The mother of a 20-year-old Somali man missing from Minneapolis says her son has been killed in Somalia. Abayte Ahmed (ah-BYE'-tee ah-med) said Sunday through an interpreter that she and her husband identified their son, Jamal Bana (BAH'-nuh), in a photo showing a dead body in Somalia. Bana's father saw the photo Saturday while viewing online news. Somali activists believe more than a dozen young men have gone missing from the Minneapolis area during the last couple years — recruited, they... Read Full Story
(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 actually tried to harm to... Read Full Story
FOX NEWS U.S. Navy destroyer USS Howard, left, and the Russian missile frigate Neustrashimy responded to the Somalia coast in response to a pirate hijacking. MOGADISHU, Somalia — A group of Somali pirates who have hijacked a tanker loaded with military supplies say they will fight to the death before giving in to Russian and U.S. authorities. The superpowers have been unable to end the standoff and remain concerned that the ship's cargo of 33 tanks and other weapons could fall into enemy... Read Full Story
The Russian warship Neustrashimy may use force against pirates who seized a Ukrainian ship off the Somali coast last week, a senior Navy official said Wednesday. Earlier Wednesday, Somali Ambassador to Russia Mohamed Handule said his country's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed had authorized Russia's military to fight pirates off Somalia's coast and on land. "This permission allows the warship to use the whole range of the weapons on board," the Navy official said. "We are not excluding a... Read Full Story
American Embassy in Kenya commemorates the Somali Flag A well organized ceremony organized by the American Embassy in Kenya to commemorate the Somali Flag day which is the 12th of October has taken place inside the residence Bob Patterson the acting chairman of the American Affairs in Somal The Somali Flag commemoration day was attended by highly esteemed officials, from the international community specially the United Nations special representative for Somali... Read Full Story
The local media have been lately reporting different stories on the whereabouts of the commander of Somali national Force General Yusuf Hussein Dhumal, some said that he has passed way in the recent clashes between the government forces and its Islamists rivals while some said that he is bed driven, fortunately exclusive our Mogadishu correspondent had a one on one exclusive interview with the general on Monday. The general was on Monday morning standing in front of a parade of Somali army... Read Full Story
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia's president will resign Monday to try to end government infighting before the country's Ethiopian allies pull out of the war-ravaged nation, a senior ally said Sunday in the latest in a series of conflicting statements on the leader's future.
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President Abdullahi Yusuf will address a special session of the country's parliament to announce his retirement from politics, said... Read Full Story
Somalia's former Prime Minister Mohamed Mohamud Guled addresses the media on arrival at the Mogadishu airport, December 24, 2008. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf has decided to resign, his spokesman said on Wednesday, in a move the African Union said would be positive for the peace process in the Horn of Africa nation. Yusuf has been accused by donor countries and regional governments of being an obstacle to U.N.-hosted peace talks. His rift with Prime... Read Full Story
For those who only know about Somalia in terms of either the book or film Black Hawk Down , or because of the recent coverage of piracy, please find below, from "Humanitarian Heads Up" by Reuters Alertnet, some further context and background on the Somalian crisis. There is a lot more to this than just the piracy. Piracy comes from more systemic problems within the country. