MOGADISHU — Somali traders Wednesday evacuated the main market in Mogadishu, a stronghold of the Islamist Shebab rebels, as government and allied forces geared up to flush the Shebab out, residents said. The Somali troops and their African Union allies started advancing on Bakara market — a major economic lifeline to the war-torn city — on Sunday when they...Continue reading »
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NTDTV Now we go to Somalia, where government forces and Africa Union peacekeepers mount an offensive against rebels in the capital Mogadishu. 22 al Shabaab militants have reportedly been killed. The goal is to secure part of the strategic Bakara Market, an important rebel stronghold. Amid heavy gun battles, African Union peacekeepers and Somali government forces hit a...Continue reading »
NAIROBI, Kenya — Members of the United Nations Security Councilsent an unusually blunt message to the Somalia’s leaders on Wednesday to stop fighting among themselves or risk losing millions of dollars a year from Western donors. Somalia’s leaders survive solely on international support, but instead of using that money to fight the Islamist militants who rule much...Continue reading »
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged Somalia’s transitional federal institutions (TFIs) to demonstrate they are moving the country towards political stability and social-economic development, saying the Security Council and donors are losing patience with the tensions within the leadership. “The TFIs must… show real progress on key tasks such as constitution-making,...Continue reading »
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali politicians are returning from Arab nations with briefcases of cash, and a Somali government watchdog report obtained by The Associated Press found that more than $70 million of it is missing instead of being used to fight terrorism, piracy or hunger. The large cash payments encourage politicians to hang onto power while paying little attention...Continue reading »
Mohamed Dahir/AFP/Getty Image (CNN) – After cruising the high seas for nine days, a young crew of Somali and Yemeni pirates spotted a U.S.-flagged yacht and boarded the vessel unbeknownst to its sleeping passengers in the hopes of cashing in on a big ransom, according to a court statement of facts. But the February hijacking went awry when the men allegedly opened...Continue reading »
Three British nationals, an American and two Kenyans have been arrested at the Mogadishu international airport with bags loaded with $3.6 million USD after they were intercepted by the TFG Police upon their arrival to the country. Confirming this Somali Police spokesman Abdullahi Hassan Barise said that the money is now under the control of the TFG Ministry of finance...Continue reading »
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali politicians are returning from Arab nations with briefcases of cash, and a Somali government watchdog report obtained by The Associated Press found that more than $70 million of it is missing instead of being used to fight terrorism, piracy or hunger. The large cash payments encourage politicians to hang onto power while paying little attention...Continue reading »
Government of Alberta has recently made an announcement of critical funding that will enable the Canadian Somali community to prevent youth crime. This is a great victory for the Canadian Somali community. After a lot of advocacy efforts, the government of Alberta has finally listened to our concerns and provided the Alberta Somali community with much needed funding to...Continue reading »
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Government forces and African Union peacekeepers advanced Sunday against rebels in several Mogadishu neighborhoods, gaining ground in their campaign to take control of the Bakara market, officials and witnesses said. Abdihakim Hajji Mohamoud Fiqi, Somalia’s defense minister, said the government and peacekeeping forces had taken over Wadnaha Road,...Continue reading »
Somali women empower themselves by opening successful businesses in the US. Deeqo Jibril is always on the go. Whether she is tending to her four children or teaching breast cancer awareness classes to women in her community, the Somali-born community organiser is always up for a new challenge. Recently, she gave up her job as a social worker to focus full time...Continue reading »
Three Somali men have pleaded guilty in US federal court to piracy for their role in a hijacking that ended in the deaths of four American sailors. Jean and Scott Adam were shot to death, along with two passengers Bob Riggle and Phyllis Macay They face life sentences, but could receive lighter terms and eventually be deported to Somalia. Two of them also pleaded guilty...Continue reading »
Self-declared sovereign state commemorates 20th anniversary of its founding Dubai: Somaliland commemorated the 20th anniversary of its founding on Wednesday — a major milestone in itself considering the unfortunate plight of central-south Somalia which plunged deep into a seemingly bottomless quagmire. After the hand-over of power President Silanyo, the new government...Continue reading »
Golaha Ammaanka ee Qaramada Midoobay ayaa shirkii uu ka yeeshay arrimaha Soomaaliya ka soo saaray baaq uu u jeediyay siyaasiyiinta iyo waxgaradka Soomaalida.Goluhu wuxuu sheegay inuu ka xun yahay deganaansho la’aanta muddada dheer ka taagan Soomaaliya, taasoo oo sababtay dhibaatooyin kala gedisan oo ay ka mid yihiin argagixisinimada, falalka burcadbadeedda iyo dhaca...Continue reading »
The mayor of Mogadishu insists that the gunfire and mortar explosions of his legendarily dangerous city are greatly exaggerated. “It’s much safer than Baghdad,” he says brightly. After 20 years of devastating war, the people of Mogadishu have few dreams beyond their daily survival. A level of violence marginally lower than Baghdad might be all they dare hope for. But...Continue reading »
WAITING anxiously at the airport, Isha Munya cranes her neck as people stream through the arrival lounge, desperate to catch her first glimpse of the daughter she last saw 19 years ago in war-torn Somalia. She remembers the tears and the dread in her stomach two decades earlier when she said goodbye to Faduma, aged just eight at the time, before fleeing the violence of...Continue reading »
WASHINGTON — The world is expected to get its first glimpse at Osama bin Laden’s daily life as the world’s most wanted terrorist Saturday with the disclosure of home videos showing him strolling the grounds of the fortified compound that kept him safe for years. The footage shot at the terror leader’s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and propaganda...Continue reading »
Maputo — The border guards of Mozambique have killed at least Somali migrants at the border between Mozambique and Tanzania. The young Somalis, who ran from the civil war and conflict in Somalia, were on en-route to South Africa where they wanted to get a better life than they had in their country. Bashi Omar told Shabelle that Mozambique security forces in the border...Continue reading »
For the past one year, security forces in Northern Kenya have grappled with illegal Ethiopian and Somali immigrants entering the country. The Ethiopians, who are the majority, use the country as a transit route in search of greener pastures in places such as South Africa. The security threat the country has been exposed to following the influx is entry of members of dreaded...Continue reading »
CAIRO — Islam is opposed to burials at sea, a spokesman for Al-Azhar, the top Sunni Muslim authority, said on Monday after US officials said Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been given a watery grave. “If it is true that the body was thrown into the sea, then Islam is totally against that,” Mahmud Azab, an adviser to the grand imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb,...Continue reading »
