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Kenya: The Government is facing challenges in raising Sh8.8 billion needed to fund the voluntary repatriation of refugees from Somalia back to their home country. Kenya, Somalia and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have been seeking the money from the international community for the repatriation of more than half a million Somali…
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Al-Shabaab’s top leader was traveling in one of two vehicles hit Monday night in a US military strike, a member of the Somali Islamic extremist group said Tuesday. The spokesman would not say whether al-Shabaab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane was among the six militants killed. The two vehicles were heading toward the coastal…
September 01, 2014 Speaking in Ankara, Turkey, while attending the inauguration of the President of Turkey, HE the President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud strongly condemned today’s attack by al Shabaab on the NISA Facility in Mogadishu. “Just before midday today, 31 August 2014, 7 members of al Shabaab attacked the National Intelligence & Security…
Mogadishu, 01 September 2014 – H.E. Mustafa Duhulow, the Minister of Information, today warmly welcomed cabinet approval of the draft Media Law, saying: “The Media Law is in the interest of Somalis, it will let us enhance the development of Somali Media.” The draft Media Law went through different stages of development and a series…
Mogadishu, 31 August 2014 – H.E. Mustafa Duhulow, the Minister of Information today praised security forces’ bravery in halting an attack on the Godka Jilicow detention centre in Mogadishu. “Around 11:40 am today terrorists attempted to force their way into a government detention centre in Mogadishu. 7 al-Shabaab members (5 wearing stolen security forces uniforms)…
MOGADISHU, Aug 31 (Reuters) – A suicide car bomber rammed a national-intelligence facility in Somalia’s capital on Sunday and gunmen then attacked the building, which is used to hold suspected militants a senior police officer said. “A suicide car bomb and armed militants entered the national security base,” Ahmed Hussein, a senior police officer, told…
Mogadishu, 30 August 2014 – HE the Minister of Information, Mustafa Duhulow, today addressed the media in Mogadishu, providing an update on the progress of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) over the last week. The Minister discussed various issues including: the Military Court’s conviction of two members of Al-Shabaab; Talks between the FGS and…
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Three men were executed by firing squad on Sunday after a Somali military court found them guilty of killing civilians in a series of recent attacks in the country blamed on al Shabaab Islamist militants. The men were hooded and tied to poles with their hands behind their backs in a field…
NAIROBI (Reuters) – War-ravaged Somalia is hurtling towards a second famine in three years that could be prevented if donors increased funding, Philippe Lazzarini, United Nations’ humanitarian coordinator for Somalia said on Sunday. Lazzarini said rapidly rising malnutrition and food shortages across the country resemble the warning signs which preceded the 2011 famine in which…
MINNEAPOLIS – The U.S. military said today the number of airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq has topped 100. President Barack Obama is getting closer to a decision on whether to attack ISIS bases in Syria as well. He’s expected to meet with the National Security Council on Thursday. An American named Douglas McAuthur McCain…
DADAAB:KENYA: UNHCR has donated two new project vehicles to Mandera County government. The donation which also included sleeping mats and blankets took place at Mandera County offices on Monday where the County Governor, Ali Roba received them. Among leaders also present were Mandera County Commissioner, Ole Nkoyo Alex and UNHCR Head of Operations in Dadaab,…
HARGEISA, Somaliland (CNN) —In 1856, British explorer Richard Burton described Somalia as a nation of poets. It may seem an unlikely moniker for a country that has since become defined by piracy, state collapse, and the many horrors unleashed by Al-Shabaab — the Islamic extremists who control much of the country. But, much has changed…
“The president has arrived, the president has arrived,” chant youths in Mogadishu’s Beerta Khaatka market, as armed men in trucks mounted with machine guns escort lorries with horns blaring through the throng. The joking salutation is not for Somalia’s president, but hails white sacks brimming with leafy sprouts of khat, the narcotic shrub chewed across…
Douglas McCain, a Minnesotan who had been killed fighting alongside ISIS, was childhood best friends with another American who had joined an al Qaeda-linked terror group fighting in Somalia. One of McCain’s closest childhood friends was Troy Kastigar. Over a decade ago, Kastigar and McCain had shared an address, and the two graduated together from…
A Toronto woman gunned down in Calgary early Saturday was an innocent bystander in the wrong place at the wrong time, police say. Natasha Mohamed Farah, 26, was killed in a shooting near 11th Ave. and 1st St. Southwest at about 3 a.m. Ms. Farah, who had just recently moved to Calgary, was pronounced dead…
The ITUC has strongly backed a protest by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) over the Somali government’s detention of 19 journalists and the closure of independent radio stations. According to witnesses, three of the journalists were severely beaten in detention. The ITUC understands that a court has now extended the detention period of the…
Copy to: Somali-land donors Office, Hargeisa Copy to: UNDP Office, Hargeisa Copy to: All Eidagale traditional leaders Copy to: All to whom it may concern In the situation like the above in which some greedy elements of the society attempt to profit in the expenses of the poor people, all of us are obliged to speak and defend the voiceless people regardless any part of somaliland…
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) and the Finnish Foundation for Media and Development (VIKES) conducted a two-phase, three day workshop for 80 journalists invited from the whole media stations in Mogadishu at Siyaad City Hotel on 23 – 25 August, 2014. The workshop, which is part of series of workshops planned to develop…
His Excellency, Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed attended an extraordinary meeting in Ethiopia; The East African regional organization IGAD. This high level meeting consisted of East African heads of state that congregated to discuss the crisis in South Sudan. The need for all parties to adhere to agreements and cease violence was emphasized and the…
The German Government pledged that it will assist the Somali refugees who live in Ethiopia together with the other refugees from Horn of Africa with €750,000. The government of Germany said it will give that money through the WFP so that food aid can be delivered to the Somali refugees in the refugee camps in…