Kibaki seeks world support for Somalia 26 Sept – Source: Standard Media Digital – 175 words President Kibaki has called on United Nations agencies and international organisations working in Somalia to relocate to the liberated areas and provide humanitarian assistance to Somalis living there. The President also appealed to UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon to mobilize […]
AMISOM to take over parts of Beledweyne’s security 25 Sept – Source: Bar-kulan – 91 words AMISOM’s Djiboutian contingent yesterday took over the security of Beledweyne’s Howlwadag neighbourhood from Ethiopian troops manning the city, officials say.Col. Osman Dibdad Hil, commander of Djiboutian troops confirmed to Bar-kulan that his forces will officially take the security task […]
Kibaki urges agencies to move to liberated parts of Somalia 25 Sept – Source: Daily Nation/Capital FM – 271 words Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has called on United Nations agencies and international organisations working in Somalia to relocate to the liberated areas and provide humanitarian assistance. He also appealed to the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon […]
Parliament meets for the first time since election of new president 24 Sept – Source: Bar-kulan – 110 words Somalia’s parliament yesterday met in Mogadishu, the first time since the recent historic presidential election where members elected a new president in 42 years. In a session attended by 200 MPs, the parliament discussed a range […]
Al Shabaab threaten to kill Somali lawmakers 24 Sept – Source: AFP – 170 words Somalia’s al Qaeda linked al Shabaab threatened Monday to kill all the country’s new lawmakers, saying that an MP killed at the weekend in Mogadishu was just the first to be targeted. “The successful elimination of Mustafa Haji Mohamed was the […]
Somali MP shot dead in Mogadishu 22 Sept – Source: BBC/Al Jazeera/ CNN – 116 words Gunmen have shot dead a member of Somalia’s new parliament in an attack in the capital Mogadishu. Mustafa Haji Maalim was gunned down after leaving a mosque in the southern Waberi district following evening prayers, witnesses said. The speaker […]
Somali journalist shot dead in Mogadishu 21 Sept – Source: Radio Shabelle/Radio Kulmiye – 75 words Gunmen today killed a journalist, Hassan Yusuf Absugeh in Yaaqshid District in Mogadishu. Area residents told Shabelle the gunmen shoot the journalist as he was coming out of his house. The gunmen were armed with pistols and fled the scene […]
Suicide bombings kill 15 people in Somali capital-police 20 Sept- Source: Reuters- 74 words At least 15 people were killed when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a restaurant in the centre of the Somali capital on Thursday, a senior police official said. “So far we have confirmed 15 dead people including two local […]
AMISOM secures town 50 km from Kismayo 20 Sept – Source: AMISOM – 123 words Somali government forces supported by AU troops have captured Janaa Cabdalla town, a stronghold of the Al Qaeda-affiliated terror group, al Shabaab, following a three-day operation. Janaa Cabdalla is located 50 kilometres to the west of the port city of Kismayo […]
Civilians at risk in fight for Somali rebel city: UN, US 19 Sept- Source: AFP- 409 words The United Nations and United States warned Wednesday that civilians must be protected as forces battling Somalia’s Islamist fighters tightened the noose around the key insurgent bastion of Kismayo. More than 6,000 civilians have fled ahead of the […]