Somalia’s New PM: Women will be part of cabinet 12 Oct – Source: Radio Mustaqbal /VOA Somali Service – 223 words The newly appointed Somalia’s Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon said that he is holding consultations to form his cabinet, promising Women presence. The Prime Minister said Women will be part of the cabinet since […]
New Somali PM pledges competent, trustworthy government 11 Oct – Source: VOA News – 83 words Somalia’s new Prime Minister has pledged to form a competent, trustworthy government ready to work toward developing the country, as it emerges from a U.N.-backed transition plan. Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdoon Saaid told VOA in his first interview […]
Kenyan army recovers bodies of soldiers killed by Somali militants 11 Oct – Source: Standard – 171 words Kenyan troops in Kismayu, Somalia have recovered bodies of two of their colleagues who were killed and later dragged in the town by the al Shabaab militants. Department of Defence spokesman Maj Emanuel Chirchir said the bodies of […]
Somalia: 60,000 flood and conflict victims in Beletweyn receive aid 10 Oct- Source: ICRC- 318 words Around 60,000 people affected by conflict and flooding in Beletweyn-Hiiraan, central Somalia, are receiving emergency food rations. They include 39,000 to whom the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Somali Red Crescent distributed essential shelter and […]
Allied forces capture Jameeca, near Bur-hakaba 10 Oct – Source: Bar-kulan – 129 words Somali and African Union forces on Tuesday said they have taken control of Jameeca area, some 12 kilometres east of the rebel held Bur-Hakaba town, Bay region. Gen. Adan Yabarow of the Somali National Army told Bar-kulan they are now advancing […]
Roadside bomb kills 2, injures 5 in Somalia’s port city of Kismayo 09 Oct – Source: Shabelle – 111 words At least two people were killed and five others injured in a huge roadside bomb explosion inn Somalia’s southern port city of Kismayo, the latest in series of attacks against Somali and Kenyan forces, reports […]
Eritrea calls for lifting of sanctions, rejects UN accusations 09 Oct – Source: Reuters – 153 words Eritrea has asked the U.N. Security Council to lift sanctions against it after a recent U.N. experts’ report showed that the tiny east African state had cut its support for the al Qaeda-allied al Shabaab militant group in […]
Somalia facing aid shortfall after al Shabaab bans Islamic Relief 08 Oct- Source: Guardian- 783 words Just over a week after its fighters abandoned their last major stronghold in southern Somalia, al-Shabaab have banned Muslim aid group Islamic Relief from the territory it controls, threatening programmes for more than a million people in an area […]
Somali rebels ban aid group Islamic Relief 08 Oct – Source: Capital News/AFP – 289 words Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents on Monday banned the aid agency Islamic Relief, one of the very few groups who were able to work in the war-ravaged region controlled by the al Qaeda linked fighters. Al Shabaab said it “has […]
Somali president names political newcomer as PM, urges unity 07 Oct – Source: Reuters – 752 words Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Saturday named political newcomer Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid as the country’s new prime minister, a man diplomats say is untainted by the clan rivalry and feuding that has plagued Somalia for decades. “I […]