Dear Mr. President, I am an American citizen of Somali descent, an unaffiliated voter who also happens be in your e-mail list, and you Mr. President, the first lady, the vice president, the DNC and many other Democratic Party officials’ e-mails are regularly finding their way into my inbox. Allow me Mr. President to pick [...]
Four African Union (AU) peacekeepers have been killed in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, after al-Shabab fighters fired a mortar at the presidential palace. “A mortar was fired at one of our positions, and it killed four soldiers and injured eight,” said Ba-Hoku Barigye, a spokesman for the peacekeeping force. Barigye said the dead soldiers are all [...]
Al shabaab militants attacked hotel Muna, near the Presidential palace, in the Somali capital –popular with MP’s and government ministers. The assault lasted almost half an hour, with fighters wearing military uniform opening fire inside the hotel and later staging suicide bombing. At least 30 people have been killed, including several MP’s. More than 50 [...]
WASHINGTON — The government announced Thursday that it has charged 14 people as participants in “a deadly pipeline” to Somalia that routed money and fighters from the United States to the terrorist group al-Shabab. The indictments unsealed in Minneapolis, Minn.; San Diego, Calif.; and Mobile, Ala., reflect “a disturbing trend” of recruitment efforts targeting U.S. [...]
NAIROBI, Kenya — If there is one place on the African continent that could benefit from new thinking, it is Somalia, a country that has been mired in mutating forms of civil war for nearly 20 years. But that is apparently not, many analysts contend, what Africa’s leaders are prepared to give it. Instead, the [...]
The Northern Somalia Unionist Movement (NSUM) and the people of the regions of Sool, Sanag and Cayn (SSC) wholeheartedly welcome Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud (Sililaanyo)’s call for peace in the SSC regions on the occasion of his taking over as leader of the secessionist administration in parts of the NW region of Somalia. Siilaanyo needs no [...]
HARGEISA, Somalia — Fierce fighting broke out Monday between the forces from the Somali breakaway state of Puntland and an Al Qaeda-linked militia, officials said. Security officials said at least three Puntland soldiers died while Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole claimed that 13 rebels were killed in the clashes that erupted near Galgala in western [...]
When he was still in office, Kenya’s retired President, Daniel arap Moi, woke up in a foul mood one day. And standing at a long forgotten roadside, rungu firmly in hand, he told Somalis in Kenya to go back home. “We also have our own problems,” he fumed. He had been irked by the shenanigans [...]
Mr. Abdi Ibrahim Warsame (Qowdhan) Deputy Minister of Finance who is also Acting Minister of Finance Puntland State, Somalia Garowe: On 23rd of June 2010, a Gallad chartered airplane loaded with illegal banknotes cargo, constituting of 17.5 billion Somali shillings landed at Galkayo Airport. The Puntland Government intelligence sources confirmed that the printing of these [...]
Somalis in regions controlled by Islamist extremists have staged protests against plans by an East African regional bloc to send 2,000 additional peacekeepers to Somalia. Witnesses say hundreds of people in al-Shabab-controlled towns in Lower Jubba, Hiran, Gedo, Middle Shabelle, and Bay regions protested IGAD’s plan to send more troops to Somalia under the African [...]
The over–hyped presidential election in the one-clan based secessionist enclave calling itself Somaliland, otherwise the NW region of Somalia, is more than a race for the post among the competing candidates. It is above all a well-organised show to con the international community for recognition. Its message is that here in the enclave, peace and [...]
The IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government held its 15th Extra- Ordinary Summit Meeting in Addis Ababa, on 5th July 2010, under the Chairmanship of H.E. Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Chairperson of the IGAD Assembly to consider the political and security situation in Somalia. Read [...]
Anti-government demonstrators, including women dressed in full hijabs brandishing AK-47 automatic rifles, marched through the streets of Somalia’s violence-torn capital Monday. The marchers shouted slogans and carried English-language signs accusing the African Union Mission in Somalia, or AMISOM, a peacekeeping military force backing the government, of killing people. “AMISOM killed my mummy” and “AMISOM get [...]
Somalia’s prime minister has named members of a powerful moderate Islamic militia to the Cabinet, more than three months after the government signed a power-sharing deal with them. Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke appointed late Saturday members of Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama to the ministries of National Security, Finance, Health and Education. To accommodate [...]
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