Kenya: Kenya will host a major international conference in August to discuss on modalities of repatriating more than one million Somali refugees to their country. The conference, which will be held in the second week of August, will be co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya, Somali and UNHCR with the International Organization for Immigration (IOM) being invited. Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary [...]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The al-Qaida-linked militants who once controlled the southern port city of Kismayo are gone, but a fight for control of the city has broken out and at least 10 people have been killed in the recent violence. Kismayo is home to a contingent of militiamen and warlords, and five clan leaders [...]
Dhamaan dadka Soomaaliyeed meel ay joogaanba waxaan ku salaamayaa salaanta islaamka, Asalaamu Caleykum Waraxma tulaahi wa barakaatuhu, bacda salaam, codsi iiga yimid qaar ka mid ah asxaabteyda iyo kuwo ku xiran qoraaladeyda awgood, waxaan halkaan kusoo gudbinayaa qoraal aan turjumay, kaasoo ah mid horay dadka Soomaaliyeed ee akhristay iyo intii maqashayba si weyn uga careysiiyay. [...]
At least eighteen people have been killed in gun battles between rival militias in the Somali port city of Kismayo. Several former warlords are each claiming to be president of the newly established “Jubbaland state” which the central government in Mogadishu is opposed to. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called for an end to the [...]
Soomaalida dagan islii oo soo dhawaysay Xarun Cusub ee Fern Checking oo laga furay Hotel Shariifka islii, gaar ahaan Jum Street, Sawiro. Xaflad si wayn loo soo Agaasimay ayaa ka dhacay xaafada islii gaar ahaan Hotel shariifka oo ku yaala xaafada Jum Street ee magalada Nairobi. Xafladaan ayaa u jeedada loo qabtay waxay ahayd in [...]
Port Elizabeth police in the Eastern Cape have launched a manhunt for suspects involved in the killing of a Somali national in Booysens Park on Thursday. He was hacked to death while trying to protect his shop from looters. The area has seen three days of protests marred by looting and arson. On Friday, police [...]
MOGADISHU: Gunmen shot and seriously wounded a Somali journalist in the volatile southern port city of Kismayo, officials and colleagues said Thursday, the latest in a string of attacks against the media. Unidentified attackers shot Abdikadir Abdirasak Sofe — also known by his nickname “Jijile”, a reporter for London-based Royal TV – as he walked home after [...]
An American drone has crashed in a remote area of Somalia after it was reportedly shot at al-Shabaab militants. Pictures claiming to show the downed aircraft were posted on Twitter by the al-Qaeda-linked group, which celebrated the crash saying: “This one will no longer be able to spy on Muslims again.” A US defence department [...]
TOM WHITEHEAD – 28 MAY 2013 The suspected Woolwich murderer Michael Adebolajo made a second bid to travel to Somalia to join extremists there just last year. The alleged Islamist wanted to try again to head for the Jihadist hotbed after his first attempt failed in 2010. However, he was stopped from going by MI5 who warned he would be [...]
Hargeisa/Garowe, 23 May 2013-The Global Partnership for Education, the only multilateral partnership devoted to getting all children in school to receive a good quality education, had just approved significant grants which will provide a major boost to efforts to get more children in Puntland and Somaliland into the classroom. The grants of 4.2 million USD for [...]