AU, UN at odds over key Mogadishu road closure plan
By Jeff Mwaura, jeff@alleastafrica.com NAIROBI – United Nations and African Union officials were deadlocked over a UN proposal to shut down a key road leading to
Category : SOMALIA
25 dead as truck bomber attacks hotel in Mogadishu
NAIROBI– At least 25 people have been killed by a truck bomb targeting a hotel near Somali presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu Tuesday, police
Kenya arrests ISIS-linked Somali students in Malindi raid
By Jeff Mwaura NAIROBI – Police in the Kenyan resort town of Malindi have arrested two students linked to the so-called Islamic State group who
Somalia’s forgotten institutions
By Mohamed Moalimuu The long civil war in Somalia caused extensive damage in the capital Mogadishu. Private and public buildings were completely ruined. Since Al
Somalia, Kenya: neighbors, enemy actors
By Jeff Mwaura NAIROBI – At Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta airport, an immigration officer shoves his hand into a Somali legislator’s chest, telling him to either
At Somali hospital, alcohol smell overshadows failed bomber’s blood stench
By Jeff Mwaura, jeff@alleastafrica.com NAIROBI – The strong alcohol smell consumes a hospital ward in the Somali capital where a suicide car bomber captured after
Somali officials implicated in $530,000 central bank theft
By Judy Maina NAIROBI – The theft of $530,000 from Somalia’s central bank reserves by a teller occurred with the connivance of some officials in