From Nima Elbagir, Lillian Leposo and Todd Schwarzchild, CNN Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) — When Ahmed Jama decided to leave behind the successful restaurant he’d started in London to open a new one in one of the world’s most dangerous cities, his hometown of Mogadishu, reactions ranged from surprise to scorn to straightforward questioning of his...
Muqdisho, july 18, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxaa ka mid ah, Zakariye Xaaji Maxamuud.Ugaas cabdi Wali iyo Cabdi Nuur Siyaad”Waal” oo beeniyay eedeeyn kaga timid kooxda Monitering Group,AMISOM oo ka hadashay bixitaanka ciidamada Itoobiya ee qaar ka mid ah gobollada dalka,Qaramada Midoobay oo ka digtay shidaal xilligan laga...
Mogadishu ( AP)- A military spokesman in Somalia says that government forces will help to replace Ethiopian troops who vacated a Somali town in recent days. The pull-out by Ethiopian troops from the town of Baidoa on Sunday and Monday increases the pressure on African Union and Somali forces to fill the vacuum before Islamist...
NAIROBI, 18 July 2013 (IRIN) – Over the past 20 years, clan elders in Somaliland’s Guurti, the upper house of parliament, have negotiated inter-clan disputes and kept the peace, carefully steering the self-declared republic away from the fate of south-central Somalia, which lapsed into a long, bloody civil war after the 1991 fall of the...
By ABDULKADIR KHALIF Mogadishu (AFP) A woman state administrator has been killed in Somalia and two reporters shot and injured in the war-torn country. The Deputy Commissioner of Somalia’s Yakshid District in north Mogadishu, Ms Rahma Dahir Siad, was killed near her home on Wednesday evening. The journalists, Mr Mascud Abdulahi Adan, of Dalsan radio...
(Reuters) – Egypt risks being engulfed in a civil war unless its newly installed interim government is expanded to include Islamists, the African Union warned on Thursday. The bloc, headquartered in Addis Ababa, suspended Egypt this month after the military ousted President Mohamed Mursi on July 3 following huge street protests against his rule. Alpha...
Muqdisho, july 17, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxaa ka mid ah, Ra’iisul Wasaare Saacid oo sheegay in ay mideynayaan dhamaan ciidamada hoos yimaada dowlada,Wasirrka warfaafinta Cilmooge oo ka hadlay sida ay dowlada Soomalaiya ugala macaamileyso arrimaha hawada Somaliland,qaar ka mid ah Saxafiyiinta ka howlgala Muqdisho oo dhaliilay sharciga...
PRESS RELEASE Mombasa, 17 July 2013-The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in collaboration with its partners has today started a meeting on information sharing in Mombasa, Kenya. The objective of the meeting is to set in motion and sustain a process of regular exchange of information and intelligence between AMISOM, the Somali security agencies...
By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Western commercial oil exploration in disputed areas of Somalia and discrepancies over which authorities can issue licenses to companies could spark further conflict in the African nation, U.N. monitors warned in a confidential report. In the U.N. Monitoring Group’s latest annual report to the Security...
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Eritrea is undermining stability in conflict-ravaged Somalia by paying political agents and a warlord linked to Islamist militants to influence the Mogadishu government, U.N. sanctions experts said in a confidential report. The Eritrean government has long denied playing any negative role in Somalia, saying it has no links...