MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Three women were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday, and seven others were wounded when a remotely detonated bomb exploded in a busy market, police and witnesses said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the bombing. In recent weeks, al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgents have increased gun and bomb...
October 24, 2026
Category: Global News & Politics
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Only 3,000 out of 10,000 Somali refugees going home
Refugees from Dadaab camp in Kenya. They are being urged by the governments of Kenya and Somalia and the UNHCR to return home. File By FRED OLUOCH The first phase of the voluntary repatriation of Somali refugees will start this month despite the number of volunteers being only a third of what was expected when the...
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Libya’s most successful people smuggler: ‘I provide a service’
Human trafficking has gone from a niche business to a huge – and hugely profitable – industry since Gaddafi’s fall in 2011 By Nancy Porsia in Zuwara i Rescuers help refugees fleeing Libya after their boat crashed into rocks off Pantelleria, southern Italy in April 2011 – the year in which the collapse of authority...
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Seventy Ethiopians escape from Saudi prison
In this November 9, 2013 file photo shows members of Saudi security forces detain Ethiopian workers during a riot in Manfouha, southern Riyadh. (Reuters) Around 70 Ethiopians escaped from a detention center in Riyadh. “We have arrested 25 of them and the security authorities are in hot pursuit of the remaining detainees,” said Capt. Abdullah...
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Somalia: EU increases humanitarian aid to victims of the worsening crisis
©Agata Grzybowska The EU has released an additional €10 million for Somalia in response to the increasing humanitarian needs in the country. This brings EU humanitarian aid contribution for Somalia to €49 million in 2014. This funding will contribute to preventing a further deterioration of the serious food and nutrition crisis that Somalis are currently facing, and...
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Somalia’s police boss called ‘war criminal’ in Canada
Mogadishu’s new police commissioner was once wanted in Canada as a “war criminal” after a refugee and immigration board concluded he was “responsible for the ruthless torture of prisoners” while with Somalia’s police force in the 1980s. DAVID MUTUA / AMISOM PHOTO Somalia’s deputy minister of National Security Ibraahim Yarow Isaaq, centre, is flanked by...
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Somali lawmaker shot dead in Mogadishu, fifth this year
Somali federal government forces and African union peace keeping forces patrol in a street of Mogadishu on July 27, 2014, during a security operation. Image by: AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB Somali gunmen shot dead a lawmaker in Mogadishu Friday as he left prayers at mosque, police and witnesses said, the latest in a string of...
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Ethiopian photojournalist Aziza Mohamed held without charge
Aziza Mohamed was arrested while covering Muslim protests. (Facebook/Addis Guday) Nairobi, CPJ is alarmed by the detention of Addis Guday (“Addis Affairs”) photojournalist Aziza Mohamed, who has been in custody for two weeks without charge. Police arrested Aziza on July 18 while she was covering Muslim protests near Anwar Mosque in the capital Addis Ababa, local journalists...
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EBOLA FEARS NIX SIERRA LEONE TROOP TRIP TO SOMALIA
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A military spokesman for the African Union mission in Somalia says the AU has cancelled a planned troop rotation by Sierra Leonean forces because of the breakout of Ebola. Col. Ali Aden Houmed told The Associated Press late Thursday that the Union decided to halt the deployment of a new battalion...
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Somali-Americans, say no to hatred
By Omer Jamal Anti-Semitism reflects badly on our culture and gets us no closer to a Middle East solution. I am a Somali-American who is proud to make Minnesota my home — along with thousands in our community. I have served my native country as Somalia’s First Secretary to the Somali Mission to the United...