police did not yet release the name of the three victims. And there are no suspects in the case at this point.Our condolences go out to the family of the victims and we hope that justice will be served in the case.
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 An Eritrean government official has described reports that an international body will soon demarcate the border between his country and Ethiopia as rumors.
Information minister Ali Abdu said Ethiopia is “illegally” occupying Eritrean land - - a charge Ethiopia denies. |
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