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After 20 years of service, Ali Duale is hanging up his helmet with Halifax Fire. As Skye Bryden-Blom reports, Duale came to Canada as a Somali refugee in 1997 and vowed to give back to his community.

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised heads of African states that he would ensure that Africa does not face food insecurity as a result of the end of the Black Sea grain agreement. Addressing African leaders at a summit in St. Petersburg, he said Russia would, over the next three to four months, supply Burkina Faso,...

Dr. Akeir Mel Kuol with the Best Help Family Foundation joins Global News Calgary to discuss how people in the community have come together in the months following 16-year-old Jal Acor Jal’s death. On Sunday, Feb. 26 the event “Black Me” will be held from 3 p.m. – 8 p.m. at the Somali Canadian Society...

Somalia’s lower house of parliament voted unanimously on Saturday to cancel a divisive two-year presidential term extension it approved last month— a move that might help end an armed stand-off in the capital Mogadishu. The crisis over the term extension has raised fears that al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgents could exploit the situation.

A Victoria city councillor is the latest Canadian politician to apologize – for travelling out of the country during the holidays. Sharmarke Debow saying he’s sorry he travelled to Somalia to visit family. As Richard Zussman reports, some are saying he should do more than apologize.

The process of re-naming Vaughan Secondary School, whose eponym was a slave owner, is causing concerns about racism. Members of Black and Muslim advocacy groups say the late Somali-Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh received the most votes from a community survey done on whom the school should be re-named after. A school board trustee is questioning...

March 10: Dalhousie University students have developed an interactive training tool for peacekeepers who interact with child soldiers. The project was a partnership with the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldier Initiative and will be used as part of on-the-ground training in Somalia. Rebecca Lau reports.

A Canadian woman claiming to originally be from Somalia interrupted an event in Winnipeg Friday to draw and attention to the plight of her family. She, and another man, were escorted out of the room by the police chief six minutes after the interruption began.

A passenger aboard a Somali airliner captured the scary moments after a hole opened up in the side of the plane.

Flight experts suggest a hole that opened up on a Somali airliner during a flight this week was caused by a bomb, even though Somalia’s civil aviation authority said they had found no evidence of a criminal act. Mark Phillips reports.

Wed, Feb 3: Shortly after a passenger plane took off from a Somalia airport, an explosion blew a huge hole in the side of it. The flight managed to land and, as Eric Sorensen reports, someone on board caught the aftermath on camera.

The head of the airline whose jetliner was damaged in an explosion shortly after takeoff from Somalia said Thursday that investigators have found what appears to be residue from explosives, though he cautioned that the findings were inconclusive.

At least seven people are dead after a suicide attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Reuters’ Julie Noce reports.

Black Lives Matter Toronto staged a rally at the Special Investigations Unit headquarters in Mississauga, Ont. on Wednesday to protest the death of a 37-year-old Somali-Canadian man following a police arrest in Ottawa last month. Ashley Carter reports.

Traffic came to a standstill during Monday morning’s rush hour at Yonge-Dundas Square, after a Black Lives Matter Toronto protest of the fatal shooting of a Somali-Canadian man following a police arrest in Ottawa last month. Peter Kim reports.

Somalia’s president, Abdullahi Farmajo, attempted to reassure his country Saturday after a truck bomb attack killed at least 90 people, saying the people and their government would “never be demoralized” by such an incident.

Al Shabaab gunmen launched an attack in Somalia on Tuesday on a hotel near the presidential palace in Mogadishu.

Members of the Somali Canadian Cultural Society of Edmonton are upset after receiving a hateful and racist message the night before Canada Day. But as Sarah Komadina explains, they are also upset with how police responded.

A Somali government official on Thursday confirmed that US forces were involved in an operation against Islamist extremists in Somalia.

At least 10 people were wounded in the small hours of Thursday in a grenade attack at a bar in the area of Diani, south of Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa, the latest attack in the East African nation that is frequently targeted by militants in neighbouring Somalia.