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By Mohamed Sheikh Nor Somalia’s government appealed for international aid to help thousands of people affected by a tropical cyclone that killed at least 150 people in the semi-autonomous northeastern region of Puntland. The storm, known as 03A, made landfall over the weekend, resulting in heavy rains and flash floods that left many coastal and inland...

Intelligence experts say there has been two sightings of her in the lawless African country since the  Westgate mall massacre in Nairobi Fugitive terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite has been spotted ­travelling through Somalia, sparking fears she is plotting an attack with al-Shabaab fanatics. Intelligence experts claim there has been two sightings of the White Widow in the...

Victim of Alleged Attack by AU Soldiers and Witnesses Harassed Nairobi– Somali authorities should order a new, impartial, and transparent investigation into an alleged gang-rape by African Union (AU) soldiers. The case has been marred by mismanagement, opacity, and the harassment of the female rape survivor and support service providers. A Somali woman told local...

When music publicist Carl Delahunty started getting calls from Somalia and texts of congratulation on his new mobile phone, it took a while for the penny to drop by Michael Hann In Mo Farah’s autobiography there is a brief passage, around three-quarters of the way through the book, when he talks about changing his mobile phone. “Later,”...

Italian police have arrested a Somali man accused of raping and torturing asylum seekers fleeing Libya on a boat which sank off the island of Lampedusa last month killing more than 365 migrants. Mouhamud Elmi Muhidin, 34, faces charges of kidnapping, sexual assault, people trafficking and criminal association with the goal of aiding illegal immigration...

ROME // Italian police have arrested a 24-year-old Somali man accused of being a trafficker involved with the migrant boat that sank last month in a tragedy that claimed 366 lives, a spokeswoman said on Friday. The man was arrested on the island of Lampedusa where the shipwreck took place and “was one of the...

By: Leslie Shaffer Somali pirates have a problem Captain Hook never faced: how to invest millions worth of ransom payments. Like many a corporate raider, Somalia’s pirate financiers often look to create a vertically integrated, diversified business, according to the “Pirate Trails” study by the World Bank, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...

The ongoing battle with Somali pirates and their plundering peers off the Horn of Africa is costing the global economy $18 billion a year. A new World Bank and United Nations report entitled ‘Pirate Trails, the International Criminal Police Organisation’ reveals the war on piracy leaves the world with the whopping annual bill as navies...

Pirates off the coast of Somalia and the Horn of Africa have made between $339 million and $413 million in ransom profits, fuelling a wide range of criminal activities on a global scale, according to a United Nations-backed report released today. Pirate Trails, produced by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World...

Two Norwegian girls of Somali origin are believed to be held captive in Syria after travelling to the country to support rebels there, their father said in a report Thursday by Norway’s public broadcaster NRK. “They are held against their will,” the man, who was not identified by NRK, said in an interview recorded late Wednesday in...