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...
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...
Prof Said Sh. Samatar SOMALI CLANISM is a force in the land to be reckoned with. Don’t snicker! By the end of this animated screed, you will be thoroughly persuaded. Somali clanism is at once earth-shattering and globe-trotting, coming along as a happy camper wherever Somalis set foot, from Siberia to Senegal and from the...
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...
Abwaan Haybe Axmed Yuusuf 1: Saadaasha gabay maalintaan, saxa u luuqeeyo 2: Ee aan salaamada ubaxo, samay laroorkeeda 3: Masakalo,e waa inan sugaa, sadaradeediiye 4: Salka aan udhigo oo murtida, siinka ka higaadsho 5:Seben hore wixii soo jiriyo, saaka waxa jooga 6: Soomaalinimadaan rabaa, inan sifeeyaaye 7:Sabciin sano horteed iyo wixii, saxafi ii sheegay 8:...
Press Release The government of Jubbaland is aware an alleged confidential report by U.N. Monitors Group accusing Kenya Soldiers assigned to AMISOM and the Jubbaland administration of colluding to facilitate the illegal export of charcoal from Kismayo port. The government of Jubbaland will not respond in particular to a report that has not been released...
OFFICE OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY ATTORNEY MICHAEL O. FREEMAN COUNTY ATTORNEY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ___________ Ali charges in death of bicyclist explained Abdirahman Abdi Ali of Minneapolis was charged on July 9 with two counts of criminal vehicular homicide, including leaving the scene of an accident, after striking and killing a young woman riding her...