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Officials from Al Shabaab have confirmed to Radio Dalsan that they are ready to respond to Kenyan MP Adan Duale who hinted negotiations with the group to stop attacks inside Kenya. Official said that his group will look into the Kenyan national assembly majority leader if at all he is speaking officially on behalf of…
Reports from Somali southern city of Bardere state that Kenyan fighter jets have hit Al Shabaab base near the city. The cusualties still unclear. The move comes after Al Shabaab said that it will respond to Kenyan MP suggestion for negotiations to stop attacks inside Kenya. National assembly majority leader and close aide of Kenyan…
The Daily Sabah Center for Policy Studies is launching the first of its conference series on Turkey in London. An exclusive panel, “Turkish Foreign Policy in Somalia: Humanitarian or Strategic?” will take place in one of the most prestigious universities of the city, the University of London’s School of Oriental and Africa Studies (SOAS), on…
This article and radio report by Ryan Katz for The World originally appeared on PRI.org on March 10, 2015, and is republished as part of a content-sharing agreement. Abdi Awali has a routine he’s followed every month for years: He heads to a money-transfer business by his house in Minneapolis, gives the teller some basic information and slides $100 through a…
In what is starting to seem like a slow, steady drip of ‘foreign fighter’ cases, six U.S. residents of Bosnian origin were arrested in early February and charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.To send al-Qaeda, its Syrian off-shoot the al-Nusra Front, and the ISIS a few thousand dollars and some hardware that…
NAIROBI: The Leader of Majority in National Assembly Adan Duale has controversially said Kenya is ready to negotiate with Somalia’s terrorist group Al-Shabaab for the sake of peace. Duale said they are ready to send elders and religious leaders to lead in the negotiations. “If you want us to send you elders, and religious leaders…
Shabaab kills senior Somali military officer in an attack. The group claimed responsibility through affiliated media outlets Al-Shabaab members raided the house of a senior Somali military officer in Gedo overnight, killing him and five family members. “I can confirm that officer Iman Adow and members of his family were killed in the night attack…
March 15, 2015: Defectors and captured al Shabaab members report that that group’s leaders are dismayed that other Islamic terror groups like ISIL (al Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant) in Syria and Boko Haram in Nigeria are crowding al Shabaab out of the media. Al Shabaab needs that media attention for fund raising and…
United States forces targeted a leader of the Al Shabaab militant group in an operation in southern Somalia this week, the Pentagon said late on Friday, a day after villagers reported a drone strike killed three members of the Al Qaeda-affiliated organisation. US officials declined to name the target of the strike, but CBS News…
A senior member of the al-Shabab militant group who allegedly helped to plan the Westgate Mall attack in Kenya in 2013 has been killed by a drone strike in Somalia, according to a senior Kenyan official. Adan Garar and two others are thought to have been killed after their car was targeted near the town…
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a former Somali prime minister who was ordered to pay more than $20 million to victims of human rights abuses in his country. The court Monday declined to review a lower court ruling that allows a lawsuit to proceed against Mohamed Ali Samantar. He served as…
On Feb. 22, CBS Evening News reporter Jeff Pegues concluded his report about East African terrorist groups and ramped-up security at the Mall of America with, “Al-Shabaab has found sympathizers in Minneapolis’ large Somali-American population, where more than 20 people have been charged with trying to join the group.” The fact is, only a dozen…
MOGADISHU Somalia (Xinhua)Casting his eyes into the blue calm waters of the Indian Ocean, Aweys Mohamed Nor knows too well that in no time his men will be making way to the shores with another catch, adding another day to his over two decades fishing experience. Hamarweyne is an ancient Arab market dating back hundreds…
NAIROBI – Eclipsed by newer, more bloodthirsty and media-savvy global jihadists, Somalia’s Shebab militants are struggling to stay relevant. On Saturday the two most rapidly ascendant militant Islamist groups joined forces, in words at least, as Nigeria’s Boko Haram declared its allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. The rise of these…
Mogadishu, March 1, 2015-The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) welcomes today’s court verdict against the journalists to pay fines in return for their freedom, but voiced the chilling effect such heavy fines could have to the press freedom and freedom of expression in the country and urged the regional court to review the decision….
A number of Somaliland websites published an article written by Abdihakim Musa Ali against the hardworking competent minster Hersi Hajji Ali. I have read noted Abdihakim’s article. Even though everybody is free and open to express his point of view in the way he believes, however, Abdihakim’s commentary is remote from the reality in the…
Fleeing civil war in his native Somalia, Liban Ali arrived in San Diego in 2001. He found peace, employment, a better life — and a disturbing mystery. “Soon after our daughter was born, we found that something was wrong with her,” said Ali, 43, a cabdriver who lives in San Diego’s El Cerrito neighborhood. “It…
(NBC) — Officials say publicly there is no “credible threat” of an attack on America’s shopping malls, despite an on-line “call to action” by terror group al Shabab — but behind the scenes authorities are taking the threat seriously, because previous calls to action have been heeded by violent “lone wolves.” Last October a soldier…
NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya’s police force says 174 people were killed in 2014 in attacks by Islamic extremists, the highest number in the three years that Kenya has experienced violence blamed on neighboring Somalia’s al-Shabab militants. In statistics released Wednesday the Kenyan police said 312 people were killed in the country in militant attacks since…
NAIROBI— President Barack Obama nominated career diplomat Katherine Dhanani Tuesday to serve as the first U.S. ambassador to Somalia since 1991. The Senate must approve Dhanani for the post. If confirmed, she would lead the U.S. Mission to Somalia, which is located in neighboring Kenya. Dhanani has served in diplomatic assignments across Africa, including Zimbabwe,…