MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali rebels have executed two men for adultery and murder, but the verdict prompted a battle between two insurgent factions that killed three of the gunmen, witnesses said on Monday.
It was the first time Hizbul Islam guerrillas had meted out the type of punishments that are usually associated with the more hardline [...]
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 [...]
September 5, 2009
Kenya will uphold the rights of jailed Somali pirates, in accordance with the local and international law, Vice-President [VP] Kalonzo Musyoka has said.
He said the piracy was a delicate matter and needed to be handled in accordance with local and international laws.
“Piracy is not only a Kenyan problem but an [...]
A fifth Somali man from Minneapolis apparently has been killed in his war-ravaged homeland, a relative said Friday.
Mohamoud Hassan, a 23-year-old former engineering student at the University of Minnesota, reportedly died in the past day or two.
“It’s real bad news,” Hassan’s uncle said Friday night. “But that is what happened.”
The uncle, who did not want [...]
Madaxweynaha Talyaaniga Giorgio Napolitano ayaa warqadaha aqoonsiga Danjirenimo ka guddoomay Danjire Nuur Xasan Xuseen (Nuur Cadde) oo ahaa Ra’iisal Wasaarihii hore ee Soomaaliya.
Haddaba Danjiraha oo aan la xiriirnay ayaa wuxuu nooga warramay qaabkii ay u dhacday xafladdii warqadaha aqoonsiga danjirenimo looga guddoomay, wuxuuna sheegay in ay Dowladda Talyaaniga maamuus aad u heer sareeya u sameysay, [...]
Portland police still haven’t released the name of the victim in Monday night’s shooting in the city’s Bayside neighborhood, but theSomali man shot in the back after leaving a mosque in Maine (VIDEO)y have revealed that he is of Somali descent and was shot in the back after leaving a mosque on Anderson Street.
The Council [...]
Mudane Axmed M. Maxamuud oo Loo Doortay Madaxweynaha Somaliland
Observers satisfied with Somaliland election
Somali charged over attack on Danish cartoonist (VIDEO)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met Minister of Foreign Affairs of TFG Somalia Ali Ahmed Jama Jangeli
