Special Representative for Somalia Nicholas Kay. Photo: AU/UN/IST/Ilyas Abukar Condemning this morning’s attempted attack on Somalia’s Parliament, the United Nations envoy to the country has called on all Somalis to unite with the authorities to thwart future attacks and “bring to justice those behind this murderous campaign” of terror that has intensified since the start...
By BARBARA AMONG Greek carrier SkyGreece Airlines last week began commercial flights between various European cities and Mogadishu, two years after the first major commercial airline flew into the Somali capital. The airline’s maiden Mogadishu flight from Athens was the second international carrier to enter Somalia from outside East Africa since the country descended into war....
An Ethiopian opposition leader, who was sentenced to death while in exile for plotting a coup, has been extradited from Yemen to Ethiopia, his group says. Andargachew Tsege, who is also a British national, is secretary-general of the banned Ginbot 7 movement. The Ethiopian government allegedly requested his extradition after he was arrested in Yemen...
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that Somali pirates were still holding seven Indian seafarers as hostage and that it was holding extensive talks with the new Somali regime as well as neighbours of the terror ravaged country to seek their early release. In an affidavit, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said...
Two people were killed when a car bomb exploded near the Somali parliament building on Saturday, a few hundred metres from the presidential compound, a lawmaker said. Police said soldiers guarding the building prevented it from reaching its target. “The suicide car bomb was targeting the parliament entrance but it was fired on from all...
Addis Ababa – Ethiopia said on Thursday it wanted to extradite the leader of an outlawed opposition group arrested in Yemen to face terrorism charges. “He is a criminal, and he definitely will have his day in court,” government spokesperson Getachew Reda told AFP. Andargachew Tsige, secretary general of Ginbot 7 – labelled a terrorist...
British Muslims urged not to travel to Syria and Iraq as fears grow over homegrown involvement in terrorism A Briton who claims he has been fighting alongside jihadist militants in Syria has told the BBC he would not return to the UK until he could raise “the black flag of Islam” over Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. The...
THE Mpeketoni killings on June 15-16 that left 65 people dead was a terrorist attack and not politically instigated, according to a report by a Coast human rights organization. The detailed, 17-page report released yesterday by Haki Africa said investigations on the ground showed that the killings were carried out by the Somali al Shabaab...
SANA’A, The Ginbot-7 Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy, an outlawed political organization in Ethiopia, claimed on Monday that the movement’s secretary general Andargachew Tsegie has been detained in Yemen since June 23. According to the organization’s website, Tsegie was arrested at Sana’a International Airport while in transit from Ethiopia to London. Tsegie is an...
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab claimed responsiblity for shooting dead a lawmaker and wounding another, the latest in a surge of attacks in Mogadishu during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan. “This was a targeted assassination. We also wounded another MP and two body guards,” Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP. A witness said MP Ahmed Mohamud...