Somalia: Aw Diinle Free Again From Al-Shabaab
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-12 23:20:29 -0700 | travel-news
Somali government forces backed by Ethiopian troops completely pushed al-Shabaab out of Aw Diinle in the Bay region on Friday (May 10th), UN-funded Radio Bar-Kulan reported. Aw Diinle, a former militant stronghold in the region, has switched hands multiple times...
Lawyers debate who's a terrorist as sentences near in Minn. Somali trials
Source: Star Tribune
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-12 20:05:24 -0700 | travel-news
Branding the nine defendants recruiters, supporters and participants in a terrorist organization in Somalia called Al-Shabab, the U.S. attorney's office is recommending sentences ranging from five to 50 years, asserting in some of the cases that terrorists are less likely...
Rapes on rise in Somaliland, say medical officials
Source: Boston.com
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-12 09:21:22 -0700 | political-news
Somalia (AP) An upsurge of gang rapes has hit the breakaway region of Somaliland a normally peaceful enclave considered by many to be a sanctuary from Somalia's decades of violence. Knife-wielding young men follow women along the dusty streets of...
Somalia: 3,000 Amisom Forces Killed in Somalia
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-11 23:38:11 -0700 | travel-news
Secretary Eliasson paid tribute to the fallen U.N. mandated African Union (AU) forces...Over 10 African countries have troops in the African Union mission to Somalia the majority of those troops are from Uganda, Burundi and Kenya who joined in 2011....
Fury as taxpayers fund Somali leader's i¿½50,000 trip to London and stay in the Dorchester hotel
Source: Mail Online UK
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-11 20:06:19 -0700 | political-news
The president stayed at The Dorchester hotel with his entourage of five minsters and 14 assistants while he attended a conference at Lancaster House to receive aid for his war-torn country. According to The Sun, President Mohamud, 57, and his...
Streetlights bring normality to Mogadishu
Source: BBC
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-11 07:27:30 -0700 | political-news
For twenty-odd years the dusty streets of this infamously dangerous city have emptied in a furious hurry at sunset...One section had been cordoned off with some stones and was being used for driving lessons...Solar-powered, Chinese-manufactured, astonishingly bright streetlights have been...
You will vote in next polls, Uhuru assures diaspora Kenyans
Source: Daily Nation
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-11 07:14:25 -0700 | political-news
President Uhuru Kenyatta has assured Kenyans in the diaspora of voting in the next General Election. He said measures to ensure this happens were already ongoing in line with the Constitution. While addressing Kenyans living in South Africa, President Kenyatta...
Somalia: Why Elections Matter in Somaliland
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-11 00:18:41 -0700 | political-news
As news and analysis emerges from the second UK-Somalia conference in London, the absence of the government of Somaliland is noticeable. Somalia and Somaliland are bound by many longstanding ties, but over the past two decades their political trajectories have...
No Concessions: The Project and the Conservative Film Industrial Complex
Source: The Fader
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-10 11:50:48 -0700 | entertainment-news
Michael Zelenko Have you ever tasted ketchup that's gone bad?...Ketchup ferments, and although the effect isn't necessarily badif anything it's sweeterthere's an undeniable sensation of something not right, of something off. That's the same feeling I had while watching The...
US Special Ops Have Become Much, Much Scarier Since 9/11
Source: BusinessInsider
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-10 10:05:18 -0700 | business-news
What they developed looked like a paramilitary CIA, according to Scahill's reporting...Strategic Support Branch, that mirrored the capabilities of the CIA...CIA's black sites, that would provide the administration with even more flexibility and less oversight (See: Camp Nama ).
Somalia: Fierce Fighting in Kismayu
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-10 09:12:19 -0700 | travel-news
A fierce fighting between Alshabab militia and the Raskamboni brigade occurred last night at the surrounding of Kismayu airport and the Kismayu University. This happened when members of Alshabab started a hit and run fighting at the airport. The airport...
Briefing: The UNi¿½s integrated mission in Somalia
Source: IRIN
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-10 07:57:20 -0700 | political-news
The UN defines an integrated mission as one in which there is a shared vision among all the UN actors at country level. This strategic objective is the result of a deliberate effort by all elements of the UN system...
VIDEO: Somalia medics adjust to peacetime
Source: BBC
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-10 05:35:17 -0700 | health-news
From gun shot wounds to hernias 10 May 2013 Last updated at 08:01 ET Since the militant group Al- Shebab were pushed out of the Somali capital in 2011 the security situation has improved greatly. But their exit has also...
Kenya: British Pm Defends Uhuru UK Invitation
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-10 07:31:58 -0700 | political-news
The British government has defended meetings by its officials with President Uhuru Kenyatta despite his indictment by the International Criminal Court. Prime Minister David Cameron told the BBC that he met Uhuru because Kenya was playing a vital role fighting...
First look: Captain Phillips
Source: Wellington Dominion
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-09 20:05:04 -0700 | entertainment-news
On the boat is Tom Hanks and his company is ... a radar screen...Is the radar picking up a volleyball that is armed yet amnesic and about to try and kill Hanks?...What's more, it's ok, it turns out they were...
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