Countries bordering Somalia are planning to coordinate a major assault against positions held by al- Shabaab militia in Somalia, using ethnic Somali military officers being trained in their respective boundaries.
Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti who shar
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Artillery shelling between Islamist rebels and Somali government forces killed at least 14 people and wounded 28 others in Mogadishu on Sunday, residents and a rights group
LONDON (Reuters) – Ships using the Indian Ocean will not receive the same level of naval protection from pirates as those in the Gulf of Aden because military resources are tight, British Foreig
The U.N. Security Council was set to impose sanctions on the Horn of Africa state of Eritrea on Wednesday because of aid council members say it has given to Islamist insurgents in Somalia.
The United
Countries bordering Somalia are planning to coordinate a major assault against positions held by al- Shabaab militia in Somalia, using ethnic Somali military officers being trained in their respective
Countries bordering Somalia are planning to coordinate a major assault against positions held by al- Shabaab militia in Somalia, using ethnic Somali military officers being trained in their respective boundaries.
Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti who share the border with Somalia are all training military personnel on behalf of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia, which though boxed-in...
Dowadda Somaliya ayaa si diiran usoo dhaweysay go`aankii shalay ey gaareen Golaha Amaanka ee Qaramada Midoobay kaasoo ey cunaqabateyn ku saartay dalka Eritrea oo ey ku eedeeyeen in ey hurineyso colaada raagtay ee Somaliya ka taagan.
Wasiiru dowlaha arrimaha dibada Somaliya Cali Jaamac Jengili oo isagoo ku sugan dalka Sucuudiga wareysi dhiibay ayaa soo dhaweeyay go`aanka Golaha Amaanka ee ku aadan ...
The U.N. Security Council was set to impose sanctions on the Horn of Africa state of Eritrea on Wednesday because of aid council members say it has given to Islamist insurgents in Somalia.
The United States and other nations accuse Eritrea of supplying al Shabaab rebels with funds and arms as they fight to topple a fragile U.N.-backed transitional government in Somalia, a state that has been virt...
LONDON (Reuters) – Ships using the Indian Ocean will not receive the same level of naval protection from pirates as those in the Gulf of Aden because military resources are tight, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.
Somali pirates have made tens of millions of dollars in ransoms by hijacking ships in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, which links Europe to Asia.
In a letter th...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Artillery shelling between Islamist rebels and Somali government forces killed at least 14 people and wounded 28 others in Mogadishu on Sunday, residents and a rights group said.
Insurgents fired mortars at government troops, prompting a heavier response of shells that killed civilians in several suburbs of Mogadishu and made residents cower indoors.
“Fourteen civ...
US senators are preparing for the second of three procedural votes on a major healthcare reform bill.
This follows Monday’s vote in the Senate to end debate on the bill, putting the legislation on course to face a final vote on Christmas Eve.
President Barack Obama hailed the late-night vote, which followed a long, often acrimonious debate, as a “big victory for the American peopleR...
MOGADISHU — Gunmen shot dead a Somali security officer working for the United Nations food programme (WFP) in the western town of Beledweyn on Tuesday, officials said.
Ali Farah Amey was head of security at the UN compound in Beledweyn, a flashpoint town which lies near the Ethiopian border, some 300 kilometres (180 miles) north of Mogadishu.
“They shot him several times in the head and sh...
The Somali President opened the 10th Session of the Somali Parliament Held in Mogadishu Today. He Informed MPs that the Government Recruited Enough Troops to Take on the Extremists
(Mogadishu – Somalia, Monday December 21, 2009) The President of Somalia, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, speaking on the occasion of the opening of the 10th Session of the Somali Parliament informed Somali Parliamentarian...
HARGEISA, Somalia — A Somali just home from eight years in the US jail at Guantanamo Bay told AFP the prison was “hell on Earth”, and alleged torture there had scarred some of his fellow inmates.
Mohamed Saleban Bare, who arrived in his hometown of Hargeisa on Saturday, said he was innocent of any charges that would have caused security forces to arrest him in Pakistan in 2001 and t...
Dowlada Jabuuti ayaa daboolka ka qaaday in kooxda mayalka adag ee al-shabaab ee ka dhanka dowlada Somaliya ay isbadal ku sameeysay hogaanka kooxda , hogaamiyaal cusub oo alqaacida ka tirsan ay qabtay talada al-shabaab.
Wasirka arimaha dibada dalka Jabuuti Maxamuud Cali Yuusuf oo u waramayay wargeyska al-sharqul awsat ayuu tibaaxay in hogaanka kooxda al-shabab uu haatan qabtay nin u dhashay dalka ...
Ciidamada booliska Kenya ayaa olole ay ku xir xirayaan Somaliada ku nool xaafada Islii ee magaalada Nayrobi ku guda jira halkaasi oo ay ku nool yihiin Somali badan oo ka soo qaxay mowjadaha dagaal ee Muqdisho.
Wararku waxa ay sheegayaan in ciidamda booliska ee jiiray xaafada Islii ay xir xireen ilaa 600-oo qof oo ay ku jiraan ragg ganacsato oo in badan kenya ku noolaa , iyadoo ay sii dheertahay d...
Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth let slip two opportunities to rescue a British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates.
Elite Royal Marine commandos were twice ready to launch a critical assault on the gang who had captured Paul Chandler, 59, and his wife Rachel, 55.
But each time Mr Ainsworth did not order the Royal Marines to move in. Nearly seven weeks later, the couple are still being held for a £...
Attending the graduation of doctors, engineers and professors in Mogadishu last Thursday, I was relieved to cover a positive Somalia story for a change.
War is all we can usually report from here, where fighting has killed at least 19,000 civilians since the start of 2007 and driven another 1.5 million from their homes.
Desperate to show the outside world another side to my country, I spent hou...
Users of the new operating system say the upgrading process is buggy. But once the kinks are worked out, customers are liking Windows 7 a lot more than Vista
Microsoft launched Windows 7 in late October to much fanfare. But, just like with previous Windows upgrades, complaints about bugs have already started rolling in.
A whopping 31% of clients have reported problems with upgrading to Windows 7, ...
Protesters carry banners which reads’ Down with those who carried the killings’ in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009 as they chant slogans against the bomb attack in Mogadishu’s Shamo hotel the previous Thursday, in which graduating medical students,doctors, and government ministers died. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
MOGADISHU, Somalia
— Somalia’s government is wa...
ADEN, 7 December 2009 (IRIN) – Public access to water in Basateen, a slum on the outskirts of Yemen’s southern port city of Aden and home to some 16,000 Somali refugees, has become extremely limited, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
The slum’s Somali inhabitants, most of whom if employed do menial jobs, say they have to purchase water from private companies to meet their da...
Fifa, football’s world governing body, loves to present the sport as a means of bridging cultural divides. Even so, there are bound to be raised eyebrows at the news that the voice of next year’s football World Cup belongs to a Muslim rapper from Somalia who believes that its notorious pirates are just misunderstood.
His name is K’Naan and the song, “Wavin’ Flag”...
GENEVA – THE United Nations called on richer governments on Monday to provide a total of US$7.1 billion (S$9.83 billion) in 2010 to fund urgent humanitarian assistance for 48 million people in 25 countries.
It was the largest sum sought for such aid, in what is known as the annual Humanitarian Appeal, since the world body started making consolidated calls for funding to tackle crises in diff...
A huge explosion which rocked Puntland’s commercial capital Bosasso on Tuesday evening killed at least 2 people and wounded 25 others mostly Ethiopians, residents and hospital sources told Newstime Africa. Residents who were reached for comment by this press said that unidentified assailants in a small car threw a hand grenade at a cinema in the city center where people mostly from Oromo communi...
He would not detail where troops would be deployed, but said many would train Afghan police and the new arrivals would include more badly needed helicopters.
The senior commander in Afghanistan said troops were there for a long term commitment, despite Mr Obama saying he would begin to reduce the reinforcements in 18 months.
He said he also believed the vast majority of Taliban were not hard line ...
International officials fear the spread of floggings, amputation, torture and death by stoning.
The current and former United Nations experts responsible for human rights in Somalia have condemned a series of stonings in the war-torn country.
Dr Shamsul Bari, an independent expert appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council to report on Somalia, expressed concern over a rise in stonings and targete...
The African Union’s Somalia envoy said donors have released only 30 percent of funds they pledged months ago toward bolstering Somalia’s security, frustrating efforts to turnaround the lawless country.The AU envoy’s statement echoes similar comments made by aid workers this week about how donors have been slow to release money for health programs aimed at helping Somalis.
AU peac...
Shots were fired at the vehicle carrying kidnapped Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout during her release this week in Somalia, CBC News has learned.
It was “less than a dozen shots — including warning shots — approaching a checkpoint,” a source close to the negotiations told CBC News. “It was unclear as it was night, but it was directed at their direction.”
CBC News ha...
Al-Qaeda proxy in Somalia, Al-Shabaab has seized a Somali town near the Kenyan border which resulted in civilians fleeing towards the neighbouring country. The rebel group moved into the town of Dhobley after Hizbul Islam a rival rebel group fled the town. The two rebel groups have been fighting the Western-backed government in the capital Mogadishu but recently fell out over the control of the ...
ADRID — A Spanish fishing boat thwarted an attack by pirates in the Indian Ocean in the early hours of Sunday morning, Spain’s defence ministry said.
