By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS (AP) –
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The newly elected president of Somalia plans a tour of U.S. communities with large Somali populations this fall in hopes of spreading the word about his country’s problems and getting advice for solving some of them.
Elmi Duale, Somalia’s United Nations ambassador and permanent representative, told The Associated Press [...]
MOGADISHU – Pirate-plagued Somalia took a step toward policing its own shores with the graduation of its first 500 naval recruits.
Officials hope the men will form the backbone of the country’s first naval force for nearly two decades, but said they need international funding to make it a viable force.
Somalia relies on international warships to [...]
Somalia’s president is in neighboring Djibouti to appeal for the deployment of Djiboutian troops to his war-torn nation as part of the UN-backed peacekeeping mission.
President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed met his Djiboutian counterpart Ismail Omar Guelleh on Wednesday to discuss the troops’ deployment, a Press TV correspondent quoted a spokesman for the presidential office as [...]
Hargaisa — High delegation led by the United Nations especial representative for Somalia Ahmed Ould Abdallah has Thursday reached in Hargeisa town, the capital of the breakaway republic of Somaliland.
Reports from Hargaise town say that the UN special representative of Somalia Ahmed Ould Abdallah is supposed to meet with the authorities of Somaliland and parties [...]
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) – The UN Secretary-General’s special representative to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah has not answered reporters’ questions concerning his involvement in the crafting of a 15-page “Memorandum of Understanding” that would give Kenya rights to drill for oil off the Somali continental shelf, extending for 200 miles.
Some analysts claim that Nairobi applied to the [...]
By Peter Clottey
Monday, September 07, 2009
Somalia’s government has expressed satisfaction about ongoing talks with hard line Islamic insurgents who have vowed to overthrow the administration.
The government says it will continue to negotiate with the insurgents until a solution is found to end the country’s instability.
The insurgents including al-Shabab have refused to recognize President Sheikh Sharif [...]
The leader of a Somali Islamist militant group told VOA Somali Service in an exclusive interview Saturday that his militants will keep fighting, even though the conflict has recently led to about 2,000 civilian deaths, and turned half-a-million Somalis into refugees in their own country.
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, the leader of the militant group Hizbul [...]
MOGADISHU – Somalia’s government is negotiating with Islamist insurgents and has persuaded some of them to join its administration, the foreign minister said on Saturday.
Somalia’s U.N.-backed administration is facing a stubborn insurgency by Islamist rebels, including foreign militants who Western security agencies say use the Horn of Africa nation as a safe haven to plot [...]
The victims were members of the same family, including children. They had gathered for their meal at the end of the day’s Ramadan fast.
The attack began shortly after Ali Ahmed Jama, Somalia’s foreign minister, said the transitional government was negotiating with rebel fighters.
Mr Jama said he had persuaded some insurgents to join the administration.
According to [...]
Washington, Sep. 5 — The man who grew up in Daphne, Alabama, as Omar Hammami, but is now reported to be a member of al Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab under the name Abu Mansour al-Amriki, told a school newspaper after 9/11 attacks that it was “difficult to believe a [...]
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Let the women lead Somalia (Nuradin Farah – Interview JEUNE AFRIQUE)
U.S. Links Suspects to Somalia
Mudane Axmed M. Maxamuud oo Loo Doortay Madaxweynaha Somaliland
