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- Foreign journalists abducted in Somalia, UN denounces clashes
- MOGADISHU AFP — Gunmen abducted two freelance journalists, an Australian man and a Canadian woman, near Mogadishu Saturday, as the UN envoy to Somalia condemned recent violence in the port city of Kismayo. The pair, both freelance reporters, were abducted on a road between Mogadishu and Afgoye, about 25...
- Research articles 2008-08-23
- Islamists seize key Somali port
- MOGADISHU AFP — Islamist fighters wrested back control of Somalia's southern port of Kismayo on Friday following three days of bloody battles with a local militia that left at least 41 people dead, witnesses said. The retaking of the town by the Islamists came more than a year after...
- Research articles 2008-08-22
- Toll rises after Somalia bus shootings
- MOGADISHU AFP — At least 39 people have been killed in recent incidents involving Ethiopian troops in Somalia, hospital sources and witnesses said Saturday. Ethiopian forces opened fire on two minibuses near the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 30 passengers. Ten people injured in the...
- Research articles 2008-08-16
- Somali Islamist leader urges withdrawal of Ethiopian forces
- DJIBOUTI AFP — Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed called for the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces in the war-riven country to boost efforts aimed at restoring stability. Ahmed, who spoke on Saturday at the end of a week-long gathering of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia ARS --...
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- US condemns killing of UN envoy to Somalia
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US State Department on Monday condemned the murder of a top United Nations envoy in Somalia as "a brutal act" aimed at silencing moderates who seek peace. Gunmen shot and killed Osman Ali Ahmed, the head of the UN Development Program UNDP in Mogadishu, and...
- Research articles 2008-07-07
- Pirates kidnap four tourists off coast of Somalia: officials
- MOGADISHU AFP — Pirates kidnapped four foreign tourists, including a woman and a child, while they were sailing off the coast of Somalia's northern Puntland region, officials said Tuesday. The four, whose identities were not immediately clear, were seized on Monday near the coastal town of Lasqorey, Puntland senior...
- Research articles 2008-06-24
- Somali Islamists rejects new truce agreement
- MOGADISHU AFP — A senior Somali Islamist leader, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, on Tuesday rejected a three-month truce reached between Mogadishu and its main political foes at UN-sponsored peace talks in Djibouti a day earlier. "I do not believe that the outcome of this conference will have any impact...
- Research articles 2008-06-09
- AP-contributing local journalist killed in Somalia
- MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Gunmen in southern Somalia fatally shot a local journalist who had been a contributor to various news organizations including The Associated Press and the British Broadcasting Corp., his wife and a doctor said Saturday. Nasteex Dahir Farah, 26, was shot several times in the chest...
- Research articles 2008-06-08
- Somalia president links Ethiopia pullout to UN deployment
- DJIBOUTI AFP — Somalia's president told a UN Security Council mission Monday that a UN peacekeeping mission must be deployed in his country before Ethiopian troops can withdraw. "The eventual withdrawal of the Ethiopian troops from Somalia is contingent on the deployment of the United Nations peacemaking force and...
- Research articles 2008-06-02
- Somali pirates seize cargo vessel: owner
- NAIROBI AFP — Somali pirates have hijacked a Panama-flagged cargo freighter off Somalia as it was sailing to the Romanian port of Constanza, its owner and a Kenyan maritime official said Monday. "A ship owned by Dutch Reider Shipping was boarded off the coast of Somalia by pirates... The...
- Research articles 2008-05-26
- MARITIME PIRACY : COMMISSION CALLS FOR COMBINED EFFORT FROM MEMBER STATES.
- Faced with the repeated acts of maritime piracy, particularly off the coast of Somalia, cooperation between European countries on this issue should be reinforced. At least this is the wish of the European Commission in response to several questions from MEPs and journalists. "Keeping...
- Research articles 2008-05-23
- Two Italians among three aid workers kidnapped in Somalia: officials
- MOGADISHU AFP — Three aid workers -- two Italians and a Somali -- were kidnapped by gunmen Wednesday in Somalia's Lower Shabelle region, a security official and a local elder told AFP. "Three aid workers, among them two Italians, a man and a woman, were kidnapped early this morning...
- Research articles 2008-05-20
- Somalia peace talks to get underway in Djibouti: UN
- NAIROBI AFP — Somali government officials and exiled Islamist opposition leaders are to hold face-to-face peace talks in Djibouti, the United Nations special envoy to the country said Friday. Ahmed Ould Abdallah said the UN-sponsored talks will start on Saturday, sitting seven members of Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein's...
- Research articles 2008-05-09
- Pentagon confirms strike on Al-Qaeda leader in Somalia
- WASHINGTON AFP — The Pentagon confirmed Thursday a US military attack against an Al-Qaeda military leader in Somalia but declined to identify him. "The US Central Command has conducted an attack against a known Al-Qaeda target and militia leader in Somalia," spokesman for the Defense Department's Central Command, Lieutenant...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- US air strike kills Al-Qaeda leader in Somalia: officials
- MOGADISHU AFP — A US air strike in Somalia killed at least 12 people on Thursday, including a man said to be Al-Qaeda's military leader in the war-torn country, Ethiopian officials and rebels said. The militant leader was named as Moalim Aden Hashi Ayro who trained with Al-Qaeda in...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Eight killed in air strike on Somalia Islamists: residents
- MOGADISHU, AFP — An air strike in central Somalia on Thursday, which insurgents blamed on the United States, killed at least eight people, including two top Islamists, a Somali rebel spokesman and residents said. The Somali government said one of dead Islamists was an Al-Qaeda nominated leader in the...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Seized Spanish trawler sails out to the ocean: Somalia witnesses
- MOGADISHU AFP — Pirates holding hostages on a Spanish trawler off the coast of Somalia are sailing deeper into the Indian Ocean after local residents threatened them, local witnesses said Thursday. The pirates took supplies from the port town of Haradere and sailed off headed for the deep ocean...
- Research articles 2008-04-24
- Dilemmas Of The Horn
- Washington wanted to keep Somalia from turning into another Afghanistan. Now it’s an African Iraq. The jihadist leads a double life. By day he’s a government functionary in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Standing in the shade of a crumbling, Mussolini-era balcony, a phone headset clipped to his ear,...
- Research articles 2008-04-21
- More bodies found in aftermath of heavy Mogadishu clashes
- MOGADISHU AFP — Mogadishu residents on Monday found nine more bodies after a weekend of clashes in the war-riven Somali capital subsided. Eight decomposing corpses lay near Al-Hidaya Mosque in northern Mogadishu and another was spotted near a stadium in the south of the capital, bringing the toll from...
- Research articles 2008-04-21
- Pirates attack Japanese tanker near Yemen
- TOKYO AFP — A major Japanese oil tanker was damaged Monday in a chase by heavily-armed pirates off the coasts of Somalia and Yemen but no one was injured, officials and crew members said. The attack came a day after a Spanish tuna fishing boat carrying a crew of...
- Research articles 2008-04-21
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