MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali Islamist insurgents clashed with government forces and African Union peacekeepers, killing fighters on both sides and ten civilians, an army spokesman and witnesses said Thursday. An Islamist offensive sparked by the return of an exiled insurgent leader in April has killed hundreds of Somalis. The fragile U.N.-backed government holds only a [...]
UNITED NATIONS, July 23 (Xinhua) — Repeated attempts to overthrow Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) are a source of deep concern, UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said in anew report released on Thursday, calling on the international community to continue its support for the struggling Horn of Africa nation. The spike in attacks by insurgents comes [...]
Piracy has been drawing huge attention to Somalia’s shores in the past few years, but this is just one part of the country’s complex profile. Somalia has been without an effective government since the collapse of its socialist system in 1991. Since then, the country has been embroiled in conflict as disparate groups vie for [...]
The first undersea cable to bring high-speed internet access to East Africa has gone live. The fibre-optic cable, operated by African-owned firm Seacom, connects South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique to Europe and Asia. The firm says the cable will help to boost the prospects of the region’s industry and commerce. The cable – [...]
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 lifting the aspirations of its students. The school’s plucky motto is “Nowhere but here.” For a group of students who [...]
The fragmented country of Somalia is no stranger to conflict and the last two years of fighting has increasingly taken a toll on the lives of everyone in the country, especially the children. Somalia is quite literally a raging battle ground, as fighting in the country continues, as insurgents exchange fire with the Somali government, [...]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Over the long months that federal investigators delved into the baffling recruitment of young men who left Minneapolis to fight with Islamic militants in Somalia, the city’s Somali community grappled with the fear they would all be branded terrorists. But this week as the FBI netted its first grand jury indictments in [...]
By William Maclean, Security Correspondent LONDON, July 14 (Reuters) – An al Shabaab victory over Somali government troops in Mogadishu would lift the morale of Islamist militants everywhere and underline al Qaeda’s ambition to create a regional safe haven in the Horn of Africa nation. But the repercussions on the ground might not be uniformly [...]
Monday, July 06, 2009 The Juba River region, in Somalia, is hard country. Women are regularly eaten by crocodiles while fetching dirty water. The sandy farmland is either in drought or flooded. And the militants known as the Shabab, who rule the area, exact brutal justice. An Economist correspondent had to turn back from the [...]
MOGADISHU, July 6 (Xinhua) — The leader of the Islamist Al-Shabaab movement in Somalia, whose forces have been fighting Somali government troops for the past weeks, has overnight given Somali government forces and officials an ultimatum of five days to surrender or face Islamic prosecutions. The Somali government dismissed the group’s statement as meaningless and [...]