By SAMWEL KOECH Three families whose loved ones are being held in Somalia by Al-shabaab militants have petitioned the government to help them in initiating talks that will help secure their release. Sergeant Jonathan Kangogo, Corporal Evans Mutoro, Edward Yesse Mule, a district officer attached to Burderi, Wajir South and Fredrick Irungu Wainaina were captured in...
MOGADISHU, Somalia ( AP) -The Somali traders in Mogadishu’s markets have long faced down Islamist rebels and warlords demanding money. Now they say there is a new predator: the government tax man. Militias extorted cash from civilians during much of the last two decades of chaos. Now Mogadishu has a government in place, but shopkeepers view...
(AGI) Modica – 20 Somali women and some very young children, who are staying at the ‘Refugee centre’ in the Sicilian town of Modica, staged a protest blocking a road in town right after midday on Sunday. The women were complaining about not finding any food in the hours following Ramadan. . Source: AGI
MOGADISHU / ISTANBUL- Three Turkish security officers who were wounded in a bombing attack on Turkish mission in Somalia arrived today in Ankara by a medically equipped airplane. The plane also carried the body of an officer who was killed in the attack. A car loaded with explosives rammed into the gates of an office...
ROME: Thirty-one migrants, including nine women, drowned off the coast of Libya during an attempted crossing to Italy according to survivors who managed to complete the journey, Italian media reported Sunday. A dinghy carrying 53 migrants capsized on Friday evening, and witnesses said 31 of those who had been thrown off it drowned in the...
A Turkish security official and a Somali student were killed in Saturday’s attack on the Turkish consulate and relief mission in Mogadishu, Somalia’s prime minister said Sunday. Three suicide bombers also died in the attack on Saturday, said Abdi Farah Shirdon, who also condemned the violence. He said acts of terrorism will not affect Somalia’s...
Muqdisho, july 28, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxaa ka mid ah,Ra’iisul wasaaraha Turkiga oo cambaareeyay weerarkii ismiidaaminta ahaa ee lala eegtay xaruntooda Muqdisho,Cabdi Faarax Shirdoon”Saacid” oo booqday goobtii lagu qarxiyay shaqaalaha Turkiga ee Muqdisho,Wasiirka arrimaha gudaha oo Barlamaanka ugu warbixiyay dagaalada Shabeelaha hoose iyo qodobo kale eoo caalami...
By AGGREY MUTAMBO Kenya will seek to lobby for the repatriation of Somali refugees and campaign for a seat at the UN Security Council when regional leaders converge in Nairobi on Wednesday for a security meeting. A diplomat at the Foreign Affairs ministry said the hosting of Somali refugees has become an unbearable “burden” and that...
By Barkhad Dahir in Hargeisa The Gaboye clan in the Somaliland region is taking steps to achieve greater political rights after facing years of political, social and economic marginalisation through tribal-based discrimination. A 16-member independent committee of traditional leaders, religious scholars and Gaboye clansmen on June 29th ended a month-long survey of Somaliland’s six regions...
By Feisal Omar and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, July 27 (Reuters) – A car loaded with explosives rammed into the gates of an office housing Turkish embassy staff in the Somali capital, killing three people, witnesses and police said on Saturday, the latest in a series of blasts over the past two months. “A suicide car...