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Dozens of heavily armed gunmen kidnapped two Italian aid workers and their Somali colleague in southern Somalia on Wednesday, a witnesses and diplomat said.
A village elder says gunmen have seized two Italian aid workers and their Somali colleague in an overnight attack.
Somali pirates hijacked a Jordanian ship carrying humanitarian aid to Mogadishu on Saturday in the latest in a string of attacks off the lawless Somali coast, the head of a seafarer’s association said.
Islamist fighters in Somalia have seized a town that is a major agricultural center, forcing hundreds of refugees to flee, a human rights leader said Saturday.
A human rights leader says Islamist fighters have seized a southern town in Somalia that is a major agricultural center, compelling hundreds of refugees to flee.
The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday calling for a U.N. political presence in conflict-wracked Somalia for the first time in years and setting conditions for the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers.
Insurgents attacked a Somali military base near the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Friday, and an ensuing gunbattle left at least six people dead and 13 wounded, witnesses said.
Police fortified their headquarters Friday in fear of another attack after Islamist fighters raided the station in the heart of the government’s Mogadishu stronghold.
Hundreds of youths in Somalia’s capital lobbed stones at shops and cars and set tires ablaze Tuesday in a second day of violence over soaring food prices.
Somalia remains one of the chaotic nations in the world where peace seems to hide its face away from the African nation. With the Islamist rebels gaining control of the country, I wonder how the crisis is being handled by its government? When will the...
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...
According to The Independent’s Steve Bloomfield, Somalia is the world’s forgotten catastrophe. The following quotation from Mr. Bloomfield’s article reveals the sheer magnitude of the east African country’s humanitarian and political devastation....
Despite of widespread poverty and illiteracy African countries are more interested in battles and genocides. If there is possibility of an Islamist group acquiring political power in a country its non-Islamic neighbour will be on the tenterhooks. The...
Somalia is easily one of the toughest places to live today. More than a decade of hard violence coupled with an irresponsible government playing to the arrogant tunes of the clan leaders lobbying for power and pride has left many millions lifeless....
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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 United Nations might be very concerned about the situation in Somalia but the world organisation is partly responsible for what is happening in the streets of Mogadishu and other places across the impoverished and war-ravaged country. Since the early...
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