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Gunmen opened fire on people leaving a mosque in Somalia’s capital on Sunday night, killing one of the country’s senior U.N. officials and wounding his son and another man, a witness and a family member said.
Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed his children three meals a day _ pancakes for breakfast, spaghetti for lunch and beans for dinner.
Hours of fighting in the Somali capital killed at least seven civilians, including three young siblings who were leaving a religious school when a mortar landed nearby, witnesses said Monday.
A World Food Program contractor was gunned down in the fifth fatal attack this year on one of the agency’s workers, the WFP said Tuesday as thousands of Somalis gathered to protest the assaults.
Gunmen shot and killed two Somali aid workers and wounded a third within 24 hours, witnesses said Saturday, in the latest sign of spiraling violence against workers struggling to deal with the war-ravaged country’s humanitarian crisis.
Somali insurgents killed at least two people in an overnight attack on an army base 15 miles northeast of the government headquarters in Baidoa, a village chairman said Thursday.
Somali insurgents killed at least two people in an overnight attack on an army base 15 miles (24 kilometers) northeast of the government headquarters in Baidoa, a village chairman said Thursday.
Witnesses say at least 20 people were killed and more than a dozen wounded during 24 hours of clashes in south and central Somalia.
Suspected Islamic insurgents kidnapped a Swede and a Dane on Saturday in a town in southwestern Somalia, residents and Sweden’s Foreign Ministry said.
A government minister says Somali gunmen have demanded $1 million for the release of a German couple, their young son and a French boat captain.
None heeds my pet peeve. Even though I have the likes of Jonathan Swift endorsing me. I have maintained that there are too many kids on this earth. Look wherever you will, there are just too many children swamping the place. They just will not leave...
The civil war in the African horn seems to be having no end in sight. When, international effort led by Ethiopian forces drove away Islamic militants out of the capital, Mogadishu in early 2007, some positive hope had developed. However the last few...
Somalia has always been one of the most unstable countries in Africa. But the present humanitarian crisis, according to many, rivals that in Darfur. What caused it?
The brief takeover of the country by the Islamists [Union of Islamic Courts] in...
The Horn of Africa has long been underlined as one of the strongholds of Islamic jihadists and extremists and the international community is stepping up pressure to resurrect the situation there. But, in the wake of the death of 17 civilians in the...
Many believe that going to Somalia is to kill or be killed but what if the guns are banned. The new mayor of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has banned people from carrying weapons on the streets.
Though the move is a big step forward in the...
Mogadishu has returned to a nightmare only seen in the early days of the civil war. The fighting is worst since the war over the New Year to kick out the Islamists and put President Abdullahi Yusuf’s interim government in the capital.
The...
An increasingly sophisticated insurgency and political intrigue returns Somalia to chaos and spread instability in a volatile region. Scores of residents fled their homes during a second day of fighting between Islamic insurgents and Somalian and...
Somalia’s history of 16 years of chaos and bloodshed is a perfect example of a stereotype of poor African governance. Battles between warlords and their militias, shifting from one dead heat to another, have crippled nearly every aspect of Somali...
At least four people were killed when a car sparked off in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, on Sunday. The blast took place quite close to a football stadium in northern Mogadishu.
Mohamed Hussein, a nearby shopkeeper, said,
When we heard...
So, there’s no way Al-Qaeda can set up its shop in Somalia. As the Islamist fighters are on the run from triumphant Somali forces and their Ethiopian allies, the US is carrying out further air strikes in southern Somalia against Islamist fighters, who...
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Somali’s demonstrate against high food prices, Monday, May 5, 2008 in the capital Mogadishu.Troops opened fire and killed at least two people among tens of thousands of people rioting over high food prices in Somalia’s capital Monday, a doctor and...
