By Drazen Jorgic MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s government is expected to recognise a former Islamist warlord it had opposed as interim leader of a strategic port city, diplomats said, defusing a crisis over rival claims to the post that had raised fears of a return to clan warfare. The threat of the kind of clan...
BBC News- A key al-Shabab leader in Somalia, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, has so far refused to surrender, elders from his clan have told the BBC Somali Service. The UN has reported that Mr Aweys has handed himself over to a pro-government administration in central Somalia after falling out with al-Shabab’s leader. But Mr Aweys...
Muqdisho, Juun 28, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxa ka mid ah, Ra’iisul Wasaare Saacid oo sheegay in ay ka hortagayaan qaraxyada ay fuliyaan Al Shabaab,Xaalada Xassan Daahir Aweys oo aan wali meelna udhicin,Bangiga Barclays oo waqti siinaya xwaaladaha Soomaalida ee macaamiisha ka ah,iyo qodobo kale oo caalami ah.
Nairobi (AP) – A terror suspect is killed in what police describe as a gun battle. Recovered weapons are displayed for the news media. Hours later another suspect accused of terror links is dead in what police call a shootout. Witnesses and the family of the dead tell a different story: That the suspects were...
Abdi Guled MOGADISHU ( AP) – : When a bank transfers money to Somalia, can it be sure it’s not sending money to terrorists? That question is forcing one of Britain’s largest banks to cut ties with the largest cash transfer bank in Somalia, a company that brings in the majority of the country’s $...
By A.C The Economist FOR providers of kidnap and ransom insurance (K&R in the lingo), the past few years have been good. Somali piracy alone generated some $200m in annual premiums at its 2010 peak, according to one underwriter. Abductions for profit or politics have soared from Nigeria to Nicaragua. High-profile cases have helped too:...
Muqdisho, Juun 27, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxaa ka mid ah, Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya oo kulan laqaatay wafdi kasocday dalka Norway oo Muqdisho gaaray, Qaraxyo ciidamada AMISOM lagula eegtay Kismaayo iyo rasaas goos goos ah oo magaalada laga maqlayo, Xildhibaano iyo odaayal Muqdisho katagay oo Cadaado kulan kula leh...
By Abdelkarim Hassan (WDN)- The capture of Sh. Hassan Aweys, the ailing senior leader of Al Shabab, poses a genuine test to President Hassan Sh. Mohamuod’s administration that enjoyed an international support since its inception. Aweys, a former Somali army cornel, top leader of the defunct Mogadishu Union Court and founder of Hisbul Islam who...
Muqdisho, Juun 26, 2013 (WDN)- Warka Radio Wardheer, Qodobbada warka aad ku maqli doontaan dhageystayaal waxa ka mid ah, Dagaal u dhaxeeya Maleeshiyaad taabacsan Barre Hiiraale iyo Maamulka Jubbaland ee Axmed Madoobay oo Kismaayo ka qarxay,Shiikh Xassan Daahir Aweys oo lagu hayo magaalada Cadaado ee maamulka Ximin iyo Xeeb, Madaxda dalka oo munaasabad Muqdisho ka dhacday...
By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU _______________ (Reuters) – At least three people were killed in a brief skirmish between rival militias in southern Somalia, witnesses said, the second deadly flare-up so far this month in the disputed strategic port of Kismayu. The clash between the Ras Kamboni militia and Marehan clan fighters has heightened tensions in...