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Islamist terror group Al-Shabaab has once again begun to strike rural villages near the Kenyan town of Garissa, little more than a month after the jihadists stormed Garissa University and killed 147 Christian students after separating them from their Muslim colleagues. Al Jazeera reports that the latest town to fall victim to the Somali terror…
A Somali parliamentarian has been shot dead and another wounded in the capital Mogadishu, the latest in a string of assassinations of politicians in the war-torn African state. Security officials said that the shooting attack was carried out on Saturday when lawmaker Yusuf Dirir Abdi was driving with another parliamentarian Abdalla Boos through the streets…
Mogadishu, May 23, 2015 The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns the acts of oppression, media censorship, intimidations, arbitrary arrests aimed at silencing the independent media by the semiautonomous administration of Puntland and Ahlu Sunna Waljama in Guriel’s central Somalia and calls for both administrations to unconditionally withdrew such cruel approaches that undermines media…
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Police leaders in southern Maine are talking with members of the city’s large Somali population about future openings in law enforcement. Chief Michael Bussiere of the Lewiston Police Department visited schools in the area and discovered many Somali boys listed law enforcement as their dream job, the Sun-Journal (http://bit.ly/1Ajgvga) reported. Speaking…
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Kenyan forces fought suspected al-Shabab members in a village close to the northeastern town where a massacre of college students took place last month, according to the interior ministry. The ministry said in a statement Friday that the security forces on Thursday evening “thwarted an attempted attack” after the residents of…
Abdullah Mohammed Hassan climbed down from his perch, and strolled purposefully into the sea to rescue yet another bather who appeared to be struggling against big waves and a rocky, barbed-wire-infested shoreline at Lido beach, on the northern edge of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. “We save people here every day,” said the 46-year-old policeman –…
Samantha Lewthwaite, a British convert to Islam and commander with Somali militant group al-Shabaab known as the “White Widow,” is in charge of a 200-strong army of female spies, UK newspaper The Daily Mail reported on Wednesday. Lewthwaite, who is the widow of one of the London 7/7 bombers, is working al-Shabaab’s spy unit, known…
Two of seven Minnesota men accused of plotting to go to Syria to join the Islamic State group face additional charges of financial aid fraud, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday. The indictment alleges Hamza Naj Ahmed, 21, and Hanad Mustafe Musse, 19, used federal financial aid to purchase plane tickets. Authorities say they…
While it is too soon to celebrate definitive success in Somalia, and while the situation remains challenging, progress is being made and the international community would be missing a strategic opportunity if it failed to realize how much is being achieved, the top United Nations in the country told the Security Council today. “When I…
Somalia is a country still fighting a bloody civil war. But as the government slowly begins to reassert its authority some former al-Shabab militants are leaving the group. One of the most senior figures to defect from the al-Qaeda linked militant group has urged his former colleagues to stop targeting civilians and to begin negotiations…
Hargeisa-Somaliland president Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo remarked on his governments concerned regarding the beefing up of the so called Somalia army by the international community. Somaliland president spoke of the matter on his annual speech at the celebration commemorating the 24th anniversary of the re-affirmation of the state of Somaliland in 1991. Mr. Silanyo in his…
MOGADISHU: The Somali police force has banned its officers from drugging themselves with a popular local stimulant while on duty, police chief Mohamed Hassan Haamud announced Monday. Haamud said officers may no longer chew khat – also known as miraa – a herb popular in the Horn of Africa, Kenya and the Arabian Peninsula that…
The militants said on Sunday they were in possession of the drone which they claimed belonged to the US after it came down near El Bashir village, Xinhua news agency reported. There was no comment from the Somali government or the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) which has been battling the militant group alongside…
COMPARED to the great majority of African countries, Somalia is one characterised largely by distinctive homogeneity. Regardless of regional distribution all Somalis speak the same language, practice the same religion – virtually all belong to the “Shafi i Rite” of the Sunni faction of Islam – and eat the same food – with only minor deviations. Though…
U.S. COUNTERTERRORISM AGENCIES have long been preoccupied with the threat posed by the recruiting successes of the Somali terrorist group al Shabaab in Western countries. The group has managed to lure hundreds of foreign fighters — including some 40 Americans — to Somalia through online propaganda videos and word-of-mouth in disaffected immigrant communities. In recent years,…
A senior Somali army officer was killed on Tuesday by Al-Shabaab in Somalia’s central town of Beledweyne. “Gunmen raided his home and shot him in the presence of his family,” police official Aden Hussein told. “We believe it was Al-Shabaab who killed him,” said Hussein, who is based in Somalia’s Hiraan province, of which Beledweyne…
The politically motivated Cadaan-Studies brought into being when a group of Western Scholars arrived Somaliland, and introduced an Academic Journal jointly with the Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution of the University of Hargeisa. The aim of the Somaliland Journal of African Studies is to cover African Studies at large, but particularly the journal focuses…
On the morning of 12 May, Mahdi Hashi was brought from a high-security cell in New York’s Manhattan Correctional Facility, where he had been held in solitary confinement since 2012, and asked to answer the charge of providing support to the Somalia terrorist group al-Shabaab. Hashi, 25, who grew up in Camden, north London, but…
MOGADISHU, May 15 (Xinhua) — Al-Shabaab on Thursday night recaptured two towns under government control in Lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia, authorities said on Friday. Lower Shabelle governor Abdulkadir Mohamed Nor Sidi told Xinhua on Friday that Al-Shabaab fighters launched a daring attack late night Thursday in the towns of Awdeegle and Mubakar, killing…
Somali terror group Al-Shabaab has vowed it will carry out terror attacks in Uganda and Burundi in retaliation for the presence of troops from the two countries in Somalia. The terrorists released a video in which one of the group leaders tells Ugandans and Burundians not to feel “perturbed when an attack takes place in…