News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 23 days ago
Sacdiyo Sheeq used to love listening to Bollywood movie songs on her mobile telephone. But since hardline al Shabaab insurgents seized the southern Somali port of Kismayu, the 25-year-old's life has changed. "Al Shabaab wants our ringtones to be...
News Source: Press TV
| 24 days ago
The two Somali gunmen ordered the pilot to divert the plane, owned by Daallo Airlines, to land in the northern coastal town of Las Qorey, prompting the 30 passengers to desperately fight back and overpower the gunmen, according to Garowe online, a...
News Source: Epoch Times
| 24 days ago
Somalia's hardline al Shabaab insurgents closed three grassroots women's organisations in the rebel-held town of Balad Hawa on Monday to stop women from going to work, a rebel leader said. The group wants to impose its own version of Islamic law on...
News Source: BBC
| 24 days ago
Two men armed with pistols boarded the plane bound for Djibouti at an airport in Bossaso, in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland. Half-way through the flight the plane turned back to Bossaso. Puntland Security Minister Mohammed Said Samata said...
News Source: The Boston Globe
| 24 days ago
Somalia— A Somali airline official says two men have failed in an attempt to hijack an airplane. Diallo Airlines marketing manager Ahmed Yare says the men drew guns on Monday's flight. He says some of the 30 passengers thwarted the hijackers by...