President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed

(CNN) -- Suspected Islamic insurgents fired mortar rounds at a plane carrying Somalia's transitional president, but no one -- including Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed -- was harmed, a presidential spokesman said. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, pictured late last month during a visit to France. The attack happened while the plane was about to take off from Mogadishu's airport Sunday around 11 a.m. local time, spokesman Hussien Mohammed Huubsireb said."Al-Shaabab has... Read Full Story

By Mark Tran, The Guardian, London. The US "war on terror" has backfired, strengthening extremists in Afghanistan and Somalia and turning them into legitimate political actors in the eyes of their local populations, a thinktank said today.The Senlis Council, which has strongly criticised US policy in Afghanistan in the past, is particularly scathing of the Bush administration's "abject policy failures" in Somalia.It said air strikes, support for Ethiopian troops that attacked Somalia last... Read Full Story

By Nour Ali “Knowledge and wisdom are really the privilege of a faithful Muslim. If you have lost them, get them back even though you may have to get them from the apostates.” “That knowledge which remains only on your tongue is very superficial. The intrinsic value of knowledge is that you act upon it.” I am writing this article to express my opinion against the worst criminal self interest TFG Gov. Abdullahi Yusuf and Ghedi are genies among us or dumb and dumber. Somalia known as a... Read Full Story

I'm surprised by the fact that the Bush Administration concedes that its policy on Somalia is failing. The Bush Administration now acknowledges that its approach to Somalia by suppoting Ethiopia to oust the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) was a miscaculation. In my opinion, this has come as a confession that the foreign policy of Mr. Bush is not based on facts but on fairy tales as far the war on terror is concerned. Bellow is an article on the situation by the East African Standard Newspaper... Read Full Story

This is our group blog, which is unique because any Zimbio member can post an entry to it. Some members blog about recent news and trends related to the portal topic, others recount relevant personal stories. You can also comment on and rate existing blog entries, to voice your opinion and to help the community identify which members and entries on the portal are must-reads. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this portal? Well, then put on your journalist's cap... Read Full Story