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 […]
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 […]
Explosions take place in Afgoye, operations conducted 19 Sept – Source: Radio Mustaqbal – 107 words Reports from Afgoye district of Lower Shabelle region in the South of Somalia claim grenade explosions took place on Wednesday night inside of the district. The blasts happened in Bar Isma’il and Hawo Tako villages in Afgoye and were […]
Somali journalist killed in Mogadishu 17 Sept – Source: Shabelle – 89 words Assailants in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu gunned down a young freelance journalist on Sunday evening, the ninth media worker to be killed in Somalia since January this year. Zakariye Mohamed Mohamud Moallim, a young cameraman working as freelance journalist was shot dead in Nasib […]
Key towns fall in march to Kismayu 16 Sept – Source: Daily Nation – 546 words African Union troops have surrounded Kismayu ahead of a major offensive to liberate the last remaining al Shabaab stronghold in southern Somalia. The forces have recently captured a number of key towns around the port city from the Al-Qaeda-linked […]
2 blasts hit army convoy in Afgoye, outside Mogadishu 14 Sept- Source: Radio Shabelle/RBC/Radio Mustaqbal- 147 words Two remote-controlled land-mine blasts hit on Thursday a convoy carrying Somali government troops in Afgoye town, 30 north-west Mogadishu, witnesses and security officials said.Witnesses said the blasts took place at Afgoye bridge around 3:00 p.m. local time on […]
UN officials condemn attack on hotel during new president’s press conference 13 Sept – Source: UN News – 244 words United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his envoy to Somalia strongly condemned today’s attack on a hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, where the country’s new President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, was giving a press conference […]
Blast rocks new leader’s meeting in Somalia 12 Sept – Source: Radio Shabelle/Reuters/Aljazeera – 50 words Two explosions rocked the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday outside a hotel; the explosion has occurred outside the Mogadishu hotel where the newly elected Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was meeting with Kenya’s foreign minister, witnesses said. There was […]
Somali MPs elects a new president 11 Sept – Source: Shabelle – 154 words Somalia’s parliamentarians elected yesterday Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, a university lecturer as new president for the Horn of Africa country, the first vote of its kind in more than two decades. Mr. Mohamud’s election was held in a highly fortified police academy in […]
Somalia lawmakers to vote for new president 10 Sept – Source: Daily Nation – 215 words Somalia’s parliament votes Monday for a new president in what the UN has described as a historic election for the war-torn nation, which has lacked an effective central government for decades. The election is the final stage of a […]