By Mark Doyle BBC News, in Gobweyn, Somalia When I saw the trenches and foxholes used by al-Shabab fighters on the front line just north of Kismayo, the war taking place inside Somalia suddenly became very real. I’ve always known that al-Shabab was an army as well as a radical group capable of the most...
A former Prime Minister of Somalia’s Transitional National Government (TNG), Dr Ali Khalif Galaydh, was among the survivors of the Saturday terror attack in Kenya, the Africa Review has established. Somali militants Al-Shabaab have claimed responsibility for the Saturday attack at Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, that has so far claimed 62 lives. Talking to...
Our losses are immense’ president says ; Five Islamists shot dead in Nairobi and 11 held Kenya’s president said today that his forces had “defeated” Islamists from Somalia’s al Shabaab, had shot five of them dead and detained 11 others suspected of killing 67 people after storming a Nairobi shopping mall. It remained unclear after...
The top United Nations official in Somalia today urged the international community to redouble its efforts to help defeat militant groups in the country, including Al-Shabaab, which reportedly claimed responsibility for last weekend’s terrorist attack in neighbouring Kenya. At a press briefing in Geneva, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, strongly condemned the...
Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed tells Al Jazeera deadly mall siege is work of al-Qaeda, not al-Shabab. The Kenyan foreign minister has told Al Jazeera that al-Qaeda is responsible for the ongoing siege of a mall in Nairobi that has killed at least 62 people. In an exclusive interview on Monday, Amina Mohamed said al-Shabab was not...
Opinion: How do we differentiate between human lives that are worthy of global outpourings of grief and those that are not? Samar Al-Bulushi for Africa is a Country, part of the Guardian Africa Network The masked gunmen who stormed Nairobi’s Westgate Mall on Saturday did one thing right. In targeting a site at the epicentre of elite consumerism in...
By Harold Maass The Islamist extremists from Somalia’s al Qaeda affiliate, al Shabab, staged a deadly attack on the upscale Westgate Mall in Nairobi over the weekend, and unconfirmed reports have said that three of the 10 to 15 terrorists were Americans. Al Shabab has succeeded in recruiting dozens of people from Somali expatriate communities...
Warka Raadiyo Wardheer: Qodobada warka aad ku maqli doontaan waxaa ka mid ah, Ismari waa wali ka jira xaruntii ganacsiga ee Westget oo ay wali ku sugan yihiin kooxihii halkaasi weerartay ee Al Shabaab.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan security forces were in the final stages of flushing out Islamic extremist terrorists from a besieged shopping mall, the vice president said late Monday, two days after the upscale mall was seized by members of a Somali group linked to al-Qaeda. It is unlikely that any more hostages remained inside Westgate...
By Peter Bergen and David Sterman Editor’s note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a director at the New America Foundation and the author of“Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden — From 9/11 to Abbottabad.” David Sterman is a graduate student at Georgetown University’s National Security Studies Program. (CNN) — Of all al Qaeda’s affiliated groups, the Somali terrorist organization...