News Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
| 6 months ago
Residents of Somalia are experiencing near-daily atrocities, including rape, the shelling civilian areas and fighting that has forced more than 100,000 to flee their homes since May, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday. A surge of violence in...
News Source: AKI
| 6 months ago
Human rights group Amnesty International has called for urgent international action to protect journalists in Somalia after the murder of radio director Moqtar Mohamed Hirabe. Hirabe who worked for the influential Radio Shabelle was gunned down by...
News Source: Daily Nation
| 6 months ago
Somalia’s hard-line Islamist leader Sheik Hasan Dahir Aweys addresses a news conference in the capital Mogadishu on Monday. Mr Aweys, who is on US and UN terrorism lists, denied on Monday reports that he had been seriously wounded in fighting...
News Source: Gulf News
| 6 months ago
Shaikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said on Monday that the violence is "compulsory" to topple the administration. Aweys has the backing of hundreds of foreign fighters and he supports a strict interpretation of Islam such as stonings and other harsh...
News Source: BBC
| 6 months ago
No injuries at all," he told a news conference in Mogadishu, reported Reuters news agency. He dismissed weekend reports that he had been wounded as enemy propaganda. Mr Aweys, who is on US and UN terrorism lists, wants to oust the government and...