Suspected car bomb strikes near market in Somali capital: police
MOGADISHU, Somalia: A suspected car bomb killed at least three people when it exploded at a police checkpoint next to a market in the Somali...
Category : SOMALIA
UN envoy says Somali election ‘likely’ to take place in December
More than 14,000 Electoral College delegates are voting for the 275-member Lower House of parliament, and so far, fewer than half of the members have...
SPECIAL REPORT: How Somalia’s dark, secret torture dungeons kill civilians
Common torture methods in Somalia include beatings of detainees with rifle butts, rods and cables by Judy Maina, judy.maina@alleastafrica.com NAIROBI – A new report by the...
OPINION: SOMALIA’S 1992 THANKSGIVING: REFLECTIONS ON U.S. HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
BY ROBERT STRONG On the eve of Thanksgiving in 1992, then-U.S. president George H. W. Bush, in his final weeks in office, approved a major...
AU military officers meet in Somalia over counter-terrorism strategy
MOGADISHU, Nov. 21 — Senior military commanders from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) started a meeting in Mogadishu on Monday to review and...
Gun vs poll: Somali minister involved in gun fight over poll dispute
by Ahmed Mohamed MOGADISHU – In an attempt to evade an apparent loss of a parliamentary seat race to his rival candidate, Somali sports minister Mohamed...
Somalia election: AMISOM needs 4,000 troops
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has said it will require at least 4,000 more troops from African countries in order to further liberate...
Two police officers killed in Somali capital explosion
At least two police officers were killed and two others injured in a bomb explosion at a checkpoint in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday....
African Union-backed Amisom troops to start exiting Somalia in 2018
The African Union troops serving in Somalia will leave the country starting in 2018. The AU mission has trained at least 20,000 Somali soldiers ahead...
Air Djibouti resumes flights to Somalia
by Abdourahman Sahal, abdourahman.sahal@alleastafrica.com DJIBOUTI – The first flight of the Djibouti national carrier “Air Djibouti” landed at the Aden Abdulle International Airport in Mogadishu...
