By Mohamed Awaleh Recently, a young Somali male was killed and two more were wounded in broad day light at two-storey duplex at 829 Borthwick Ave. about 11: 47 am. This whole madness, indeed, disheartened the entire Somali community; and shocked the rest of Ottawa’s community. Although the motive is still unknown – though, [...]
Upon following up a piece that I published on “Hiiraan.com – on Friday December 25, 2009 – ‘Djibouti Business Awards: the next biggest event in Djibouti’. According to Mr. Naleye Roble, the initiator of this important ceremony initially was supposed to be held at Djibouti Kempenski Palace Hotel onMarch 14, 2010. Up [...]
By Mohamed Awaleh Nowadays it seems to me that the Somali Diasporas in the West are suffering what a psychologists or psychiatrists might conclude, self-grandiose or wishful thinking – one of the symptoms of depression. They have been gathering Hotels in London, Ottawa, Washington DC, and Oslo…etc and pretending to create State to their [...]
Announcement: The safaripost team distributed already the Febuary issue’s paper; and it’s already in your neighborhood. Ottawa residents please pick up your copy in your neighborhood. If you can’t spot the safaripost newspaper – let us know – we will deliver to you. If you have an article or story in English, French or Somali to share [...]
This piece was as well, originally published on Safaripost newspaper, last November, 2011. Please enjoy reading!! By Mohamed Awaleh, An exclusive interview with Mr. Farhan Hassan, the Executive Director of “REPFO” (the French speaking Parents’ advocacy Organization in Ottawa). Could you please briefly explain to our readers; who’s and what REPFO organization do? First of all, [...]
Mr. Benoit, Director of CEPEO. This interview was conducted, December 12th, 2011 at the Office of Director of education of CEPEO, Mr. Francois Benoit. And was originally published on Safaripost newspaper print version that distributed in Ottawa - the first day of each month for the last six months. Unfortunately right after we published it; we learned that Mr. Benoit’s contract [...]
This picture was taking early January 2012 near to Mile town, not far from Dire-Dawa city, the second largest city in Ethiopia. These young men and women are Diaspora delegations who recently went to Ethiopia. They left their adopted countries, Canada, U.S.A and Western Europe in early December 2011 for a fact finding mission in [...]
According to our sources in Djibouti: the Djiboutian Minister of education, Dr. Adawe, was fired right after he came back home from his trip – Ottawa, Canada. Though, our source tell us that the reason was: ‘the embarrassing private chat between Dr. Adawe and supposedly his young mistress on facebook that was sadly hacked by his political [...]
Colonel Abdillahi Abdi, the commander of National Police of the Republic of Djibouti has been shot by another police officer at 1 pm; for unknown reason. According to our source, the shooter’s salary was suspended by Colonel Abdillahi Abdi – for unknown reason. The information that safaripost got so far, is; it has nothing to [...]
The safaripost team finally launches the free newspaper version or in print – www.safaripost.net – in Ottawa; and it’s already in your neighborhood. Go and Grab your copy, please, hurry! If you are Ottawa resident, please feel free to pick up your copy. If you can’t spot the safaripost newspaper in your neighborhood – please [...]