A rapist was arrested after his 89-year-old victim scratched his face for DNA in a trick she learned from watching CSI, a British court has heard.
Bouncer Mauro Lopes, 31, was yesterday jailed for nine years for raping the woman...
Garowe, 20 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- A Chinese cyclist has been forced to put the brakes on a 12-year world tour, after officials in Somalia deported him for not having the right documents.
Lee Yue Zhong, who says...
Mogadishu, Jul 20 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula has said his country is arranging camps where Transitional Federal Government of Somalia forces will be trained.
This was during a meeting with Western officials who are...
A teenage boy has fooled British airline and airport executives into believing he was a tycoon who owned a fleet of jets.
The 17-year-old boy, from Yorkshire, claimed he was in his 20s and used the pseudonym...
Nairobi, Jul 20 2009 (Somalilandpress) - A string of abductions of foreigners in Somalia have thrown the international spotlight on kidnapping in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.
Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke told Reuters on Sunday that the...
ISSA Farah is a government minister who carries a pistol in his belt.
Melbourne, 20 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- After 25 years as a refugee in Melbourne, where he earned a university degree from La Trobe and worked in...
The Arab League secretary general has held a meeting with various
officials to discuss the situation in Somalia.
The Arab League Secretary General, Amir Musa has held separate
meetings with various African officials among them Kenya's Vice
President, Kalonzo Musyoka and Ethiopia's Foreign...
Berbera, 19 Jul 2009 -- Somaliland authorities arrested an MP from Somalia's transitional federal parliament on orders from Somaliland police Commissioner, Mr Mohamed Saqadi Dubad on Saturday.
Mr Abdalla Ali Ahmed, who hails from Somaliland, was also the former mayor...
Mogadishu, 19 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Two French security advisers seized in Somalia will be tried under Sharia law, an official from their captors, the Islamic al-Shabab militia, says.
The unnamed spokesman said they would be tried for spying and...
Nouakchott, 18 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Shooting has broken out in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott between "armed men" and police, hours before a presidential election was to begin, security sources say.
Mauritanians will be voting on Saturday in a presidential...