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 2013-05-14 12:14:59 -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...
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....
MRC deny working with Al-Shabaab
Source: Daily Nation
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2013-03-31 13:09:50 -0700 | disasters-news
The Mombasa Republican Council on Sunday denied it was associated with the Somali-based terror group, Al-Shabaab. Maintaining that it was a legal group according to a High Court verdict last year, MRC criticised Coast provincial commissioner Samuel Kilele for giving...
Somalia: Mortar Attack At Presidential Palace, Kills Six IDPs
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2012-06-01 18:28:19 -0700 | travel-news
Sa'id Shire Warsame, a cameraman for Shabelle Media who lives near the hilltop palace, known as Villa Somalia says at least seven mortars have been fired overnight at the palace, but missed their target and slammed into a large IDP...
'Masked men' kill Somali reporter
Source: BBC
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2012-05-05 12:30:45 -0700 | political-news
Colleagues of Ali Ahmed Abdi said he was shot in the head by masked men as he walked home in the north-central town of Galkayo. Somalia has not had a functioning central government for more than 20 years and has...
Somalia: Airstrike Targets Al Shabaab
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2012-05-02 19:32:15 -0700 | travel-news
Among the dead were two leading foreign Jihadists and four of their Somali comrades. The strike comes a day after international leaders met in London to discuss boosting efforts against instability in Somalia. The attack was launched against the Islamist...
Al-Shabaab tweets photos showing mujahideen pledging allegiance to al-Qaeda
Source: Washington Post
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2012-04-15 06:55:05 -0700 | political-news
Nervous al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab get hitched, read an Asia Times headline . A desperate joining of hands to prop up the weakening groups, wrote the Associated Press ...And yet both groups mantain a happy outward appearance about the decision. Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri last...
Poke in the eye for pirates after Somalians take on Spanish warship and lose
Source: Mail Online UK
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2012-03-13 20:31:04 -0700 | political-news
Patino, which is serving as the flagship for the European Union's fleet of ships. The ship's crew immediately returned fire, forcing the pirates off the hull they were attempting to climb and back into their tiny boat. Patino, the pirates...
Médecins sans Frontières workers shot dead in Somalia
Source: The Observer
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2012-03-01 07:02:56 -0800 | political-news
Associated Press The Medecins sans Frontieres compound in Mogadishu, Somalia. Photograph: Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP Medecins sans Frontieres says that two of its employees in Mogadishu, Somalia 's capital a Belgian and an Indonesian have been killed in gunfire that occurred...
Aid Worker Killed in Mogadishu, Somalia
Source: Newyork Times
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2012-03-01 01:58:55 -0800 | travel-news
Somalia A foreign aid worker was shot dead and another was wounded by a former colleague at their office here in the capital on Thursday, according to officials and witnesses, adding to a series of attacks on humanitarian workers and...
Somalia: Gunmen Kill WFP Workers in Central Somalia
Source: Africa Headlines
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2012-02-23 11:14:07 -0800 | travel-news
Gunmen Kill WFP Workers in Central Somalia 23 December 2011 Mataban Unidentified armed men have on Friday shot and killed three humanitarian aid workers serving with the world food program WFP in Mataban town of central Somalia's region of Hiran,...
11 Die in Bomb Blast in Somali Capital Mogadishu
Source: Fox News
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated 2012-01-29 17:24:49 -0800 | travel-news
A government official says a roadside bomb in the Somali capital of Mogadishu has killed 11 civilians and wounded many others. Local district commissioner Ahmed Addow says the bomb exploded in Mogadishu's Medina neighborhood. The Medina neighborhood is where the...
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