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At least two people were killed and 17 others wounded as clashes between government forces and Islamic militants rocked parts of Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday, a local ambulance group said.
The clashes erupted around the city’s notorious Bakara...
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The common phrase beggars can’t be choosers applies to many circumstances in life. It applies to groups and nations as much as it does to individuals. If you...
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Together, they cut the image of four innocent youths—only until they narrated how they planned and executed the bomb attacks that left 76 people dead in Kampala last...
made popular Aug 13 2010
The poor Somali people. When you think it can’t get any worse, al-Shabaab comes along and pulls another rug from under their feet. They’ve banned pretty...
made popular Aug 9 2010
The shocking images of the Kampala bomb blasts that occured the 11th july 2010, now known as 7/11 are out and circulating as forwarded emails. The bombs claimed 74...
made popular Jul 19 2010
Al-Shabaab, the Somali militant group that claimed responsibility for the bomb blasts in Kampala on July 11, though born and bred in Somalia, is a many-faced beast that...
made popular Jul 16 2010
An explosion in a mosque in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu on Sunday killed at least one person and wounded about 10 worshippers, witnesses said.
“We...
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The UK’s permissive, politically correct attitude towards the Muslim extremists within their midst is clearly fomenting the fires of radicalism in that country....
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With the greedy, coastal pirates on the one hand, and religious militant groups like al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam on the other, Somalia is one humongous, violent mess....
made popular May 3 2010
There really are no words to describe Islamist extremist factions like Al-Shabaab and the Taliban and any others of their violent ilk. They’re certainly not...
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When it comes to the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist extremist group Al-Shabaab, not all the news coming out of Somalia is laughable. They have been banning some of the most...
made popular Apr 17 2010
The ultra-conservative, totally uncivilized, extremist militant group Al-Shabaab continue to drag Somalia further into the depths of ignorance and darkness. Some of the...
made popular Apr 16 2010
A majority of radio stations in southern and central Somalia today stopped playing music and jingles, to comply with a ban by Islamist militants.
Hizbul Islam, one of...
made popular Apr 16 2010
Ten days after an order to stop playing music and other lyrics was given to radios and TVs in Mogadishu, the media houses have complied. Even the tunes that played at...
made popular Apr 14 2010
It seems like there’s a parallel battle going on between the good and the bad Muslim youth of today. On the one hand you have those who are allowing themselves to...
made popular Apr 10 2010
I love music, not all genres, but my life without it would be totally bereft of joy. I can’t even imagine what it would be like not to be able to listen to some...
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At least 1,000 UPDF soldiers will leave next month for Somalia to replace one battalion which is coming home after one year of keeping peace in the war-torn Somali...
made popular Mar 24 2010
If I didn’t read something bizarre coming out of Somalia or Saudi Arabia every week I’d be very disappointed. Though my heart goes out to the people who are...
made popular Mar 6 2010
THE Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) has asked the UN to impose a no-fly zone on Somalia and block sea ports through which foreign groups supply...
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I have just been wondering if all these news doing rounds in our country about the Al-Shabaab have any water to hold but its like our security gate keepers were caught...
made popular Jan 20 2010
THE US has warned that “regional extremists” were planning an attack on Air Uganda flights between Southern Sudan and Kampala.
Uganda’s army said it was aware of...
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People are starving in Somalia and thanks to the Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab, those living in the south, where al-Shabaab rules, they will continue to do so....
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The UPDF has been shaken by the discovery that some of the battle-hardened Al Shabaab militants it is fighting in the volatile Somalia were trained here at...
made popular Dec 21 2009
What did this man intend to do with the kit used to train and sustain a fighting army? This is the question the Kenyan police is trying to answer after a shocking...
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Al Shabaab are not the only ones responsible for intimidation, violence and death in Somalia. A militant Islamic group Suna Waljameca, considerd to be...
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The death toll rose to 23 on Friday in a suicide bombing attack at a Somali graduation ceremony, which killed three members of Somalia’s U.N.-backed interim...
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According to sources, 23 year-old Mumin Abdikarim Yusuf , had been beaten and tortured before he was killed.
all of his front teeth were gone, and some of his fingers...
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Al Shabaab’s version of Shariah in Somalia rears it’s ugly head once again, demonstrating how barbaric some of those practices are, and how women are...
made popular Nov 19 2009
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has warned Islamist rebels who threatened to attack Kampala that they will pay a heavy price if they did so.
“Those groups, I would advise...
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The poor Somali people- not only are they living in chaos and subjected to violence, the once moderate Muslims are now being subjected to the indignities and religious...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Somalia’s hardline Muslim extremists have ordered women to shake their breasts to determine if they are wearing “un-Islamic” bras.
The orders have been...
made popular Oct 21 2009
Where in the Q’ran does it proclaim it is haram (forbidden) for women to wear pants? Or brassieres? Or burqas? In fact, where in the Q’ran does it forbid...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Even though the government has denied the information as media rumours, this is the second time that Kenya has been mentioned in issues regarding the militia and the...
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The Islamist group al Shabaab is forcibly removing gold and silver teeth from residents in southern Somalia because it says they contravene strict religious law, locals...
made popular Aug 11 2009
The US has put Eritrea on notice, and this time the message was brought closer home by Hillary Clinton who has been on an African tour.
Clinton who has been delivering...
made popular Aug 7 2009
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