By HENRY OWOUR (Daily Nation Kenya) — Attempts to end the conflict in Somalia is gaining international support with the recent pledge of $213.3 million (Sh16.8 billion) at a conference in Brussels. The latest move came after the new Somalia President, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, received a very warm welcome at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa. Days before his...Continue reading »
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By Howard Lesser Washington, DC (VOA) — One week after international donors pledged more than $200 million, primarily toward security needs of a new government in Somalia, UN officials are expected to address the humanitarian response to Somalia’s refugee crisis. In London Friday, they will discuss what is needed inside the country and in surrounding areas...Continue reading »
By Ben Gelinas, The Edmonton Journal — One of two men who were kidnapped and robbed on the weekend watched as his friend was shot in the stomach with a shotgun in Hermitage Park, police say.Mustafa Warsame dove into a nearby pond to escape his captors, according to a search warrant in the case, obtained by The Journal. Police searched an apartment suite on 118th...Continue reading »
The UN’s refugee agency says it is holding talks with the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab to resume operations in areas under its control. The UNHCR representative for Somalia, Guillermo Bettochi, said al-Shabab had recognised the dire humanitarian situation facing people in the region. He said he hopes to be able to reopen an office in the town of Baidoa...Continue reading »
Xasan Dahir May 1 (Reuters) – Somalia’s hardline opposition leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys has an important role to play in restoring security to the country after 18 years of ruinous civil war, a government minister said. [ID:nLU142426] Aweys returned to Somalia last week in his first known trip home in more than two years. Here are key facts about Aweys: *...Continue reading »
By VOA News  — Unidentified gunmen killed a Somali member of parliament Wednesday in a drive-by shooting in Somalia’s capital. Officials say Abdulahi Isse Abtidon was standing in a street in northern Mogadishu when he was gunned down. He is the third lawmaker to have been attacked in the city since the new parliament relocated to Mogadishu last month. Another...Continue reading »
NAIROBI, 15 April 2009 (IRIN) – Rufai Mohamed Salad risks life and limb to provide daily ambulance services in war-torn Mogadishu, a city where even the largest hospital does not have an ambulance. Salad and a friend, Mahamud Abdirahman Ali, came up with the idea of providing an ambulance service when they realised that many wounded people often died before they...Continue reading »
Daily Nation – MOGADISHU, Thursday A Somali legislator who hails from Lower Shabelle region has denied that Al-Shabaab, the Islamist movement opposing the Government of National Unity, has recently beheaded a man from Jamama district, 460 km south of Mogadishu. In an statement to the media, Abdullahi Ebyan, a member of Somalia’s 550 member legislative house,...Continue reading »
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton By STEVEN R. HURST WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton said there would be days — and nights — like this. For the second time in four days and with less than three months in office, President Barack Obama has received the “3 a.m. phone call” that Clinton warned about. In their bitter presidential...Continue reading »
The Somali pirates are, at last report, in a lifeboat, holding a hostage, the captain of the Maersk Alabama. Here’s what they may not know: No American vessel has been attacked by pirates since 1804. In that time, the United States has developed into a somewhat more powerful nation. Today, the U.S. Navy has more than 280 ships, including 11 aircraft carriers and...Continue reading »
By Dr. Mohamed Osman Nur-Shacabi The present political climate in Riyales’ Government, in which opposition parties are not able to operate freely and safely, is in no way conducive to the holding of free, fair, and credible Presidential elections scheduled first on March 2009 or the new date of the Somaliland Commission has declared to be on May 31, 2009. The primary...Continue reading »
HARGEISA, 31 March 2009 (PlusNews) – Hodan* spends most of her afternoons sitting outside her tiny house in Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared republic of Somaliland, blowing fruity smoke from a hookah pipe, her face covered in a green paste to help her skin look its best. She does not trawl the streets looking for customers; most of her clients make appointments...Continue reading »
Caitlin O’Neil – The Lantern (OSU) A young Somali man was shot twice by officials when he tried to flee the country years ago, and is now paralyzed. He never had an X-ray and although today he remains in constant pain, the only medicine he recieves is a few aspirin every day. A photograph of this man was one of many shown by photographer Abdi Roble and...Continue reading »
