Somaliland FM writes to Ban Ki Moon of the UN in reaction to comments by UN Deputy Chief
Posted by: - Medeshi
Hargeysa :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-23 21:11:08 -0700 | disasters-news
(Medeshi)- Somaliland Foreign Minister wrote the attached letter on May 15, 2013 to the United Nations Secretary general in response tocomments by the UN Deputy Chief which contained a demand for support to Somalia government to assert its authority over...
Why is Egypt supplying heavy weapons to Somalia ?
Posted by: - Medeshi
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-23 21:11:21 -0700 | disasters-news
(Medeshi)- The main reason could be because Egypt wants to use Somalia as a proxy against Ethiopia for the sake of Nile waters . Egypt had used Somalia as a proxy against Ethiopia for decades. Egypt supplied Somalia with heavy...
Commentary : Somaliland needs to be prepared to thwart new threats from Somalia
Posted by: - Medeshi
Hargeysa :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-24 19:48:48 -0700 | disasters-news
(Medeshi)- Somali president has recently said in a news conference coinciding with Somaliland 22nd independence day that "Somalia's unity is sacred and that Somaliland should swallow the idea of secession". This rings alarm bells specially at this time when the...
Somalia's struggle with rape
Source: CNN
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-17 10:26:14 -0700 | disasters-news
Ranging in age from 6 to 11, these girls all have one thing in common: They have either been raped or suffered through the rape of a loved one...The baby of the class, she can't quite keep up with the...
Man defined as top US pirate catch appeals in Va.
Source: SF Gate
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-24 04:14:32 -0700 | disasters-news
Va. (AP) A federal appeals court in Virginia is weighing the conviction of a Somali man called the biggest U.S. catch in the international war on piracy in waters off Africa...Circuit Court of Appeals judges engaged in a lively back-and-fourth...
15 dead, scores wounded by suicide bomber in Mogadishu
Source: Daily Nation
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-05 04:32:46 -0700 | disasters-news
Rating In Summary Km4 Roundabout is a busy area that unites several roads as well as being stopover for city buses. At least 15 people died when a vehicle assumed to have been packed with explosives exploded on Sunday at...
Car bomb in Somali capital kills 8 people, local official says
Posted by: shahzad313
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-24 01:49:00 -0700 | disasters-news
REPORT BY: SHAHZAD DATE: MAY05-2013 A car bomb that targeted government vehicles in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Sunday killed eight people and wounded five, said Abdi Mohamud, a local district chairman. There was no immediate claim of responsibility...
Famine causes about 260 000 deaths in Somalia
Posted by: rawaha
Hurdiyo :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-24 05:45:04 -0700 | disasters-news
around 260,000 Somalis starved October 2010 until April 2012, says a report today from the joined countries Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO). The famine and critical nourishment insecurity initiated these killings in Somalia, half of them young kids under...
The famine killed 258,000 Somalis including children in 19 months
Posted by: rsa76
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-05-24 05:53:01 -0700 | disasters-news
The food crisis in Somalia between October 2010 and April 2012 caused the death of about 260,000 people, half of whom are children under five years, according to a report by the UN Food published on Thursday . Nearly 260,000...
Somalia: Journalist Living and Working On the Edge
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-29 01:20:39 -0700 | disasters-news
Mogadishu When journalist Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh was shot by unknown assailants outside his home in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Apr. 22, his name was added to a list of four journalists who have been killed in this Horn of...
In Story About Recent Rape, WashPost Buries Fact That Alleged Perpetrator Is Illegal Immigrant
Source: Newsbusters
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-16 10:28:47 -0700 | disasters-news
In her 19-paragraph Metro section front-pager, "D.C. cab ride ends in rape of woman, police say," Washington Post reporter Suzy Khimm waited until the very last paragraph to mention that suspect Mohammed Suleiman Roble is in the United States illegally....
Somalia: Attack court, 19 people died.
Posted by: lethibichlan
Kaambooni :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-18 12:10:08 -0700 | disasters-news
An attack with bombs and guns has killed at least 19 people in the Somali capital Mogadishu. According to the Somali government, nine gunmen involved attacks had been killed, British Television quoted government officials said six attackers wearing bombs detonated...
Nine Somali suicide commandos blow up 34 in Mogadishu
Posted by: prabirghose
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-18 09:22:06 -0700 | disasters-news
It was mayhem in a court complex in Mogadishu when a team of nine suicide commandos, owing allegiance to the al-Qaida linked al-Shabab militant group killed at least 34 dead – the commandos either blew themselves up or sprayed gunfire....
At least 5 killed in suicide attack in Somalia.
Posted by: Vicky247
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-17 03:57:23 -0700 | disasters-news
At least 5 folks died in a very suicide attack on Sunday morning for allegedly control against a court Shebab insurgents from national capital, said political candidate of the police. "So much we've 5 killed, together with civilians. Balance may...
Rise of the Predators: Targeted Killing Comes to Define War on Terror
Source: The New York Times
Baraawe :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-08 02:00:44 -0700 | disasters-news
Brennan, now C.I.A. director, said last year the preference was to use lethal force only when capture was not feasible. Mr. Abu Ghaith's case he awaits a federal criminal trial in New York is a rare illustration of what Obama...
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