There has been an outpouring of grief around the world There was no sign of foul play in the death of Michael Jackson, coroners who completed a post-mortem on the singer’s body have said. But toxicology and other tests have been ordered, and the cause of the 50-year-old’s death could take several weeks to determine. [...]
Associated Press – June 27, 2009 9:14 AM ET MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis is celebrating Somali Independence Day. July 1 is the 49th anniversary of the day in 1960 when Somalia achieved independence from Italy. The Somali holiday will be marked Saturday at Midtown Global Market’s Safari Express restaurant, which [...]
* U.S. details amount, type of weapons given to Somalia * Arms provided after insurgents began offensive in May WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. government has provided about 40 tonnes of weapons and ammunition to Somalia’s embattled government in the past six weeks to help it fight Islamist insurgents, a senior U.S. official [...]
By ROBERT BURNS – 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) — A State Department official says the weaponry and military training that the United States has been supplying to the government of Somalia in recent weeks is valued at less than $10 million. And the official said it amounted to about 40 tons of armaments, provided [...]
By MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED The Associated Press Friday, June 26, 2009; 10:26 AM DADAAB, Kenya — The bloody conflict in Somalia has created the world’s largest refugee camp, with 500 hungry and exhausted refugees pouring into this wind-swept camp in neighboring Kenya every day, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday. Dadaab, just 50 miles (80 [...]
LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the “King of Pop” and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday. He was 50. Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Ed Winter, the assistant [...]
By Consesa John Thursday, June 25, 2009 Tanzania and Kenya have agreed to narrow the gap between their boundaries in the Indian Ocean to curb criminal activities taking place in the area. wg-tanzania-3364-400×300 This comes only days after it was proposed that the two countries mount joint naval operations to deter Somali pirates in the [...]
Somalia — Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen court has Thursday carried out double amputations on four men for stealing phones and guns in the Somali capital Mogadishu. They have each had a hand and foot cut off after being convicted by a Sharia court in the capital earlier this week. Hundreds of people, mainly women and children, [...]
WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) – The United States has sent weapons to the government of Somalia to thwart a takeover of the Horn of Africa nation by Islamist rebels with suspected ties to al Qaeda, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. “A decision was made at the highest level to ensure the government does not [...]
Difficult as it may be to conceive, the already-bad security situation in Somalia deteriorated further over the weekend. Yet as Islamist militants brought their offensive to the edge of Mogadishu amid fierce fighting and the country’s nominal government reeled from the loss of several of its more effective members, an observer would be forgiven for [...]