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...
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...
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 £...
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...
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...
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 ...
BERBERA, Somalia — Somali livestock farmers who have converged massively on the port of Berbera after losing all their animals said that this year’s drought is the worst in ten years.
“We were in a drought for the past six months. It was very severe. We lost 50 percent of all our livestock. Then it rained and the rain brought other problems — disease, deaths and flooding,”...
Despite reaffirming the importance of deeper US-China co-operation to world peace and stability, the two sides were unable to disguise the deep differences that separate them on trade, security, climate change and human rights.
Speaking after the talks which formed the centrepiece of Mr Obama’s five day tour of Asia, the two presidents laid out their separate positions on key issues during a...
Security officials in Somaliland narrowly thwarted a terror attack that had been planned against a peace conference in the town of Hargeisa last Sunday. The gathering of clan leaders had been organised by Finn Church Aid, the foreign aid arm of the Finnish Lutheran Church.
Ten kilos of powder-based explosives were found in the possession of two uninvited guests. The aim was apparently t...
Hogaanka sare ee dowladda Somaliya ayaa maanta ka qaaday xilkii maamulkii gobolka Banaadir, iyagoona magacaabay maamul cusub oo ka kooban afar xubnood.
Munaasabadan xil kala wareejinta oo ay kasoo qeyb galeen madaxweynaha Somaliya, gudoomiyaha barlamaanka, kusimaha r`iisal wasaaraha, wasiiro iyo xildhibaano ayaa waxa ey ka dhacday xarunta madaxtooyada Somaliya.
Hadalo kala duwan ayaa waxaa ...
NAIROBI, Saturday, Aid agencies operating in Somalia say they need more money but that some donors are holding back, concerned at where resources might end up in areas too dangerous for international staff.
“Some of the largest donors in 2008 have given much less or almost no support so far this year,” said Kiki Gbeho, head of UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for...
NAIROBI, Kenya — United Nations officials said Friday that the supply of critical food aid to Somalia had been interrupted and that rations to starving people needed to be cut, partly because the American government had delayed food contributions out of fears that they would be diverted to terrorists.
Last month, American officials said they had suspended millions of dollars of food aid beca...
BERMEO, Spain — Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday calling for the release of the 36 crewmen of a Spanish tuna trawler being held by Somali pirates under the threat of death.
They gathered at Bermeo in the northern Spanish Basque country, home port of the trawler Alakrana, which was seized off Somalia more than a month ago.
Leading Basque politicians joined in the protest, held in driv...
Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.
Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka.
An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby.
Islamist groups run much of southern Somalia, while the UN-backed gove...
