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Mogadishu — A car bomb went off on Saturday in central Mogadishu near a hotel popular with government officials and businessmen, police and witnesses said. ?There was a car bomb explosion near the rear gate of the Maka Al Mukarama hotel. It seems that the car was parked there loaded with explosives but we are…

Sheikh Ali Mohamud Raage (Ali Dheere) The Spokesman for the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab denied the claims that he was killed. The spokesman declared that he disliked telling the Kenyan Defence Forces that he was still alive, but did not want to spread frantic fear amongst the Somali citizens. “It is one of their lies that…

  Double world and Olympic champion Mo Farah has spoken about the continuing sacrifices he makes to remain the world’s top distance runner. Farah won the 5,000 and 10,000 metres at the London Olympics in 2012 and repeated the golden double at the World Championships in Moscow last year. The Somalia-born 30-year-old had also won…

POLICE have apologised after officers demanded to see identification from everyone in a cafe in Easton while they searched for a suspect. The incident happened amid complaints about heavy handed police work within the Somali community in Bristol. Hibaq Jama, a Somali-born city councillor who represents the Lawrence Hill ward, told the Bristol Post she…

U.S Department of State Press Release Friday, March 14, 2014 Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program is offering rewards for information on three members of the Somalia-based terrorist organization Harakat Shabaab al-Mujahidin, al-Shabaab. The Department has authorized rewards of up to $3 million each for information…

March 14, 2014:  Foreign aid workers are demanding better security now that al Shabaab has been largely driven from Mogadishu and much of the countryside. That’s not going to happen and there’s a simple reason why. In the last few weeks a large offensive by peacekeepers and Somali troops drove al Shabaab out of five…

n 11 March 2014, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea approved the removal of the individual specified below from the List of individuals and entities subject to the travel ban, assets freeze and targeted arms embargo imposed by paragraphs 1, 3 and 7 of resolution 1844…

The ramshackle capital of Somaliland, Hargeisa, in northern Somalia has a bustling market for camels and is a frequent destination for aid workers. International businessmen are relatively rare. Yet untapped oil reserves have lured a number of foreign companies to the city, chief among them the Turkey’s Genel Energy under the leadership of ex-BP CEO…

MOGADISHU – Five people were killed when a government convoy struck a landmine in southern Somalia’s Lower Juba region, eyewitnesses said. Government forces sealed off the area following the blast. Somali authorities have yet to comment on the incident, for which no group has claimed responsibility. Somalia has suffered from on-again, off-again violence since the…

Mohamud Noor got a significant boost in his challenge of long-time state Rep. Phyllis Kahn on Thursday by winning the endorsement of former Mayor R.T. Rybak. Rybak’s endorsement is sure to shake up the race, an intraparty DFL battle that has already exposed tensions within the city’s Somali-American community. Noor would be the legislature’s first…

His Excellency President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud today met H.E Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, and thanked the government and people of Japan for the country’s growing development assistance to Somalia. Meeting in Tokyo to discuss a wide range of bilateral issues focusing on development and humanitarian assistance, the two leaders held a joint press…

His Excellency Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed today welcomed the IGAD agreement on South Sudan and urged not only the immediate end of hostilities but an urgent need for the international community to respond to a growing food shortage. Speaking at the 25th Extraordinary Summit of IGAD Heads of State and Government Summit, in Addis…

Amnesty International says extensive intimidation and human rights abuse is forcing Somali refugees out of Kenya. In a report published on Wednesday, the human rights group warned over the hostile environment in Kenya, saying that the refugees are actively targeted by the police with indiscriminate arrests. According to the report, named No Place Like Home,…

MOGADISHU- For the first time, Somali farmers are turning themselves into suppliers of high-quality food assistance, which WFP will use to support their fellow Somali people. Agricultural communities – especially in south-central Somalia, the country’s grain basket – have, over the last two decades, been severely affected by conflict and recurrent drought, which has resulted…

DADAAB, Kenya, March 13 (UNHCR) – Six years ago, Muuxi Adam met two friends in a coffee shop in the Canadian city of Winnipeg to talk about ways they could help other Somalis stuck in refugee camps in Africa. The three, all Somali but from different clans, started by setting up a non-governmental organization, Humankind…

Somalia must seize the opportunity to develop its marine resources after decades of neglect, His Excellency President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said in Japan today. Speaking in Tokyo on the second day of his visit to Japan, the President said: “We have the longest coastline in Africa and now that the country is recovering from conflict…

During the last week, EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Somalia Operation Atalanta warships FGS Hessen and ESPS Tornado have carried out several ‘Friendly Approaches’ in the Gulf of Aden, EU NAVFOR announces in its press release. In addition to patrols in the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC) in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean,…