Somali President, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed visited Hotel Muna, the site of today’s suicide attack carried out by Al Shabab militants, killing at least 33 people including 6 lawmakers. “Al-Shabab’s »
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SOMALIA: SRSG strongly condemns suicide attack in Mogadishu
Nairobi, 24 August 2010 – The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ambassador Augustine P. Mahiga, has condemned in the strongest possible terms the attack on a Mogadishu hotel today in which »
SOMALIA: President Sheikh Sharif condemns Al Shabab suicide attack on Hotel Muna
On Tuesday, Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed condemned the suicide bombing at hotel Muna in Mogadishu that killed at least 33 people including Somali MPs. "…We condemn this heinous attack, »
SOMALIA: Al Shabab claims suicide attack on Mogadishu Hotel
Al shabaab militants attacked hotel Muna, near the Presidential palace, in the Somali capital –popular with MP’s and government ministers. The assault lasted almost half an hour, with fighters »
SOMALIA: Suicide attack kills 15 in Mogadishu Hotel
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a hotel on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people, officials said. Hotel Muna is popular with Somali MP’s in the capital, according to eyewitnesses one suicide »
SOMALIA: Heavy fighting resumes in Mogadishu
Heavy fighting between the Somali government forces and insurgent group Al Shabaab resumed early on Tuesday morning, more than 20 people were killed in the fighting, on Monday. According to medical »
SOMALIA: Danish Refugee Council concludes 30 projects in Puntland
A handing over ceremony organized by the Danish Refugee Council in Somalia was held in Bosaso Puntland, on Monday. The ceremony was to mark the conclusion of 30 humanitarian and »
SOMALIA: Government says Alshabab mortars kill civilians in Mogadishu
The Transitional federal government of Somalia, have accused Al Shabaab militants of killing civilians in Mogadishu shelling, on Monday. More than 15 people died and at least 80 injured in mortar »
SOMALIA: Failed Al Shabaab attack proves Ramadan terror threat
Press Release An estimated eleven Alshabab members died in the last 24 hours in Mogadishu in two separate incidences while planning to carry out attacks during the holy month of Ramadan. At »
SOMALIA: JAR Calls for Punt land Authorities to release Mr.Abdifatah Jama
JAR Calls for Punt land Authorities to release Mr.Abdifatah Jama, whom was jailed for six years in prison  with out possible Legal judgment & fined 500$ cash. UN, Human rights »
Somalia: Are Somali Americans snared victims of Al Shabab or Terrorist?
By Dr.Yusuf O. Al-Azhari There has been recently, highly promulgated row on finding few Somali Americans who were prosecuted as being sympathetic to Al Shabab terrorist group. The US Justice »
SOMALIA: CPJ calls on Puntland Authorities to release jailed Journalist
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001 | Phone: (212) 465-1004 | Fax: (212) 465-9568 | Web: www.cpj.org CONTACTS: Tom Rhodes:Â trhodes@cpj.org | Mohamed Keita: »
SOMALIA: Somali Government concerned over journalist’s arrest in Puntland
Press release The Ministry of Information of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) expresses its concern on the six-year jail term handed to Abdifatah Jama Mire, Director of Horseed Media, who »
SOMALIA: Why President Farole needs not to take lightly to reconcile with his people
I remember at the tender age of 28, barley two years after my graduation from Poona University in India, I was the acting Director at the Somali Affairs Department in the Foreign Ministry when on 29 »
How Ethiopia rid itself of extremists and got the balance right
By: Abdullahi Dool There is confusion which is threatening the existence of the universe. Nearly 10 years ago thugs in the form of Al-Qaeda have attacked the United States and demolished the World »
SOMALIA: Puntland court sentences Media director to 6 years
Abdifatah Jama Mire, the deputy director of Horseed Media, was sentenced to six years in jail and $500 dollars fine by the Bosaso district court, on Saturday. Abdifatah Jama Mire, was arrested »
SOMALIA: NUSOJ Condemns 6-year jail sentence against media Director in Puntland
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns in strongest terms possible the 6-year jail sentence handed today to Abdifatah Jama Mire, Director of Horseed Media, by the Puntland »
SOMALIA: Puntland police storm Horseed Media FM station
Heavily armed police officers stormed into Horseed Media FM radio station in Bosaso and arrested eight journalists, on Friday afternoon. The deputy director of Horseed Media, Abdifutah Jama Mire, »
SOMALIA: SYL The Deferred Dream
By M. J. Farah Roughly half a century ago, there was a group of very ambitious young Somalis who wanted to dedicate their lives to putting their nation into a forward trajectory. They had the will »
SOMALIA: Why “Somaliland†is not Kosovo: the case of the failed recognition
By: Abdulkadir Mohamoud:- Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo who was for 13 years (1969 -1982), the Minister of Planning and later on the Minister of Commerce in President Mohamed Siad Barre’s government was »
Al- Sharq Al Awsat Newspaper Presented a Fictitious Somalia “Memo†As Factual News
Mogadishu, Somalia: Â Al- Sharq Al Awsat Newspaper published on August 7, a wholly fabricated memo purportedly signed by the Somalia President. This document is also published by some mainstream »
UN: SRSG announces increased presence inside Somalia
The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ambassador Augustine P Mahiga, has said he is hopeful that increased representation from his office inside Somalia will help advance the peace process in the »
14 charged for supporting Somalia terrorist group
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 United States to the terrorist group »
Chicago man accused of plotting to aid al-Qaida
A 26-year-old Chicago man who claimed to be inspired by a radical Muslim cleric was charged after the FBI uncovered his plot to go to Somalia to become a suicide bomber for al-Qaida and another terror »
More troops are promised to fight the Shabab Islamist militia
Somalia and the African Union Be beefier THE African Union (AU) agreed this week to strengthen its peacekeeping mission in Somalia. Two thousand troops from Guinea and Djibouti are to be made »
SOMALIA: Puntland islamist leader pledges allegiance to al-Shebab
Sheikh Mohamed Said Atom an Islamist leader based in the remote mountains village of Galgala (North east of Somalia) pledged his allegiance to al-Shebab after his militia clashed with Puntland forces, »
Somalia: The Dilemma of ‘Peacekeeping’
By Faysal Abdikarim:- The recent Kampala bombing claimed by Alshabaab, Somalia’s notorious Islamist insurgents fighting the government, has left alarm bells ringing in the troubled Horn of »
SOMALIA: UN & International Community Share Collective Responsibility
By Dr.Yusuf O.Al-Azhari When the former special envoy of the UN Secretary General Ahmed Wad Abdalla was encompassed exclusively by concocting political group of a well known Somali Clan, in mid »
Somali lessons for Afghanistan
Whenever western leaders ask themselves the question, why are we in Afghanistan, they come up with essentially the same reply – “To prevent Afghanistan becoming a failed state and a haven for »
SOMALIA: Somali President and US Assistant Secretary of State Met in Kampala [Photos]
The President of Somalia Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and US Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson met this evening in the sidelines of the AU Summit in Kampala. Ambassador Carson briefed the Somalia »