Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 5:11 pm
Press Release: US State Department
Attack On Diplomatic Residences In Somalia
Press Statement
Jen Psaki
Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attack on the Turkish diplomatic residences in Mogadishu, Somalia. We extend...
The world makes much ado of people and organizations – and even governments – assisting militant, fringe organizations engaged in nefarious schemes against the larger humanity. These include ter rorists, pirates, drug dealers, and human traffickers. Among these the...
By Buri M. Hamza
Sunday, July 28, 2013
In March 2010 - then a Minister in the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia – I was chosen by the Prime Minister to present to the Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council...
MOGADISHU (AFP) – At least one person was killed Saturday when a car bomb exploded in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the latest in a string of attacks, a local official said.
The car, a government vehicle, exploded near the Sanca intersection...
MOGADISHU (AFP) – At least one person was killed and several others were wounded Wednesday when a car bomb exploded in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the latest in a string of attacks, police said.
The blast targeted a car belonging to...
AAIB Insurance has become the first insurance broker to receive a licence to trade in Somalia.
The company received its 'Special Permit And Service Certificate Of Registration As A Business' from the Somali Ministry of Commerce and Industry in June.
The...
Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost two years ago in Kenya and then held in Somalia have been freed, their employer Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday.
Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, 40 and 30 respectively at the time of...
Nairobi, July 18, 2013-Two Somali journalists were wounded, one critically, when they came under fire on Wednesday while covering the aftermath of a landmine explosion in the southern port city of Kismayo, according to news reports and local journalists....
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has dropped significantly for the first time since 2006 due to preventive measures deployed by the foreign warships to thwart such attacks, a global maritime body said.
The report by International Chamber Commerce (ICC)...
Western commercial oil exploration in disputed areas of Somalia and discrepancies over which authorities can issue licenses to companies could spark further conflict in the African nation, U.N. monitors warned in a confidential report.
In the U.N. Monitoring Group's latest...