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...
Ismail Haji Warsame Puntland State of Somalia suspends its planned and ill-prepared multi-party elections, following local political violence where scores of people lost their lives and many others were hurt. The ruling political elite, who initially half-heartedly embraced the idea of pluralism on “My way or the highway” approach by using the instruments of political coercion,...
Abdulkadir Abiikar Hussein There are few positive activities that the current Somali government carried out, and most of these are related to the international community wanting to bring back Somalia to a normal condition and helping it to move away from the failed-state status. Turkey, EU, USA and the African Union worked very hard to...
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...
Press release Whilst patrolling the seas off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden, EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Somalia Operation Atalanta warships often visit regional cargo and fishing dhows operating in these waters. These ‘friendly approaches’, as they are known, are a chance for the EU Naval Force to reassure local...
A soldier walks away from a burning car after it exploded in Sanca in Yaqshid district north of capital Mogadishu July 27, 2013. Local media reported one person dead and five people wounded from the blast, however the target of the attack could not be established immediately. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
Double Olympic gold medallist supports campaigners who say the withdrawal could have catastrophic repercussions globally Hugh Muir Double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah tonight threw his fame and weight behind a campaign to stop Barclays Bank withdrawing from Britain’s £2 bn remittance market, a decision campaigners say will have catastrophic repercussions for some of the...
Kenya’s High Court on July 26, 2013, quashed a government plan to move 55,000 mostly Somali refugees from the capital, Nairobi, and other cities to camps, Human Rights Watch said. The court said the relocation would violate refugees’ dignity and free movement rights, and would risk indirectly forcing them back to Somalia. It also said the...