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 [...]
Minneapolis — Even Somali-Americans hardened by the bloodshed of their homeland were sickened by the latest attack, a suicide bombing in Mogadishu on Dec. 3.
Many say the bombing was one of the saddest moments in recent Somali history. The bomber killed at least 22 people at a graduation ceremony for medical students. Some people have [...]
Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliya
Xafiiska Madaxweynaha
جـمـهـوريـة الصــومــال
مكتب الرئيس
Republic of Somalia
Office of the Pressident
Media Release
By Targeting Graduating Doctors, the Terrorists Passed a Red Line
“Innaa Lillaahi, Wa Innaa Ilayhi Raajicuun”
“To God We are From, and To Him We Shall Return”
(Villa Somalia, Mogadishu – Somalia; December [...]
MOGADISHU, Somalia — An explosion ripped through an upscale hotel in Somalia’s capital Thursday during a university graduation ceremony, killing nine people, including three Cabinet ministers and two journalists.
The blast raised new questions about the ability of Somalia’s weak government to control even the small area of the capital it holds. African troops protecting the [...]
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 [...]
Somali President H.E Sharif Sheik Ahmed arrived in NY city 10 am NY time Thursday Sept 24 2009.
NAIROBI, Kenya — An Islamic insurgent group that controls much of lawless Somalia has released a video showing its members vowing allegiance to Osama bin Laden, training in dusty camps and slamming Somalia’s U.S.- backed president as a traitor.
The tape was released late Sunday by al-Shabab, an insurgent group that last week hit the African [...]
Madaxweyne Sheik Sharif iyo wafdigii uu hoggaaminayay ayaa maanta barkhadii waxa uu ka soo dagay garoonka caalamiga ah Adan Adde.
Madaxweynaha oo aay wehliyaan xubno ka tirsan xukuumaddisa ayaa durabadiiba dib uga hawl galay.
Chaos in Somalia is spilling over its borders, fuelling a climate of suspicion in Kenya’s remote northeast where recruiters have been seeking new jihadists to send into battle.
Western security agencies say Somalia has become a haven for foreign jihadists and local Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda who are plotting attacks across the region and [...]
Ethiopian troops have seized control of a strategic town in Somalia, eyewitnesses say.
Belet Wayne is near the Ethiopian border and the Ethiopian troops are reported to have taken control of the town without a fight.
Ethiopian troops intervened in Somalia in 2006 and removed Islamists from power. They officially left Somalia in January as part of [...]
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
