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Somali pirates hijack Iranian vessel, hold crew
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 2 days ago
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Deputy Managing Director for Maritime Affairs Saeed Izadian said an Iranian fishing vessel was attacked in free waters by Somali pirates on Sunday. "A number of armed men off the coast of Somalia hijacked this Iranian vessel," Izadian said Tuesday. The...
Tags: pirates hijacked, Somalia, Mogadishu, Piracy, Piracy in Somalia, Politics, MV Sirius Star, Gulf of Aden, October 28 2007 incident off Somalia
The Rod Liddle affair
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 2 days ago
Credibility Here's Spectator editor Fraser Nelson's defence of his errant blogger: The Spectator stands up for the right to offend; our blogs often say things that people find offensive but that's part of our right of free expression...It's a significant part of...
Tags: Rod Liddle, Somalia, Mogadishu, Blogger, The Spectator, Liddle, Alex Massie, Blog
Ethiopian rebels condemn Somalia attack
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | 3 days ago
Credibility In a statement sent to Sudan Tribune the group said "we strongly condemn the cowardly bombing at a medical students’ graduation ceremony in Mogadishu". "This attack against medical graduates, parents, instructors and government officials is nothing less...
Tags: Ogaden National Liberation Front, rebels group, Mogadishu, ONLF, Somalia, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Insurgency in Ogaden, Politics, Somali Region, Ogaden, Ethiopian crackdown in Ogaden, War Conflict
Deadly blast at a Somali graduation
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 3 days ago
Credibility Attending the graduation of doctors, engineers and professors in Mogadishu last Thursday, I was relieved to cover a positive Somalia story for a change. War is all we can usually report from here, where fighting has killed at least 19,000 civilians since...
Tags: Mogadishu, Somalia, Horn of Africa, Health Medical Pharma, Somali people, Al-Shabaab, Mￃﾩdecins Sans Frontiￃﾨres, Islamist groups, Benadir
SOMALIA: Rise in mental health disorders worries Somaliland officials
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 3 days ago
Credibility Health officials in Somalia's self-declared independent region of Somaliland have expressed concern over a rise in mental illness, which they attribute to post-war trauma, joblessness, drug abuse and khat use. "Mental health problems have increased in...
Tags: Union of Somaliland Journalists, Mustafe Hussein Hirsi, mental health, mental disorder, mental sickness, group hospitals, Hargeisa Group Hospital, Somalia, Mogadishu, Health Medical Pharma, Psychiatric hospital, Hargeisa, Social Issues, Somaliland, Geography of Somalia, Gulf of Aden, Illness, Divided regions
YEMEN: Somali refugees struggle in parched Aden slum
Aden :: Yemen | 3 days ago
Credibility Amina’s uncle, a taxi driver, is the only other income earner in the family. Their house has no public water supply. In the early 1990s, Yemeni returnees from Somalia and Somali nationals fleeing conflict began to settle in Basateen...Deputy Director-General...
Tags: Aden city, Basateen, Yemen Times, UNHCR, water supply, Yemeni, Yemen, Aden, 'Adan Governorate, Red Sea, Social Issues, Gulf of Aden, Least Developed Countries, Arab League member states, Somalia
Somalia pirates seize supertanker
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 3 days ago
Credibility The Greek-owned supertanker Maran Centaurus was seized by pirates off Somalia while heading to the U.S., as attackers venture ever farther from shore to hijack merchant ships. It's the second time Somali pirates have seized an oil supertanker, with the...
Tags: Somalia, Somali Basin, Gulf of Aden, European Union, French Navy, naval patrols, U.S. Congressional Research Service, Mogadishu, MV Faina, Piracy, Piracy in Somalia, MV Sirius Star, October 28 2007 incident off Somalia
Journalists want recognition for savior
Calgary :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility Friends of a Somali instrumental in the release of a kidnapped Canadian freelance journalist and her Australian companion say he deserves recognition. Video journalist Ahmed Muhammed allegedly made first contact with the kidnappers. He also possibly put...
Tags: freelance journalists, Amanda Lindhout, Canada, Somalia, Calgary, Somali people, Politics, Mogadishu, Nairobi, Foreign hostages in Somalia, Business Finance, Surnames, Kidnapping, Hostage taking, Privacy, Geddes
Way back when: Today in history
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 3 days ago
Credibility Brown died in the Emergency Hospital in Washington, D.C., four days later. Sirens wailed, air wardens rushed from door to door to darken lights in their areas and cars with headlights turned off crashed into each other as San Francisco was partially blacked...
Tags: Somalia, Mogadishu, Pearl Harbor, Hickam Air Force Base, Honolulu County Hawaii, Mikhail Gorbachev, Attack on Pearl Harbor
Latest Deadly Attack In Somali Capital
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 4 days ago
Credibility This attack could only strengthen the determination of the Somali Government and people and their partners to persist in their efforts to fight terrorism,” Mr. Ban said in a statement issued by his spokesperson...The Security Council is meeting this afternoon...
Tags: Somalia, Mogadishu, Diplomatic and humanitarian efforts in the Somali Civil War, Somali people, Somali Civil War, Politics, Warlordism, Foreign relations of Somalia, Intergovernmental Authority on Development, War Conflict
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