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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 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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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) | 11/18/2009
The Transitional Federal Government officials have said that they captured several people charging that they were creating insecurity situations in the Somali capital Mogadishu, official told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
European Union nations are supporting a plan to train Somali security forces in Uganda next year, as the interim government in Mogadishu struggles to maintain control over the embattled country.
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
MOGADISHU, Somalia - As a Spanish warship looked on, a $3.3 million ransom was delivered by boat today and Somali pirates freed a Spanish trawler and its 36 crew members. Spain's...
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GayandRight (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
We already know some Somalis from Minnesota have gone over to fight... Counterterrorism officials are investigating a group of youths who allegedly left Canada for East Africa two weeks ago, amid concerns they may have gone to join the Somali militant group Al-Shabab. Two sources familiar with the case said investigators had been canvassing Toronto's large Somali-Canadian community for information...
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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
For nearly a year now, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia has been waging a life or death struggle for survival against the repeated assaults of a radical Islamist opposition; an opposition that remains unsatisfied with the appointment of a fellow Islamist as president and the implementation of Shari’a as the law of the land. Led by the former leader of the Islamic Courts Union...
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Ethiopia Watch (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Radio Warsan and Jubba Radio in Baidoa are closed since 21 October 2009. Currently the compound of Radio Warsan is being occupied by the Al-Shabaab armed men. From IFJ (MOGADISHU, Somalia) November 16, 2009/(APO): IFJ deplores upsurge of attacks against journalists and media houses in Somalia The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the upsurge of attacks against journalists...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Former Mogadishu mayor who was also the Governor of Somalia's embattled Banadir region has lambasted the fragile Transition Somali government over its ineffectiveness to control the war-torn country.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Fighting between the Islamist fighters and African Union troops AMISOM started around Kulliyadda Jale Si'ad, a large base for the Burundians forces in Mogadishu overnight, just as calm returned in areas where the clashes broke out in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
At least seven people have been killed and 11 others injured in heavy clashes between African Union peacekeeping forces and Somali insurgent fighters in the restive capital Mogadishu, witnesses said on Sunday.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Abdukadir Mohamed Walayo, the spokesman of the transitional government PM has said that a United Nations office will be reopened in Mogadishu, just as the deputy representative of the UN secretary General for Somalia Charles Petrie visited the capital on Thursday.
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Gunmen have killed a top Somali judge who had sentenced many pirates and human traffickers to long jail terms, the security minister for northern Somalia...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Nairobi/Mogadishu - A Somali judge who sentenced four men with links to Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab to jail terms has been shot dead in the semi-autonomous Puntland region, local media reports said Thursday. Radio Garowe said armed and masked...
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