Somalia News
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Mogadishu - A warlord in southern Somalia's Jubaland region has declared himself "president" of the region, leaders said on Thursday, shortly after the election of another militia commander to the post. With tensions already high, the move raised the risk of clashes between rival factions in the southern port city of Kismayo, a former stronghold of the al-Qaeada-linked Shabaab, where
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As many as 3 000 African Union peacekeepers have been killed in Somalia in recent years in an attempt to end an Islamist insurgency and bring stability to the Horn of Africa nation, a senior UN official said on Thursday. "I want to pay tribute to the countries and to their soldiers who paid such an enormously heavy price," the
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It has been two decades of mayhem, chaos and bloodletting in Somalia. A child born at the onset of the Somali crisis is now twenty one. Somalia has still a long way to go: the Al Shabaab are defeated, but they are not yet fully eliminated, and they still have the capacity to kill and to maim. The risks of
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Mogadishu, Somalia May 5, 2013 — At least 8 persons were killed and other 25 others wounded in two separate bombings Mogadishu on Sunday, Garowe Online reports. The bombings occurred one day after Mogadishu's main roads were reopened after a four-day closure by Somali government forces, due to a high level security alert regarding car bombings, security sources tell Garowe
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Khartoum - Dozens of people have been killed in a gold mine collapse in Sudan's Darfur region, said the chief of the district where fighting over gold in January led to the region's worst unrest in years. "The number of people who died is more than 60," Haroun al-Hassan, the local commissioner in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, said on Thursday.
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Mogadishu - Al Qaeda-linked Somali militants who have dug into parts of the northern Puntland province pledged vengeance after authorities in the autonomous region executed 13 suspected Islamist rebels. Puntland long avoided being caught up in successive Islamist insurgencies that have shattered Somalia but has slowly been infiltrated by al Shabaab rebels squeezed out of former south-central urban redoubts in
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Bosasso - Somalia's northern Puntland province executed 13 suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants on Tuesday, a military court official said, and security forces deployed heavily in the coastal city of Bosasso to ward off any reprisal attacks. Squeezed out of their strongholds in southern and central Somalia by a military offensive, al-Shabaab rebels have slowly infiltrated Puntland, a semi-autonomous region that had
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Officials in East Africa say a report to be released this week estimates that 260 000 people died in Somalia's 2011 famine, more than double previous estimates. The report by two US government-funded famine and food agencies gives the highest toll from Somalia's 2011 famine. One previous estimate said between 50 000 and 100 000 people died. A Western official
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Mogadishu — Lul Mohamed, director of the paediatric ward at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, treated five children after two bomb attacks killed 30 people on 14 April. "And they were shooting last night. One died, a bullet in his liver," she said of an eight-year-old boy. Yet these are conditions of relative peace in Mogadishu. While the
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Mogadishu — Somalia's al-Shebab rebels have threatened further attacks after coordinated bombings and shootings that killed at least 30 people in Mogadishu at the weekend. Al-Shebab spokesperson Ali Mohamud Rageh told the media that their fighters will double the number of attacks against the government. Rageh insisted that the court which his fighters attacked has in the past carried out
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Mogadishu - Somalia's police force launched a major security operation on Monday searching for explosives and weapons, a day after a spectacular suicide attack by Islamist insurgents in the city. "There is a major security operation under way in Mogadishu," said senior police official Mohamed Hassan. "So far more than 400 people have been detained, the operations are aimed at
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Mogadishu - Nine al-Shabaab Islamic extremists, most wearing suicide vests, stormed Somalia's main court complex on Sunday while the Supreme Court was in session, firing a barrage of bullets during a running gun battle with security forces that lasted two hours, officials said. A preliminary death toll stood at 16, including all nine attackers. The assault was the most serious
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After months of denial, Somalia's government has for the first time acknowledged that its security forces were involved in rape cases that drew an international outcry by human rights groups. Army commanders often denied accusations that soldiers were involved in a spate of rapes, blaming the crimes on the Islamic extremist rebels of al-Shabab who wore army uniforms to smear
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Mogadishu - Three private radio stations in Somalia's northern Puntland region have been ordered to shut, prompting an angry reaction from journalists claiming the local government was muzzling press freedom, officials said on Thursday. Mohamoud Aideed Dirir, information minister of the semi-autonomous state, said the three stations had "violated Puntland's constitution and media laws" for re-broadcasting programmes from other stations.
