Media Advisory Press conference on the fact finding and solidarity mission by H.E. Ambassador Yusuf Mohamed Ismail, Somalia’s Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council Edmonton – the Alberta Somali Community Center (ASCC) will be welcoming H.E. Ambassador Yusuf Mohamed Ismail, Somalia’s Ambassador to the UN Office in Geneva, on [...]
Media Advisory Canadian Somali community to hold a demonstration on the fifth anniversary of the illegal detention of Bashir Makhtal in Ethiopia. They will call on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to make future Canadian aid to Ethiopia conditional on Mr. Makhtal’s release. Toronto – The Canadian Somali community will demonstrate in front of the Ontario [...]
News broadcaster Al Jazeera English has conducted a survey via SMS of Somali people to ascertain how lives have been affected by the ongoing conflict, and is mapping the results on its website from today (8 December). The Qatar-based satellite TV channel sent 5000 SMS messages across Somalia in partnership with Souktel, asking for [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the top ranking delegation from the world body in Mogadishu on Friday announced the relocation of UN office for Somalia to the Horn of Africa country’s capital Mogadishu in January. The UN chief and the president of the UN General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, held talks with Somali senior leaders, [...]
Somalia has been steadily slipping from global media attention over the past few months. The large scale crisis is no longer making headline news, which means that advocacy and lobbying groups are finding it increasingly difficult to place pressure on policymakers and humanitarian organizations to scale their intervention in the Horn of Africa. I recently [...]
The Alberta Somali Community Center and the Canadian Somali Congress cordially invite you to a community fundraiser to be held in Toronto, Ontario, on December 17, 2011. The funds raised at this event will be used to set up educational facilities for Somali refugees at the Nakivale Refugee Camp in Uganda. Scroll down to find [...]
“Know Your Legal Rights” Conference Main presentation to be given by Mr. Harminder S. Dhillon, Barrister, Solicitor and member of the Ontario Review Board Sunday October 30, 2011 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM @ Days Hotel and Conference Center 240 Belfield Rd., Toronto, Ontario (intersection of Highway 27 and Belfield Rd.) Telephone 416-242-6600 Topics Include: [...]
CANADIAN SOMALI CONGRESS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM – INDIVIDUAL The Canadian Somali Congress (CSC) invites you to become a member of the national organization that advocates for the rights of Canadian Somalis. By joining the organization, you will be part of a growing number of Canadian Somalis who want to speak in one voice and who [...]
It is excellent to see the President of Somalia Sheikh Sharif walking round neighbourhoods that he could only dream of capturing a week ago. Like love struck tourists in a new place he and his appointed ministers take turns to visit the Mogadishu football stadium and shopping areas previously under Al-Shabaab control. From the images [...]
Canadian Somali Congress Welcomes Canada’s Response to the Humanitarian Crisis in East Africa July 22, 2011 Canadian Somali Congress applauds Government of Canada announcement of an additional contribution of $50 million to the humanitarian crisis in East Africa. The Canadian Somali Congress welcomes the announcement today by the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of [...]
Liboi Town 11 am, Monday 18th July 2011 The five of us clutch onto our tools of trade; cameras, pens, paper, mental snapshots. We are desperate to document the things we see, desperate to scratch them with a stick onto the sands of time. What I’ve been seeing seems too big for my eyes, and I [...]
Dadaab Town. Sunday 17th July 2011. 2.30 pm All five of us sit in the shade of a tree. I stare at a sign that says ‘Silence’, right above Matt’s head. I wonder, does it mean we should eat in silence? Is it a reminder to talk less and swallow more food for thought? The [...]
Edmonton – the Alberta Somali Community Center (ASCC) in conjunction with the Canadian Somali Congress and the Edmonton Somali Community Center will be launching key crime prevention initiatives that are aimed at preventing crime, empowering at risk youth to make better life choices and assisting police with the outstanding 13 Edmonton Somali homicide cases.
GALKAYO, Somalia, June 30 (UNHCR) – Barely a year ago, life was a constant struggle for survival for 18-year-old Barre Abdirahman in the central Somalia town of Baidoa. Limited employment opportunities, intense fighting and the threat of drought had reduced the local population to poverty and a bleak future. “There was no good life there; [...]
If I got a pound for every time I heard the above phrase used in reference to my preferred and may I add CHOSEN single status I’d be, well maybe not a complete millionaire, but I would certainly be well on my to a life full of luxuries and riches, and according to my mother, no one to share it with.
