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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
A retired British couple snatched from their yacht by Somali pirates said in a video broadcast Friday that they feared they could be killed within a week or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom demand was not paid.
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
In late October, the Puntland government arrested five men of Ogadeni origin. These men came to Puntland using Somali travel documents provided by Somali authorities in Yemen.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
In response to reports that Kenya is recruiting youth to go and fight Somalia war, a Muslim clergy has cautioned Muslim youth not to allow themselves to be drawn by financial incentives and accept to undertake mercenary work outside the country.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The transitional federal government president Sharif Sheik Ahmed has held press conference in Mogadishu on Friday and said that he was very sorry for the misunderstanding between the TFG, Puntland and Ahlu Sunna.
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Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Al-Qaeda Somalia Abroad: A Threat to Israel and the U.S. PJM Earlier this month al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s dangerous Somalian proxy, threatened to attack Israel. “The Jews started to destroy parts of the holy mosque of al-Aqsa and they routinely kill our Palestinian brothers, so we are committed to defend our Palestinian brothers,” an al-Shabaab commander named Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur...
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The Whig (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
BBC: Deadly journey: Minneapolis to Mogadishu Minneapolis is very different from Mogadishu. Yet it is home to the largest group of Somali refugees in the country - more than 60,000 of them. It may seem like an odd place to settle if you are from the Horn of Africa. Over the past 18 months as many as 20 young Somali men have left the comfort of their new home in America to return to a war-torn Somalia....
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The president of Somalia's Puntland State has said that his government will play major role in the formation of more regional states that would help in stabilizing the Horn of African nation.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Si'ad known as (Inda'adde), the minister of state of the transitional government for the defense ministry has held press conference through the telephone in Kampala on Thursday and apologized the Islamic clerics of Ahlu sunna Waljama'a for the TFG president's statement on the clerics recently.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
At least 5 people have been wounded in Galka'o town overnight after big blast convulsed in north of the town in Mudug region, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Escalating violence in the Somali town of Galkayo, Mudug region, is creating a climate of fear, which in turn has adversely affected livelihoods, residents say.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
At least two government soldiers have been killed and more than five others have been wounded in a fire exchange between the transitional government troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The president of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland Mr. Abdirahman Mohamed Farole has Thursday said that he was very sorry for the misunderstand between him and TFG president Sharif Sheik Ahmed in their last meeting in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Residents of a coastal town in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland saved the crew of a fishing boat when they foiled an attempt by pirates, who had captured the boat, to sail away.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Piracy off the coast of Somalia was not only a criminal activity, but it was, first of all, a very successful business, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Political Office there told the Security Council today.
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careca | 01/08/2009
July 18: car until Phnom Penh (Cambodian capital); uneventful trip through the Cambodian countryside. The campaign, cad throughout except Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh is ugly, smelly and dangerous. Cambodia is a third world country and its capital has nothing to envy those of Somalia, or in Beirut. Result we cloitres at the hotel until the next morning. July 19: car until Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)...
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anonymous (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
An official source confirmed that an Islamic court sentenced a Somali adultery, buried alive ordered to the neck and then Bergmha Monday 27-10-2008, by the fifty men in the port of Kismayo (South), which is controlled by Islamist rebels since 22 August. Thousands gathered at a square in the main city to attend the stoning of Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow more
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petercasier | 10/07/2008
Most people in the UK are unaware of major conflict zones around the world, according to a new survey by the British Red Cross.
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