THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Fighting in the Somali capital has killed 25 people over two days, leaving corpses in the streets of a city where a bloody insurgency is intensifying, doctors and witnesses said Thursday. The fighting in Mogadishu started late Wednesday and continued into Thursday in residential areas. On Wednesday, at least [...]
By Mark Doyle BBC World Affairs correspondent An African Union summit has opened in Libya amid calls for more African troops to be sent to deal with the crisis in Somalia. But given the limited mandate of the African Union (AU) force currently in Somalia, and its very limited resources, critics say it is not [...]
By Abdi Guled MOGADISHU, July 2 (Reuters) – Heavy fighting in the Somali capital killed at least 20 people on Thursday, the second day of fierce clashes as government forces tried to drive hardline Islamists out of their Mogadishu bases. Al Qaeda-linked fighters in Somalia’s al Shabaab rebel group are battling to oust President Sheikh [...]
by Elizabeth Baier, Minnesota Public Radio, Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio June 30, 2009 St. Paul, Minn. — The top official from one of the relatively peaceful regions in wartorn Somalia gave the keynote address at an event Tuesday in Minneapolis celebrating Somali Independence Day. Abdirahman Farole, the president of Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of [...]
The 14-year-old plane crash survivor recovers in hospital A French government minister has reversed earlier claims that a “black box” recorder from a plane that crashed in the Indian Ocean has been found. French Minister for Co-operation Alain Joyandet said signals picked up by rescuers came from a distress beacon. Earlier, an official said efforts [...]
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia on Wednesday said it will not send troops to Somalia, though a hardline Islamist militia fighting to topple the Somali government recently threatened to invade the neighbouring country. “No matter what has been said, our position is that we are not entering Somalia at this point,” government spokesman Bereket Simon [...]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A radical Islamic group in Somalia has threatened to seize weapons and ammunition the U.S. has supplied to the nation’s embattled government. But Uganda, a key U.S. ally in the region, praised the arms shipment. Both were responding to an announcement by U.S. officials last week that the Obama administration had [...]