Government forces are fighting against insurgents on this day in September in a bloody battle that leaves 30 dead. Dozens of wounded Somalis are taken out of the danger zone, some of them in the back of insurgents’ pick-up trucks.
One of the trucks races through the streets, zig-zagging to the echoing booms of the ongoing [...]
SOMALIA TODAY-TOMORROW – The Future of Somalia depends on its people, particularly its Diaspora. This one day conference focused on the major obstacles facing Somalia and what can be done to break the cycle of violence, civil wars, under development and other problems. The conference examined the trends; Short and long term perspectives as well [...]
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Drought for a fifth year running is driving more than 23 million east Africans in seven countries towards severe hunger and destitution, international aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday.
Launching a $9.5 million (6 million pounds) appeal, it said the situation was being worsened by high food prices and conflict. The most badly [...]
New documents obtained by TWI related to the case of Mohammed Jawad, an adolescent tortured by Afghan police and then abused again by U.S. interrogators, suggest that not only certain CIA interrogations, but interrogations by the Department of Defense demand a broader investigation as well.
Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he would investigate [...]
Statement summary
Full text: Arabic (Check against delivery)
Video: Arabic / English [RealPlayer, 21 min] (As delivered)
SHEIKH SHARIF SHEIKH AHMED, President of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, thanked all those who had promoted peace and stability in his country, as well as those that had delivered aid to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. He expressed [...]
Somali President H.E Sharif Sheik Ahmed arrived in NY city 10 am NY time Thursday Sept 24 2009.
Following are edited excerpts from a transcript of Jeffrey Gettleman’s recent interview with Somalia’s president, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, at Villa Somalia, the presidential palace, in Mogadishu, the nation’s capital. The answers were translated from the Somali by a Somali interpreter:
Q. Let’s start with your enemy. You know these guys. You used to work with [...]
by Ahmed Raghe
Thursday, September 17, 2009
According to eyewitnesses, two white Toyota landcruisers driven by Somali militants posed as United Nations aid workers, approached the Halane UN headquarters adjacent to Mogadishu Airport on Thursday, 17 September. Calmly they explained to the AMISOM Officers manning the entry-gate that they were to attend the security briefing between AMISOM [...]
By AbdiQudus Nur Salah (Donyale)
Saturday, September 19, 2009
After a long cherished hunt of ordered society, stability and a common defense pact, Puntland sub-state was formed. It all began in a familiar setting (Garoowe) when Harti elders and leadership alongside local Darod clans had pledged allegiance to a new regional alliance. On January, 1994, former members [...]
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