SOMALI WORLD CUP REFEREE DENIED ENTRY TO UNITED STATES. (PHOTO).

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 Somali World Cup Referee Denied Entry to United States Award-winning Somali referee, Omar Artan, has been denied entry into the United States despite holding a valid visa, according to a senior official in Somalia’s sports ministry. Artan, who is set to become the first Somali referee to officiate at the FIFA World Cup finals, was stopped at Miami International Airport and subsequently returned to Istanbul, where he had been residing. The reason for the denial was not immediately disclosed. However, Somalia is among the countries affected by a travel ban introduced by the administration of Donald Trump. Reacting to the development, Ciise Aden Abshir, a senior adviser to Somalia’s Ministry of Youth and Sports and a former national team captain, described Artan as one of Africa’s most respected referees. “Omar Artan is among Africa’s most respected referees and deserves the support of the entire football community,” Abshir told AFP on Monday. He added that preventing the referee fro...

CDS INSISTS MILITARY AVOIDED MISTAKES AND PROMISES PROBE AMID SOKOTO AIRSTRIKES. (PHOTO).


 CDS insists military avoided mistakes and promises probe amid Sokoto airstrikes:


The Chief of Defense Staff, General Christopher Musa, has insisted that there was no mistake in the military airstrikes targeted at the members of the Lakurawa terrorist group in Sokoto on Wednesday


A fighter jet bombed two communities in the Silame Local Government Area of the state, killing at least 10 innocent villagers and injuring several others.


The Sokoto State Government claimed that 10 people who lost their lives in the strikes were “innocent villagers.”


However, visiting the North-Western State a day after the incident, the CDS while addressing journalists at the Giginya Cantonment Sokoto, maintains that those killed were criminals.

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