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Security at border up as Somali Islamists advance
Mwingi :: Kenya | 1 day ago
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These are not terrorists but Hisbul Islam fighters who were escaping fighting in their country... We are secure,” Mr Iteere said. Al Shabaab fighters have been taking over towns near the border with Kenya from Kismayo, Bulo Haji, Qoqani, Dhobley, Afmadhow,...
Tags: al Shabaab, Al Shabaab, Hisbul Islam, Kenya, Somalia, Dhobley, Mwingi, Politics, Hizbul Islam, Kismayo, War in Somalia, Politics of Somalia, Gedo, War Conflict, Islamist groups
Somali militants recruit Ugandans
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 1 day ago
Credibility Al Shabaab to overthrow the Somali government, the African Union Mission in Somalia has said. The AU special representative for Somalia, Wafula Wamunyinyi, also listed Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, America, Tanzania, Kenya and Sudan as countries...
Tags: Somalia, Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda, Wafula Wamunyinyi, AMISOM, foreigners fighters, Mogadishu, Al-Qaeda, Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki, War in Somalia, Al-Shabaab, Year of birth missing, War Conflict, Islamist groups
Somalia: Inhuman Practices and Stonings Must End
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 4 days ago
Credibility Mr. Bari, the Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Somalia, noted that under Al Shabaab's interpretation of Sharia law, anyone who has ever been married -- even a divorcee -- and has an affair is liable to be found guilty of adultery...
Tags: Al Shabaab, Somalia, Mr. Bari, Mogadishu, Government of Somalia, timeline of the War in Somalia, Politics, Stoning, Transitional Federal Government, Politics of Somalia, Al-Shabaab, Law Crime
Hardline rebels take Somali border town near Kenya
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 6 days ago
Credibility Rebels suspected of links to al Qaeda seized a Somali town near the Kenyan border on Saturday, sending civilians fleeing toward the neighboring country. Al Shabaab insurgents, who Washington says are a proxy in Somalia for Osama bin Laden's group, drove...
Tags: Dhobley, Al Shabaab, Kenya, Somalia, Reuters, Mogadishu, timeline of the War in Somalia, War on Terrorism, Politics, Kismayo, War in Somalia, War Conflict
Somalia plane hijack bid foiled
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 1 month ago
Credibility 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 Somali...
Tags: Somalia, Al Shabaab
Somlian Women Whipped for Wearing Bra's
Muslim Shabaab religious enforcers in battered Somalia are finding time to whip Muslim women for wearing bras. They're being punished because the underwear accentuates breasts and in some cases gives a "fraudulent" impression to possible suitors, reports...
Tags: Somali, Sudan, Whipped, Islam, Muslim. Africa, Al Shabaab
Somalis 'made to view executions'
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 1 month ago
Credibility People in Merca said al-Shabaab militia patrolled the town with loudspeakers, demanding they attend the executions. The militants also ordered schools to close for the day as they were keen for children to watch the two men being shot dead by a firing...
Tags: Somalia, young men, al shabaab, firing squad, arab league, Mogadishu, Al-Shabaab
Somali Islamist rebels say port conflict resolved
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Two Islamist rebel groups in Somalia said Wednesday they have resolved a violent dispute over the control of a key port city in the south of the country. Militiamen from the Al-Qaeda-inspired Al-Shebaab group attacked Hizbul Islam forces in the port town...
Tags: Somalia, rebels group, al shabaab, Hizbul Islam, Mogadishu, Al-Shabaab
Somali Islamist rebels holding French hostages
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 4 months ago
Credibility One of Somalia's militant Islamist rebel groups was holding two French security men on Wednesday after receiving them from abductors linked to the government, police said. Gunmen from an Islamist faction within President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's security...
Tags: Somalia, rebels group, French, islamist rebels, al shabaab, Reuters, defense minister, Shabaab, Hizbul Islam
Somali Islamist insurgents behead 7 people
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 4 months ago
Credibility Somali Islamist insurgent fighters beheaded seven people accused of abandoning their religion and of espionage, residents said Friday, in the largest mass execution since the Islamists were chased from power two and a half years ago. The execution follows...
Tags: Somalia Behead, war crimes, somalis islamist, beheadings seven, Somalis, islamist insurgent, human rights, al Shabaab, Al Shabaab, mass execution
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