Nairobi, September 21, 2012-Unidentified gunmen killed veteran Somali journalist Hassan Yusuf Absuge in Mogadishu this morning, just hours after he had reported on an explosion that killed 14 people including three of his colleagues.
The assailants shotHassan three times in...
Nairobi, September 20, 2012-Three Somali journalists were killed and at least four were injured in a suicide bomb attack in a Mogadishu café today, according to news reports and local journalists. The attack took place across the street from...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist rebels fell back on their last bastion on Wednesday, pouring hundreds of fighters into the port city of Kismayu and raising fears of a bloody showdown with advancing African Union soldiers, residents...
Mary Harper will begin her book tour in the USA on Tuesday, September 25th at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Boston, MA. Mary will be speaking about Getting Somalia Wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State at the following venues. Please...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Hawa Aden Mohamed won the United Nations refugee agency's Nansen Refugee Award on Tuesday for her work in helping thousands of Somali women and girls, many of them rape victims, start new lives in their battered...
Mogadishu, Jul 14 2009 -- Gun battles in Somalia are continuing as government forces and opposition fighters vow to press their fight for control of the country.
The exact details of who is holding the upper hand in battle is...
Hargeisa, 14 July 2009 – Federal officials unsealed an indictment in Minneapolis on Monday charging two young Somali-Americans with providing material support for terrorism.
The disclosure of the indictment, which was handed up by a grand jury in February, is...
Hargeisa, 14 July 2009 - Eyewitnesses say two French journalists have been kidnapped from a hotel in the Somali capital.
Abdi Mohamed Ahmed, who owns a teashop in front of the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu, said about 10 gunmen disarmed...
Hargeisa, 12 July 2009- MINNEAPOLIS — The Carlson School of Management rises from the asphalt like a monument to capitalist ambition. Stock prices race across an electronic ticker near a sleek entrance and the atrium soars skyward, as if...
Addis Ababa, Jul 8, 2009 --- Somalia's prime minister signaled his regime is expanding the 4, 300 strong African Union troops by several thousand as more are expected to arrive in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
Abdirashid Ali did not say where...