Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Somali pirates have hijacked a Saudi-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden with 14 crew members on board, a regional maritime official confirmed on Wednesday. Andrew Mwangura, East Africa Coordinator of Seafarers’ Assistance Programme said the MT Al Nisr Al Saudi vessel which was seized on Monday was now in the Somali coast. “The ship was hijacked...Continue reading »
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Bartamaha (Mogadishu):- Somali government forces attacked insurgent-controlled areas in the capital, setting off a gunbattle and mortar fire that killed at least 10 civilians and four militants, witnesses said Wednesday. Almost 40 people were wounded. The fighting started late Tuesday when government forces moved into an insurgent-held neighborhood of Mogadishu and killed...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Washington):- The U.S. Supreme Court hears a case Wednesday involving a former Somali defense minister accused of torture. The case will present the court with a test of U.S. laws on both immunity and torture. Andrea Parsow, a senior counsel on counter-terrorism for U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, detailed some of the particulars of the case, dating back to...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Last year Somalia’s Radio Warsan was a pro-government station that vilified al-Qaida-linked insurgents. Today it is in the hands of the rebels as they battle the U.N.-backed government on the ground with guns and on the nation’s airwaves with pro-jihad messages. As the propaganda war intensifies in the battered Horn of Africa nation,...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Barlamaanka Somaaliland ayaa maanta waxa uu wax laga xumaado ku tilmaamay dacwad Wasiirka arimaha dibada ee dalkaKenya uu u soo jeediyay gudoomiye ku xigeenka Baarlamaanka Kenya oo dhawaan booqday Magaalooyin waaweyn oo katirsan Maamulka Somaliland. Gudoomiyaha Baarlamaanka Somaliland Mudane C/raxmaan Maxamed C/laahi C/raxmaan Ciro ayaa si kulul...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- National Assembly Deputy Speaker Farah Maalim has told off Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetang’ula for calling on a parliamentary committee to investigate his activities while on official duty abroad. The Deputy Speaker said he led a delegation of parliamentary committee that visited Somaliland in December and would this week present a report...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Wasiirka Arrimaha Dibedda Kenya Moses Wetang’ula ayaa ku baaqay in baadhitaan lagu sameeyo safarkii Faarax Macalin uu dhawaan ku tagay Somaliland. Wasiirka Arimaha dibadda Kenya Moses Watengu’la ayaa gudiga difaaca iyo xiriirka dibadda ee Baarlamaanka u gudbiyey Qoraal uu ku dalbanayo in Baarlamaanku dib u eegis ku sameeyo Khudbadihii...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The United Nation Monday called on foreign governments to stop meddling with Somali affairs, as the country celebrated the first anniversary of the government led by Prime Minister Omar Abidirashid Ali Sharmarke. The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Mr Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah said external interference is to blame for many of the woes facing...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates have told of the ‘torture’ they feel at being forbidden from seeing each other. Paul and Rachel Chandler have spent five weeks apart, speaking to each other only sporadically. In a phone call their captors allowed them with a Somali TV channel, both spoke of the toll being apart is taking...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) – Booming Asian demand for South African coal will put more ships at risk from Somali pirates operating in the Indian Ocean and raise insurance and freight costs already hiked due to seaborne attacks. Emboldened by rising ransom payments, Somali pirates have stepped up attacks in recent months, making tens of millions...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The British government said Monday it is banning Somali terrorist organization al-Shabab, an al-Qaida-linked Islamist group fighting the anarchic country’s transitional government. British Home Secretary Alan Johnson said he had issued an order banning al-Shabaab. The order must be approved by Parliament before it goes into force, but that...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- On Wednesday 24 February, ministers of the defence of the European Union agreed that from the end of March they will expand the objectives of Operations Atalanta to include control of Somali ports where pirates are based, as well as ‘neutralising’ mother ships that allow the pirates to operate over 1,000km from the coast. This expansion...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) vows to continue delivering food aid to Somalia despite an Islamist insurgent group having ordered them to cease all operations. Al-Shabaab, which controls much of south and central Somalia and is battling to oust the weak Western-backed government, accuses the WFP of delivering out-of-date grain and secretly...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):-Xafladan oo aad loo soo agaasimay ayaa ka dhacday Hotel Andalus ee magaaladda Nairobi iyadoo ay xafladda ka soo qeyb galeen Mas’uulin iyo qeebaha kala duwan ee bulshada. Wariye C/rahmaan British oo ahaa xariiriyaha xafladda ayaa Ugu horeentiina waxaa Meekarafoonka ku soo dhaweeyay xildhibaan Nadiif oo ka mid ah Xildhibaada Dowladda KMG ee Somaaliya...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Somali pirates have freed a Greek-owned cargo ship and its crew of 19 after a ransom was paid, officials say. The Navios Apollon was seized north of the Seychelles on 28 December as it headed from the US to India with a cargo of fertiliser. The Greek captain and 18 Filipino crewmen were all safe and the vessel was heading to Oman and then India. The...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- The Somali-born rapper K’naan on politics and pirates – and why Coca-Cola chose his song to be the official anthem for this summer’s football World Cup in South Africa, writes Caspar Llewellyn Smith he Somali-born rapper K’naan arrives at the K West, the west London hotel much loved by today’s rock stars looking half...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Islamist militants in Somalia are stopping convoys of food reaching more than 360,000 displaced people, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says. The agency says trucks travelling from the capital Mogadishu to camps in Afgoye have been stopped by armed men. Insurgent group al-Shabaab says the WFP is ruining local farming by forcing Somalis...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A British man kidnapped with his wife by Somali pirates is suffering from a severe eye infection that could leave him blind. Paul Chandler is understood to have contracted the infectious disease trachoma, which is prevalent in East African countries such as Somalia. The condition could lead to him becoming blind within weeks. It is feared that he...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A ransom has been paid to Somali pirates in a bid to secure the release of a Greek-owned freighter and its crew of 19 being held off the Seychelles. According to the Navfor, the EU’s naval mission, on Saturday, “a ransom drop was successfully made for the release of the Greek owned Panama-flagged bulk carrier, Navios Apollon”. It...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A Kenyan police officer has been killed by members of an Ethiopian tribal militia after a clash along the two countries’ common border, Kenyan media said on Saturday. The private Kenya Television Network said the officer from the paramilitary General Service Unit was killed late on Friday after 500 militiamen, believed to be from the Merille...Continue reading »
