Somalia’s Al-shabaab fighters banned several aid groups working in famine-hit areas under their control. According to witnesses the militants stormed aid offices in Beledweyne and Baidoa towns in the southern part of Somalia In a statement posted on website amiirnur Al-shabaab said some of the banned groups had worked with churches to convert young, Muslim […]
The top Somali leaders commit to end child soldiers
The Special Representative of the Secretary- General of United Nations Radhika Coomaraswamy secured from top officials of the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) a process to end the use of children or their recruitment in the country’s armed forces. Ms. Coomaraswamy met the President and the Prime Minister during her visit in the […]
Eight people were killed in Mogadishu by a roadside explosive device
At least seven people were killed and four injured on Tuesday afternoon in Wadajir district, located south west of the capital Mogadishu. The main bases for 9,000 African Union Force and International airport are in the area and it is known as the safest neighborhood in the capital. "The bomb went off and […]
Somalia’s Shabaab declare to defeat Ethiopian forces
Somalia’s militant Al-shabaab warned Ethiopian troops on Sunday that they would break the necks of their soldiers if they remain inside Somalia. This came after several hundred Ethiopian soldiers crossed into the war- country. "Soldiers of our enemy, the black colonialists of Ethiopia, made some movements into our region on Saturday, but they do not […]
Ethiopian troops cross into Somalia: witnesses
Several hundred Ethiopian soldiers crossed on Saturday into southern and central Somalia, local elders said, but Addis Ababa dismissed the reports as"absolutely not true." "There are several hundred Ethiopian troops here in lorries and some armored vehicles too," said elder Abdi Ibrahim Warsame, speaking by telephone from Gurel town, in Somalia’s central Galgudud […]
Ethiopia may join the war game in Somalia conflict
East African countries are considering having Ethiopian military join the conflict in Somalia tocreate a third front against Al-shabaab insurgents. The African Union peacekeepers are fighting in Mogadishu, the Kenyan troops in the South of the country and now the Ethiopian soldiers returning to Somalia after they left in 2008, but the case is […]