Africa

Garowe, 5 July 2009 - The Somali regional state of Puntland has expelled two journalists yesterday after they accused them of entering the region illegally. The French national journalists have been detained and taken into a police station in...

Hargeisa, 3 July 2009 - Somali pirates have claimed a new victim by disrupting the laying of an undersea fibre optic cable that has promised to end east Africa’s isolation as the last region of the world not connected...

Hargeisa, 3 July 2009  - Egyptian police shot dead two Somali migrants on Thursday who tried to slip across the Sinai desert border into Israel, security sources said, as violence against migrants picked up at the sensitive frontier. The killings...

Mogadishu, Jul 3, 2009  - Sudanese president Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, acknowledged Sudan's support to the government of Somalia in its pursuit to realize stability, security and reconciliation in Somalia. Al-Bashir delivered these remarks after met the President of Somalia Sheikh Sharif...

Mogadishu,Jun 30 2009  -- Somalia's transitional leader, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed led a delegation of Ministers and Parliamentarians to the Libyan city of Sirte on Monday for the summit of the New Economic Partnership of Africa's Development. The African Union...

Somali's Ambassador to Kenya Muhamad Ali Nur has said the situation in his country is "very severe" and has consequently appealed for help from the international community. Speaking during an interview with Kenya's privately-owned KTN TV at the Somali embassy...

Hargeisa, 27 June 2009 (Somalilandcurrent) - As Somalia's transitional government fights for its existence and the region's governments debate how to respond, guest columnist Daniela Kroslak argues strongly against another foreign military incursion. Instead what is needed, she writes,...

Hargeisa, 25 June 2009  - About 5,000 new automatic weather stations are set to be deployed across Africa, under a climate change initiative announced today by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Global Humanitarian Forum, the Earth...

Hargeisa, 25 June 2009  - The African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM) will launch a radio station aimed at promoting peace in the conflict-torn Horn of Africa nation, a spokesman told AFP Wednesday. "The planning for this project began...

Hargeisa, 24 June 2009  - A court under the control of a Somali Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab has ordered four young men suspected of stealing guns and mobile phones to have a hand and a leg amputated, but the...