Hargeisa, 14 July 2009 - Eyewitnesses say two French journalists have been kidnapped from a hotel in the Somali capital.
Abdi Mohamed Ahmed, who owns a teashop in front of the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu, said about 10 gunmen disarmed...
Hargeisa, 12 July 2009- MINNEAPOLIS — The Carlson School of Management rises from the asphalt like a monument to capitalist ambition. Stock prices race across an electronic ticker near a sleek entrance and the atrium soars skyward, as if...
Addis Ababa, Jul 8, 2009 --- Somalia's prime minister signaled his regime is expanding the 4, 300 strong African Union troops by several thousand as more are expected to arrive in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
Abdirashid Ali did not say where...
Garowe, 5 July 2009 - The Somali regional state of Puntland has expelled two journalists yesterday after they accused them of entering the region illegally. The French national journalists have been detained and taken into a police station in...
Hargeisa, 3 July 2009 - Egyptian police shot dead two Somali migrants on Thursday who tried to slip across the Sinai desert border into Israel, security sources said, as violence against migrants picked up at the sensitive frontier.
The killings...
Mogadishu, Jul 3, 2009 - Sudanese president Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, acknowledged Sudan's support to the government of Somalia in its pursuit to realize stability, security and reconciliation in Somalia.
Al-Bashir delivered these remarks after met the President of Somalia
Sheikh Sharif...
Mogadishu,Jun 30 2009 -- Somalia's transitional leader, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed led a delegation of Ministers and Parliamentarians to the Libyan city of Sirte on Monday for the summit of the New Economic Partnership of Africa's Development.
The African Union...
Somali's Ambassador to Kenya Muhamad Ali Nur has said the situation in his country is "very severe" and has consequently appealed for help from the international community.
Speaking during an interview with Kenya's privately-owned KTN TV at the Somali embassy...
Hargeisa, 27 June 2009 (Somalilandcurrent) - As Somalia's transitional government fights for its existence and the region's governments debate how to respond, guest columnist Daniela Kroslak argues strongly against another foreign military incursion. Instead what is needed, she writes,...