BERLIN — German police have arrested an asylum-seeker alleged to have acted as an accountant for Somali pirates who seized an oil tanker in 2010. Lower Saxony state police say the man, identified only by the initial ‘M’, was arrested Wednesday at a refugee center in the central city of Giessen. olice said the man’s...
Puntland Government warns strongly against the renewal of political infighting amongst the Federal Institutions of Somalia, as a group of MPs is attempting to bring a motion against Somali Prime Minister H.E. Abdi Farah Shirdon after only seven months in public office. This attempt wastes time, resources, and the joint efforts Somali stakeholders and international...
By: Boodhari Warsame If only I could remeber exactly which year or month was it, but it was indisputably an infamous day in my childhood. On that day, I , as usual, came back from Dugsi for one of those highly coveted daily quraac breaks, extremely hungry and angry at everybody, including the merciless macallin...
From Nima Elbagir, CNN Editor’s note: CNN correspondent Nima Elbagir, has been reporting on Somalia since 2006. Last week she was given a rare interview with the president and rode with his security convoy as he visited a militant stronghold on the outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu, in defiance of the continuing threats on his life. Mogadishu (CNN) —...
A Somali man seeking asylum in Germany under a false name ended up charged with piracy after authorities matched his fingerprints with those taken from a German ship hijacked in 2010, according to media reports. The unnamed man was arrested in the German city of Giessen after the routine fingerprint check, reported the Neue Osnabruecker...
Nine defendants who worked to aid homeland deny they are terrorists, claiming they were unaware of Al-Shabab’s atrocities. By Randy Furst randy.furst@startribune.com The fate of nine Somali Americans from Minnesota who cast their lot with the Somali insurgency in a chaotic civil war will be decided this week in three days of hearings before U.S....
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Rights activists say an upsurge of gang rapes has hit the breakaway region of Somaliland – a normally peaceful enclave considered a sanctuary from the decades of violence in Somalia’s civil war. Fathia Hussein Ahmed, chairwoman of Somaliland’s national human rights commission, said at least 84 women have been raped since...
Last night I went for a stroll in Mogadishu. For twenty-odd years the dusty streets of this infamously dangerous city have emptied in a furious hurry at sunset. In the relentless dark, clan militias or Islamist militants would set up their roadblocks – shadowy figures illuminated by the occasional headlights of an army pick-up. Only...
Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud enjoyed a luxury trip to London – all at the British taxpayer’s expense. The president stayed at The Dorchester hotel with his entourage of five minsters and 14 assistants while he attended a conference at Lancaster House to receive aid for his war-torn country. According to The Sun, President Mohamud,...
By Rohit Kachroo and Keir Simmons, NBC News Somalia has long been defined by terrorism, famine, and piracy. But as the United States this week pledged another $40 million towards its recovery, Somalia’s leaders said the country had finally turned a corner in the fight against the al Qaeda-linked militant group, al-Shabab. “A bright future...