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Somali NEWS & ARTICLES

Critics say UN envoy to Somalia should resign

NAIROBI, Kenya – Since Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah became the U.N. envoy for Somalia three years ago, fighting in the capital has killed thousands of civilians, and extremists have carried out public stonings and amputations as they solidify their hold.

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Russian navy retakes oil tanker

A Russian defence ministry official said all 23 crew on board the China-bound tanker, which was seized on Wednesday with $52 million worth of crude oil onboard, were alive and well following the rescue.

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At least 45 dead in Somalia mosque attack

Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) -- Twin explosions at a mosque in Somalia's capital on Saturday killed at least 45 people and wounded many more, hospital officials and the African Union's peacekeeping force in the country said.

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Islamists seize pirate heaven in central Somalia

MOGADISHU, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Fighters of the Islamist Hezbul Islam group in Somalia on Sunday peacefully took over a pirate stronghold in central Somalia, reports from the region said.

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Somalia clashes leave many dead

At least 14 civilians have been killed during a battle between government soldiers and al-Qaeda-linked fighters, witnesses say.

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Violent extremists calling fighters to Somalia

Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) -- In Somalia's enduring chaos, militant groups have for years come and gone. Today's most powerful -- Al Shabaab -- are much more menacing, say those in Mogadishu.

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Somali leader calls for unity amid emerging rifts

MOGADISHU, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed called for unity among members of government and parliament as rifts have recently emerged over whether the office term of the Speaker of the legislature has ended, a statement from the presidency said Monday.

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Somalia rebels battle pirates, government troops

Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) -- Islamist rebels advanced on a pirate haven in central Somalia and battled government troops in Mogadishu in a clash that killed at least 10 people, ambulance crews and a local journalist reported Sunday.

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Somalia clashes kills 11, five headless bodies found

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The beheaded bodies of five builders have been found in Somalia's capital Mogadishu and at least 11 people were killed in fighting in the central region, residents and moderate militia fighters said Wednesday.

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SOMALIA: Journalists under fire

NAIROBI, 21 April 2010 (IRIN) - There are few countries in the world more dangerous to be a journalist than Somalia, where nine were killed in 2009, and 22 since 2005.

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Somalia: Al-Shabab must immediately free human rights activist

The Somali armed opposition group al-Shabab must immediately free a human rights defender it captured last week and stop its relentless attacks on other activists, Amnesty International said today.

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Somalia hits pause on edict that radio play music

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia's government on Tuesday backed off an order to close down radio stations in the capital that had obeyed an Islamist militia's order to stop playing music.

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Rights group slams brutality in Somalia

NAIROBI (AFP) – Somalia's Islamist armed group the Shebab has subjected people in the south of the country to killings, cruel punishments, and repressive social control, a rights group said Monday.

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Security forces arrest 113 Ethiopian immigrants in Puntland

MOGADISHU — Security forces in Somalia?s semiautonomous Puntland state arrested at least 113 illegal Ethiopian immigrants in a 48-hour raid in the coastal areas, officials said Friday.

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Obama addresses deteriorating Somalia security

Obama's action would allow the Treasury Department to sanction or freeze the assets of individuals involved in piracy off Somalia's coast or militants who have done anything to threaten the shaky nation's stability.

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Fighting in Somalia kills 18, wounds dozens

At least 18 people were killed and 57 wounded in fighting in the Somali capital of Mogadishu as the government marked National Army Day on Monday, a medical official said.

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Al Qaeda members land in Somalia from Yemen: government

NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least 12 al Qaeda members have crossed from Yemen into Somalia in the last two weeks, bringing money and military expertise to Somali rebels battling the Western-backed government, a senior Somali official said.

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SOMALIA: New taskforce to check AWD in Somaliland

HARGEISA, 1 April 2010 (IRIN) - UN agencies and health authorities in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland have set up a taskforce to check the spread of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD), which has broken out in several regions, killing several children and infecting hundreds of people.

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