An Ethiopian military aircraft carrying ammunition crash-landed at Mogadishu’s international airport on Friday, bursting into flames and killing four of the six crew members. The Soviet-made Antonov 24 plane got into trouble in the air and then missed the runway, hurtling into the ground shortly after 0400 GMT and setting off the ammunition. Ethiopian troops...
Mohamed F Yabarag After nearly four decades, Professor Ahmed I Samatar, the former dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College in Minneapolis and former presidential hopeful in Somalia proper had finally decided to pay his long-awaited visit to his homeland at the connivance of the renegade secessionist enclave of “Somaliland”, who were...
MOGADISHU // Families of some of the more than 50 sailors and fishermen held hostage by Somali pirates begged for their release yesterday, with some imprisoned now for more than two years. “We are in desperate condition living with little hope to see our beloved soon,” said the message from families of the crew of...
A recent attack on the Turkish mission in Mogadishu has worried diplomats and foreign students Studying in Istanbul on a full government scholarship, Somali student Nur Hassan Bukhari is worried that attacks targeting Turkish interests could derail relations between the two countries. “It was brutal,” Bukhari told Al Jazeera of a bombing on the Turkish mission in...
By Shaun Waterman Al Qaeda’s branch in Somlia has had the greatest success of any of the terror network’s franchises in recruiting Americans, and a video it released Wednesday shows why. Though he was killed four years ago, Troy Kastigar of Minnesota remains an articulate recruiter for al-Shabab, al Qaeda’s franchise in Somalia that has been part of a long-running Islamic...
By ABDULLAHI DIRIYE While miraa (khat) plays a critical economic role for households and traders involved in its cultivation and sale, its production and final consumption has many negative effects that far outweigh any apparent gains. Yet even as Britain has seen the need to ban miraa, here in Kenya, there’s no serious discussion on the adverse...
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By REUBEN KYAMA and NICOLA CLARK NAIROBI, Kenya — The Kenyan authorities ordered the temporary closing on Wednesday of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport here in Nairobi after a huge fire broke out and raged for four hours, officials and witnesses said. The blaze spread to the international arrivals area, bringing East Africa’s busiest airport...
Former Tory leader signs deal for Soma Oil and Gas during his first visit to Mogadishu AMID a surge of interest in oil and gas exploration along the east African coast, former Conservative leader Michael Howard has brokered the first oil deal with the new government of Somalia, reports the Financial Times. Lord Howard, who joined...
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