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Mogadishu — Somali gunmen killed a female radio journalist in Mogadishu, the latest in a string of reporters murdered in the war-ravaged capital, colleagues and witnesses said on Monday. Two men shot dead Rahmo Abdukadir, who worked for the private Radio Abduwaq station, late on Sunday. "One of our female staff members was shot and killed in Mogadishu," said radio
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Mogadishu - A militant official and a Somali resident say al-Shabab fighters have stoned to death a man for carrying out a homosexual sex act. The resident, Yusuf Abdi, said the group buried a blindfolded man to his waist last Friday and threw stones at him until he died. An al-Shabab official said one of its judges sentenced the man
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Mogadishu - Isaq Ahmed lifted his head from his hands, his eyes clouded with tears, as he looked at the crowd gathered near the twisted wreckage from a car bomb blast that ripped open buildings and killed at least seven people in Somalia's capital this week. As smoke filled the air, the 30-year-old car washer recalled another suicide blast that
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Hargeisa — Hundreds of households in the disputed Sool area of the self-declared republic of Somaliland are facing a water shortage following poor rains, say officials. Both Somaliland and the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland claim the Sool and Sanaag regions. "We believe an estimated 3,000 households are facing water shortages in [the] Sool Region," Mohamed Mousa Awale, chairman of
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Hargeisa — The north western breakaway region of Somaliland, expressed discontent over the UN Security Council decision to partially lift the 21 year old arms embargo ban on Somalia, Garowe Online reports. The Somaliland government's Foreign Affairs Minister, Mohamed Abdullahi Omar, spoke to BBC Somali Service on Thursday and stated that the Security Council did not evaluate the consequences of
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At least two people were killed and several wounded in twin attacks at a restaurant on the popular beachfront of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, witnesses and police said Friday. The blasts, the latest in a string of attacks in the war-ravaged city, reportedly included a car bomb followed shortly after by an attacker wearing a suicide vest packed with explosives. “There
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Somali government forces with the support of AMISOM troops have captured the towns of Dardan and Jirada-Kullow in Bay region in simultaneous dawn operations. The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia, Ambassador Mahamet Saleh Annadif, said the latest operations would help alleviate the suffering of the Somali population. He said AMISOM would continue to
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The Dutch and Spanish navies on Tuesday detained nine alleged pirates off the Somali coast, the Dutch defence ministry said in a statement. A helicopter took off from Dutch frigate De Ruyter early Tuesday after a Panamian-registered vessel said it had felt threatened. The helicopter intercepted one high-speed boat and detained “some” of the suspects, the ministry said. Spanish frigate
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Somalia's foreign minister urged the UN Security Council on Thursday to lift the 20-year-old arms embargo on the country so that its armed forces can fight off al-Qaeda linked militants and consolidate peace. The foreign minister addressed the council amid allegations that Iran and Yemen have supplied weapons to the Somali militant group al-Shabaab. Iran rejected those allegations as an
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A statement issued Sunday by AMISOM said a team comprising the Political, Civil Affairs and Gender units toured Baidoa, Beletweyne and Kismayo and held a series of assessments and engagements. The statement said the team met with political leaders, civil society and women groups from the regions as well as AMISOM personnel on the ground. The political team met with
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Mogadishu - Somalia on Tuesday jailed for one year a woman who said she was raped by security forces and a journalist who interviewed her, saying they were guilty of insulting the state. "We sentence her for offending state institutions by claiming she was raped," judge Ahmed Adan told the court in the capital Mogadishu. "She will spend one year
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