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 [...]
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 [...]
The radical Islamist al-Shabab are accused of links to al-Qaeda Hardline Islamist militiamen in Somalia have stoned to death a man accused of raping and murdering a woman. The execution took place in front of a large crowd in the town of Wanlaweyn, about 90km (55 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu. The man was [...]
By Andrew Cawthorne Monday, June 29, 2009 NAIROBI (Reuters) – Security forces tortured scores of men and raped a dozen women in a sweep against the mainly ethnic Somali population of remote northeast Kenya intended to disarm militias, a rights group said on Monday. The accusation by U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) of brutalities in [...]
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somalia’s hardline Islamist group Shebab on Monday raided Mogadishu’s main market to hunt for traders stocking expired food, warning that offenders would face trial for “un-Islamic behavior”. Dozens of fighters from the armed group — which controls much of the capital as part of a deadly insurgency against the government — swept [...]
Somalia — At least 6 people have been injured after heavy shelling started in parts of Hodan district in the Somali capital Mogadishu, residents said on Sunday. Residents said that about 25 mortar shells landed in parts of Hadan district as KPP and Sigale neighborhoods in Mogadishu where a base for armed Islamist forces against [...]
BRUSSELS — Somali pirates have released the entire crew of a Belgian ship seized 10 weeks ago after a ransom was paid, the Belgian government said Sunday. The 10-member crew of the Pompei dredger was in good health and sailing the ship to an unidentified harbor where it will arrive in a few days, the [...]
ADDIS ABABA – Eritrea Saturday accused the United States to “aggravate and prolong the crisis” in Somalia and be a factor of instability, after confirmation of shipment of U.S. arms to the Somali government. “The unfortunate intervention of the United States and the supply of arms have failed to promote stability in Somalia in recent [...]
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 [...]