By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, June 29 (Reuters) – Dozens of people were feared killed in two days of fierce fighting for control of a strategic Somali port city, according to witness and militia accounts on Saturday, despite efforts to prevent the clashes escalating into broader clan warfare. Scores have died in sporadic fighting in Kismayu...
MOGADISHU (AFP) – Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab extremists have killed two of their own top commanders, one with a $5 million United States bounty on his head, the insurgents said Saturday. “We have informed their widows of their deaths, as they must now wear the clothes of mourning,” Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP. The...
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By JAMES RUSH Four men have been jailed for an attack on a mosque just a day after Drummer Lee Rigby was killed. Michael Manyweathers, 49, Jeremy Rochester, 33, Robert Mullins, 35 and Trevor Mullins, 38, each pleaded guilty to racially aggravated criminal damage after windows at the Dorset Islamic Cultural Association, in Poole, were broken...
Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least five people have been killed in two days of fighting in a strategic Somali port city, a militia commander said on Saturday, despite talks to end a leadership row aimed at stopping a slide back into broader clan warfare. The threat of the kind of clan fighting that...
By MARTHA DE LACEY The Prince of Wales and the prince of the long-distance athletics track Mo Farah today shared a joke about how the latter must surely be sick of winning medals by now. The Somali-born double gold medalist – who triumphed in both the 5,000m and 10,000m at last year’s London Games – laughed when...
For Immediate Release: June 28, 2013 Contact: Brigit Helgen, 202-228-6317 Statement from U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar on Somalia Independence Day Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar issued the following statement for Somalia Independence Day on July 1st: “I am honored to join Minnesota’s Somali community in celebrating the 53rd anniversary...
MOGADISHU, 28 June 2013 (IRIN) – As plans to facilitate the return of hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees from neighbouring Kenya gather steam, serious doubts persist about whether conditions in Somalia are conducive to such a large-scale repatriation operation. There are some 600,000 Somali refugees in Kenya, according to government figures, more than two...
By JAMES RUSH Counter-terrorism detectives have arrested a 75-year-old pensioner in connection with planting a home-made bomb which exploded outside a mosque. The elderly man was detained by West Midlands Police yesterday afternoon on suspicion of causing an explosion likely to endanger life or damage property. Officers were called to reports of a suspicious item at...