Students learn how to say it in Somali

Eden Prairie School District’s adult class in Somali language and culture is seen by non-Somalis as way to foster communication.

Abdullahi Hassan said when he heard more than 28 adults had registered for the Somali language and culture class he teaches in Eden Prairie, he couldn’t believe it.

By Patrice Relerford, Star Tribune

Heavy fighting in Somali capital

Insurgents turned to guerrilla warfare six months ago

Some of the heaviest fighting in months has broken out between Ethiopian forces and local insurgents in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.

Residents said that at least 10 people had been killed amid shell and machine-gun fire as the Ethiopian forces launched an offensive.

Magaalada Laascanood oo weli ku Jirta Mar xalad dagaal iyo mudaharaadyo ay bulshadu weli abaabulayaan

Laascanood:Magaalada Laascanood ee xarunta Gobolka sool ayaa wayahan dame waxaa ay ahayd xero ay ku soo dulaan Maamulka waqooyiga Fog ee ka amar qaata ciidanka La magacbaxay Somaliland oo fadhiisinka ka dhigtay duleedka Magaalada Laas canood ee gobolkaasi sool,

A Great Victory for the Oppressed Nation of Ogaden

 

Africa’s most Appalling Tyranny Tumbles! As direct and logical consequence of Dictator Meles Zenawi’s atrocious deeds in Ogaden, a great number of Ogadeni youth joined recently the military branch of the ONLF, the Ogaden National Liberation Front. They were left with no choice.

Their houses burnt by the Amhara and Tigray tribal soldiers; their sisters raped in the streets of towns by the criminal thugs sent to keep the ‘order’ in Ogaden by Washington’s interlocutor, the notorious Tyrant Zenawi; their grandfathers mercilessly killed by the Abyssinian death squads because simply they were Somalis.