Somalia: Somali President Makes First Visit to Garowe
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-28 21:39:12 -0700 | political-news
Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrived in Garowe on Sunday (April 28th) to discuss development and security co-operation, his first visit to the Puntland region since he took office in September, Somalia's RBC Radio reported. Puntland regional President Abdirahman Mohamed...
Kenya: Arrests, Arraignments Continue in Garissa
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-28 21:11:29 -0700 | travel-news
Several hundred people have been arrested since a security crackdown began in Garissa over a week ago, AFP reported Friday (April 26th). The crackdown follows a series of attacks culminating April 18th in an attack by gunmen on a restaurant...
State officers on spotlight over links with Al-Shabab
Source: Daily Nation
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-28 13:21:33 -0700 | political-news
Rating In Summary So far the head of criminal investigations in Garissa has been sent home and faces charges in court once investigations have been completed. A senior security official who spoke to the Nation on condition of anonymity revealed...
Somalia: President Hassan Meets With President Kenyatta in Mombasa
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-28 00:38:09 -0700 | political-news
Mogadishu, Somalia Somali Federal Government (SFG) President Hassan Sheikh Mohamed met with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in his brief visit to Mombasa, Kenya on Saturday, Garowe Online reports. Foreign Affairs Minister Fowzia Haji Yusuf Adam and State Minister of the...
Poverty fuels human trafficking in Kenya
Source: Daily Nation
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-27 12:53:17 -0700 | political-news
Rating In Summary The crime is prevalent in all regions of the country, but poor parents are known to coerce their children into prostitution. The situation is further exacerbated in northern Kenya by the frequent drought that increases the presence...
Celebrating Erik Prince's Private Somali Army With The Project
Source: Gawker
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-26 13:54:55 -0700 | travel-news
Army operation fictionalized in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down ), the United States has avoided a heavy military presence in Somalia. Instead, three successive administrations have preferred to use the CIA and the military's Special Operations Command to fund...
American jihadist Omar Hammami live tweets he's 'just been shot' in Somalia
Source: Mail Online UK
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-26 10:32:28 -0700 | travel-news
26 April 2013 An American jihadi in Somalia has tweeted a picture of himself with a bloody neck wound he claims he received during a failed assassination attempt...He posted four pictures, one of which shows his face with blood on...
Somalia still has serious issues, U.N. told
Source: United Press International
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-26 08:35:50 -0700 | travel-news
Somalia isn't yet at a place where it sees a political and national security future that's free of problems, the Somali ambassador to the United Nations said. British Foreign Secretary William Hague visited Mogadishu this week to open the British...
Building health systems from scratch in Somalia
Source: IRIN
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-26 08:21:33 -0700 | health-news
Lul Mohamed, director of the paediatric ward at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, treated five children after two bomb attacks killed 30 people on 14 April. "And they were shooting last night. One died, a bullet in his...
No box office for Chinese documentaries in Q1
Source: Chinadaily
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-26 01:01:58 -0700 | business-news
Chinese documentaries took in nothing at the box office in the first quarter of 2013, according to an industry report. The report was released on Thursday by the China Documentary Research Center of the Communication University of China. Liu Ke,...
Weekend pay TV: April 27
Source: The Age
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-26 00:12:35 -0700 | sports-news
Life After Life, National Geographic, 8.30pm Like most mystery-mongering shows, Paranatural affects a sceptical approach...Sure, this episode about near-death experiences gives a neurologist the chance to say he thinks the bright lights, long tunnels and visions of angels are ''hallucinations...
Africa: AU Chairperson's Courtesy Call On President Uhuru Kenyatta
Source: All Africa
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-25 23:44:51 -0700 | political-news
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma is undertaking a working visit to Kenya during which she will meet and engage with President Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya's 4th President. After her brief meeting during his inauguration, Dr....
Africa: Al-Shabaab in Somalia: the History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005 - 2012
Source: All Africa
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-25 23:57:55 -0700 | political-news
Norway, clearly had unprecedented access to the movement over years of conducting research in Somalia. The attendant dangers of associated with a westerner seeking to carry out such work in one of the world's most dangers country's makes this study...
Challenges Still Facing Somalia, a UN Mission Is Needed
Source: Scoop
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-25 19:54:00 -0700 | travel-news
The new Mission represents a fresh start for the UN in Somalia and a renewed commitment by the Council to support Somali-owned peacebuilding, Jeffrey Feltman, Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs, told the 15-member body. He said that the Federal Government,...
Global Vaccine Summit to Boost Efforts to Eliminate Polio
Source: Scoop
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-04-26 05:24:14 -0700 | health-news
Polio eradication efforts are the focus of the United Nations-backed Global Vaccine Summit which also aims to protect millions of children from diseases like measles and tetanus through inoculations. Immunization is one of the best and most cost-effective ways to...
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