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When I think of evil incarnate I think of groups like Al Shabaab, the Somali Islamist purveyors of violence and ridiculous fatwas. They are merciless, Soulless animals who have no compunction whatsoever of killing anyone including young children....
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It must be utterly wretched living in Somalia with the likes of al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam both of which are trying to turn the whole country into a living hell for...
made popular Oct 18 2010
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...
made popular Sep 27 2010
The international community sought to mobilize both greater and more coherent support for Somalia’s beleaguered government and for the African Union peacekeeping...
made popular Sep 24 2010
After a worrying setback when their Somali government allies deserted their posts, African Union troops in Mogadishu managed to contain the situation, but remain under...
made popular Sep 22 2010
Somalia’s Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke resigned on Tuesday, paying the price for the government’s failure to rein in an Islamist insurgency that...
made popular Sep 21 2010
Suicide bombers have attacked Somalia’s main airport in Mogadishu, killing soldiers and civilians, officials say.
The attackers used two cars - the first...
made popular Sep 10 2010
The president of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Sheikh Sharif Ahmed fired the country’s top military chief Monday due to allegations that...
made popular Sep 8 2010
A top United Nations official, Lynn Pascoe, the U.N. under-secretary-general for political affairs, says he is “hopeful” for Somalia, where the government...
made popular Sep 3 2010
At least 32 people were killed when gunmen and a suicide bomber dressed in army uniforms stormed a hotel in Mogadishu today in an attack that triggered an hour-long gun...
made popular Aug 26 2010
A suicide bomber and gunmen wearing military uniforms attacked a hotel near Somalia’s presidential palace Monday, sparking a one-hour gun battle with security...
made popular Aug 25 2010
At least 10 people are believed to have been killed in a powerful explosion in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
The dead were reported to have been anti-government...
made popular Aug 23 2010
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...
made popular Aug 19 2010
With the start of Ramadan - the Islamic holy month characterized by fasting - residents of Mogadishu are facing a difficult economic situation as well as the prospect...
made popular Aug 16 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 government announced Thursday that it has charged 14 people as participants in “a deadly pipeline” to Somalia that routed money and fighters from the...
made popular Aug 6 2010
The main international backers of Somalia’s government have pledged additional resources for the drive to defeat al-Qaida-linked militants trying to establish a...
made popular Jul 27 2010
The African Union summit opens in Kampala on July 19 amid heightened security following twin bomb attacks a week earlier.
The official theme of child and maternal...
made popular Jul 21 2010
An emergency official in Somalia’s capital says at least five people have died during a battle between Islamist militants and government forces backed by African...
made popular Jul 19 2010
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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
The cash-strapped Somali government is searching to recover funds locked in bank accounts around the world, in an attempt to stave off bankruptcy and fund a battle that...
made popular Jul 9 2010
As Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government struggles to maintain its loose grip over parts of the capital, Mogadishu, controversy is erupting over the use of...
made popular Jun 19 2010
A Netherlands court sentenced five Somali men Thursday to five years each in prison for trying to hijack a Dutch Antilles-flagged ship last year, the first ruling of...
made popular Jun 18 2010
Somali militants have threatened football fans they will be publicly flogged - or worse - if they are caught watching the World Cup on TV.
made popular Jun 15 2010
Somali pirates have released 25 mainly east European sailors and their ship more than six months after they were seized.
Bulgaria’s foreign ministry said the...
made popular Jun 12 2010
“Poor refugee”, the nephew of a ormer Somalian dictator has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old Melbourne girl on the same night he...
made popular Jun 5 2010
Soldiers from Somalia’s Puntland region stormed a Panama-flagged cargo vessel held by pirates, but gang members killed the captain in the operation, a minister...
made popular Jun 3 2010
German lawmakers have voiced concern about a deal between a German military security firm and a warlord hostile to the UN-backed government in Somalia.
Asgaard German...
made popular May 25 2010
Heavy shelling pounded Somalia’s capital on Sunday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, as parliament’s first sitting this year triggered a call...
made popular May 17 2010
Hizbul Islam fighters have attacked a clinic in Somalia.
On Wednesday, Hizbul Islam fighters attacked the clinic, which is run by Doctors without Borders (Médecins...
made popular May 6 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...
made popular May 3 2010
The UK’s permissive, politically correct attitude towards the Muslim extremists within their midst is clearly fomenting the fires of radicalism in that country....
made popular May 3 2010
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
The U.N. Security Council suggested on Tuesday creating special piracy courts to plug a gap in the world response to the costly attacks on merchant ships off the...
made popular Apr 28 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...
made popular Apr 22 2010
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
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Somalia’s hardline opposition leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, center , is escorted to a waiting verchile, Friday, April 24, 2009 in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Somalia’s hardline opposition leader accused of having al-Qaida links has ruled out...
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