The pirates fired bullets and threw a grenade at the Spanish-flagged Ortube Berria, before being fought off by the ship’s onboard private security guards, the ministry said in a statement.
The attack happened at 5:37 am (0437 GMT) some ...
Today, November 27th, marks the beginning of 2009’s Eid al-Adha, the Muslim “Festival of Sacrifice”, commemorating the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to God, meanwhile, Hundreds of muslims gather for the celebration of eid on Friday at Masjid Abubakar alsadiqque on the westside of Columbus, Ohio. Muslims around the world will celebrate by slaughtering anim...
A Minnesota man hosted a gathering for several young Somalis days before they left Minneapolis to fight with a terrorist group in their war-torn homeland, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday in a sweeping federal investigation.Mohamud Said Omar, 43, who is in custody in the Netherlands, is accused of being involved with many of the roughly 20 young men who left Minneapolis in waves from ...
Little Mogadishu residents talk of a lack of identity and a life of poverty and racism. And they disagree over their former neighbors who are accused of plotting jihad in Somalia.Reporting from Minneapolis – Barely a block from the Mississippi River sits a neighborhood Mark Twain could not have imagined.
Men with henna-streaked beards and women in full-body hijabs streamed Tuesday past the M...
The government of the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland has been sharply criticized by a U.S. lawmaker, who says Puntland authorities are routinely arresting, handing over men from neighboring Ogaden region to Ethiopian security
The government of the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland has been sharply criticized by a U.S. lawmaker, who says Puntland authorities are routinely arresti...
Federal prosecutors have announced charges against eight more people as part of a long-running investigation of young men who left the United States to fight in Somalia.
As many as 20 young Somali men have left Minnesota over the last two years for Somalia and are believed to have joined the Somali terror group al-Shabab. At least three have died.
The charges unsealed Monday in Minneapolis include...
MOGADISHU — The gunfire outside does not disturb them as they speak, explaining what led them to leave behind their lives as Islamist fighters and defect to the side of Somalia’s weak transitional government.
One of them tells the AFP journalist interviewing him he would have killed him if they had met a month earlier.
“If I’d met you in the street, I wouldn’t have spared...
NAIROBI, Kenya — The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia’s capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm. Then she saw her 8-year-old: The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his waist.
Two months later, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud’s nose is a small hole. His mouth is always open because he has no upper lip and his right eye is go...
While armed guards have been credited with repelling today’s Somali pirate attack on the US-flagged Maersk Alabama, a separate industry based on the development of nonlethal weaponry to protect ships is booming.
BCB International, a British firm, has developed a pirate-busting “stinger,” a device designed to stop attackers by tangling their propeller up in ropes.
In a demonstrati...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamists said on Sunday they had seized control of a southern town from the rival Hizbul Islam insurgents after clashes that killed at least 12 fighters.
Al Shabaab controls much of southern Somalia and parts of the capital Mogadishu. The group is fighting government troops and African Union peacekeepers to impose its own version of sharia, o...
Paul and Rachel Chandler said they were “unharmed and in reasonable physical health” but their “kidnappers were losing patience”.
The interview, broadcast on Channel 4 News, showed the couple speaking at gunpoint.
It was the first time they had been seen on camera since being captured.
Mr Chandler, 59, urged the Government to start negotiations over a ransom.
“I have...
HANOI, Vietnam – Diarrhea doesn’t make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention.
Yet even though cheap tools could prevent and cure both diseases, they kill an estimated 3.5 million kids under 5 each a year globally — more than HIV and malaria combined.
“They have been neglected, because donor or partnership mechanisms shifted their emphasis...
PHILADELPHIA — The company that owns the Maersk Alabama, a freighter targeted by pirates twice in seven months, did not heed a request to rename, repaint or reroute the ship after the first attack off the coast of Africa in the spring, former crew members say.
Ex-crewmen John Cronan and Shane Murphy said in separate interviews Wednesday that they feared and anticipated another attack after ...
MOMBASA, Kenya—Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean.
Inmates danced for the movie star and shook his hand as he toured the Shimo La Tewa prison in the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa. The prison has become a model for other jails in the country because of the reform work of its chi...
Somalia has vowed to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – a move that would leave the US as the only nation not to back the accord.
The UN, which is celebrating 20 years since the agreement was put into force, welcomed Somalia’s announcement.
But analysts say the Somali government has little authority and its rulings are largely unenforceable.
The US helped draft the a...
The government has admitted that it is helping to train Somalis in a bid to help the Somali Federal government but denies that any Kenyans are among those being trained. Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang says 2,000 Somalis have been trained by the Kenyan government. Kajwang was speaking when he appeared before a joint Parliamentary committee on Administration and National Security and Defense an...
