BY ABDI SHEIKH omali Islamist militants drove a car bomb at a hotel in a town in central Somalia that was being used by African Union and Somali military forces, a resident and the militant group said. The al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab movement said its raid on Monday claimed many lives, but poor communications to...
Officials of Qatar Relief Alliance of Charitable Societies holding a meeting on relief projects. Doha: Qatar Relief Alliance of Charitable Societies yesterday announced the launch of phase II of relief projects in Somalia and the Philippines. Following visit findings, it has been agreed to implement recovery projects in Puntland in eastern Somalia to purchase cattle,...
AFP/AU-UN IST Photo/AFP/File – This handout photo released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team (AU-UN IST) shows AU troops standing on top of an APC on the outskirts of Burubow A convoy of the African Union’s AMISOM force was targeted by a car bomb just outside the Somali capital on Monday, witnesses and...
Wararka manta aan idiin heyno waxaa ka mid ah:Dglaalo ka dhacay qeyba ka mid ah Bay, xiisad colaadeed oo ka taagan Baardheere, Afhayeenkii maamulka gobalka Banaadir oo maanta xilkii laga qaaday loona magacaabayiyo warar kale
By Hamza Mohamed Mogadishu, Somalia – “Tow it away, tow it away!” shouts a short man at a group of men wearing white shirts and navy blue trousers. They are the Somali traffic police, and Ali Hirsi Barre – the short man with a larger-than-life personality – is the head of the department. His voice...
Kenya’s lead counterterrorism agency is working to stop another Westgate Mall-style terrorist attack – which many in Nairobi believe Somali militants will try again – on a shoestring budget: the Anti-Terror Police Unit in the capital has just US$735 to spend this month. Documents show that even after the September attack by al-Shabab on an...
By JECKONIA OTIENO Somali: Dhobley town on the Somalia-Kenya border was a stronghold of Al-Shabaab terrorists before they were kicked out by Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) forces under the aegis of the African Union Mission to Somalia ( Amisom). Since KDF and other Amisom forces moved into Somalia over two years ago and threw the...
Wararka maanta waxaa ka mid ah:Ciidanka dowlada oo la wareegay degmada Warsheeq ee Gobalka Sh/Dhaxe, Buula Burde oo howl-gal dad lagu soo qabqabtay laga sameeyay, aas qaran oo maanta Muqdisho loogu sameeyay marxuum Maxamed Saleebaan Tubeec oo ay ka qayb galeen ra’iisal wasaaraha Soomaaliyo iyo xubno labada Gole ka mid ah iyo warar kale
Kenya has deported three foreign men, accused of fighting alongside Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab insurgents, to Belgium to face trial on terrorism charges, diplomatic sources said Friday. The men, Belgian Mustapha Bouyabaren, Frenchman Rachid Benomari and Algerian Mohamed Said, were all jailed in July 2013 for a year after pleading guilty to entering Kenya illegally....
Some 6,000 families have fled towns in the Southern and Central parts of the country over the past few weeks after Somali government forces backed by 22,000 African Union soldiers began a nationwide offensive against al-Shabab, press tv reported. The United Nations says the displaced have fled the cities of Diinsoor and Baidoa in the...