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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...
made popular Dec 7 2009
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...
made popular Dec 5 2009
An explosion ripped through an upscale hotel in Somalia’s capital Thursday during a university graduation ceremony, killing three government Cabinet ministers and...
made popular Dec 3 2009
n Somalia’s main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a sort of stock exchange meets criminal...
made popular Dec 2 2009
Somali pirates have captured a tanker carrying oil to the US, officials say.
The Greek-owned Maran Centaurus was about 1,300km (800 miles) off Somalia when it was...
made popular Nov 30 2009
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...
made popular Nov 25 2009
Federal officials on Monday unsealed terrorism-related charges against men they say were key actors in a recruitment effort that led roughly 20 young Americans to join...
made popular Nov 24 2009
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
As Somalis struggle to survive the chaos that has overtaken their country, a network of companies that distribute money from the nation’s large diaspora has quietly...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Somali pirates on Wednesday seized a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean with 22 crew members on board, the European Union Naval Force said.
Naval spokesman Cmdr. John...
made popular Nov 11 2009
At least 8 people were killed and more than 17 others injured in Heavy fighting between Somali government forces and insurgents in south and northern Somali capital...
made popular Nov 9 2009
SOMALI pirates have threatened to kill three crew members taken hostage from a Spanish fishing vessel if two suspected pirates being held in Spain are not freed, the...
made popular Nov 7 2009
Militants who control parts of Somalia’s capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical brand of Islamic law, according to local...
made popular Oct 30 2009
Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112 years old, and his teenage wife.
made popular Oct 29 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...
made popular Oct 24 2009
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
The winners of a quiz organised by Somali Islamists have been given weapons and ammunition as prizes.
Prizes included AK-47 assault rifles, hand grenades and an...
made popular Oct 20 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...
made popular Oct 19 2009
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Picture released by the German Bundeswehr on March 4, 2009 shows Bundeswehr soldiers approaching pirates in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia on March 3, 2009, after frigate...
made popular Mar 5 2009
Things are turning ugly as the Somali pirates fortify themselves against foreign naval ships that are moving in to patrol Africa’s longest coastline. Militia men...
made popular Nov 25 2008
Indian Navy has shown the world once again after Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka and Operation Cactus in Maldives that it is one of the best in the world.
Only a few days...
made popular Nov 12 2008
Piracy in the Gulf of Aden has cost shippers between $18-30 million so far this year in ransoms and is threatening global business. Pirates have hijacked more than 30...
made popular Oct 3 2008
The Philippine government will formally declare the pirate-prone Gulf of Aden as risk zone after several hijacking incidents victimized almost 100 seafarers from the...
made popular Sep 30 2008
Somali pirates plying the Gulf of Aden in speedboats equipped with grenade launchers and scaling ladders have launched what the maritime industry calls the biggest...
made popular Sep 27 2008
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In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, a dolphin leaps from sea surface as a cargo ship of China Ocean Shipping Group Company (COSCO) sails in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia under the escort of a Chinese naval fleet (not seen in the...
