Tag: News in English

Mogadishu, 27 May 2013(SDN) –Somalia President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has issued a statement strongly condemning an attack by Al Shabaab operatives on two police posts in Liboi on Saturday. The attack in Liboi led the deaths of at least six people, two of whom were police officers.  Two other people are said to have been…

A Manchester community group has warned that a legal plant-based drug that is widely used in Britain’s Somali community could lead to addiction and serious health problems. Members of Manchester based Educate 4 Life believe that khat, a plant native to east Africa, lowers inhibitions with potentially dangerous results. They claim that it’s amphetamine-like substances…

This is part of a special ‘People on the Move’ series, highlighting the human rights violations faced by migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in every part of the world. These profiles are being published around the launch of Amnesty International’s Annual Report 2013. Abubaker Ali Osman, a Somali engineer until recently living in Libya, never imagined…

Mogadishu, May 27 2013 (SDN) – AMISOM and Somali authorities rounded suspected Al Shabaab agents in a morning raid in Mogadishu’s Wadajir district. The joint operation conducted by Somali government forces and AMISOM forces carried out on today occurred in the neighborhood of Bulo Hubey where men all ages were rounded up and taken to…

The force dreamed of half a century ago by the founding fathers of independent Africa still exists only on paper, casting a shadow over the back-slapping at this weekend’s African Union (AU) summit, which is marking 50 years since the foundation of its precursor, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). Instead of a muscular rapid-response…

London, May 26 2013 (SDN) —One of two men arrested over the murder of a British soldier in a London street was detained in Kenya in 2010 on suspicion of seeking to train with an al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, Kenyan police said on Sunday. Confirmation that Michael Adebolajo was held in Kenya and deported…

In the United Kingdom it is clear that nobody is concerned about converts to Buddhism and Hinduism being involved in killing people in the name of God, Gods or the Buddha. Indeed, within the Islamic faith it is clear that the Alawites, Alevi, Ahmadiyya, Shia, and a plethora of other sects, are not involved in…

Nairobi, May 26 2013 (SDN) — Gunmen have killed five people including two police officers in an attack along Kenya’s volatile border with war-torn Somalia, with Islamist insurgents making a rare claim of responsibility. Somalia’s Islamist Shebab insurgents said they carried out the attack, in which gunmen fired on a police post near the border…

Kenya’s exit strategy from Somalia has hit a major diplomatic wall after Mogadishu developed hostility towards the new leadership of a newly formed autonomous region in southern Somalia. The Standard on Sunday has also learnt the reluctance by Somalia’s federal government under President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to warm up to Sheikh Ahmed Madobe’s leadership at…

Kismayo May 25,2013(SDN)-Despite the IGAD Summit communique of the 22nd Extra-ordinary session on the situation in Somalia, Mogadishu is still provoking the Jubbaland Administration to catalyze insecurity, hostility and animosity among the clans, which will eventually result in the Jubbaland community give up in shielding Al-Shabaab from Jubbaland regions. This gives the impression that Mogadishu…

Addis Ababa, May 25, 2013(SDN) -Following the Extra-ordinary session of the IGAD Assembly of the Heads of State and Government on the Situation in Somalia held in Addis Ababa, IGAD tasked Somali Federal Government to ” timely convene and lead reconciliation conference with the support of IGAD while consulting key stakeholders in the Juba Regions…

  Hargeisa, May 25, 2013(SDN) -This is how it ends for a Somali pirate: not with the bang of a rifle, but with a quiet fadeout into a sewing class, a vegetable garden and a basketball court. At least 34 convicted pirates are locked away in the remote city of Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared…

Statement of H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of the Federal Republic of Somalia 22nd Extra-Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of IGAD 24 May 2013, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia‏ Statement of H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of the Federal Republic of Somalia 22nd Extra-Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of IGAD 24…

MOGADISHU (IPS) – In the Hamarweyne market, Mogadishu’s largest, 24 year old Maryama Yunis is finding success with her tiny cosmetic store. The young Somali has been in business for two years, selling everything from soaps and shampoos to lipsticks and eyeliners, and now she’s turning a decent profit.“As more and more young women in…

  Mogadishu 23, May (SDN) – A spate of attacks by Islamic insurgents in Somalia’s capital is forcing investors, businessmen and aid workers to have second thoughts about expanding operations in Mogadishu. African Union and Somali troops pushed al-Shabab insurgents out of the capital in August 2011, fostering a relatively secure peace that Mogadishu hasn’t…

Nairobi, 23, May (SDN) – Kenya has been asked to rethink its support for the self-declared state of Jubaland in southern Somalia as the region and the Federal governments squabble. The situation has further been compounded with warlords drawn from various declaring themselves president. A group of Kenyan businessmen warned that Kenya’s security is likely…

Mogadishu 23, May (SDN) – The Elman sisters are bathed in the honey glow of Somalia’s late afternoon sun, the only sounds coming from an iPhone in a pink case that chirps continuously and the bursts of chatter from women upstairs. A sign in the corner of the office where they sit reads: “Real Men…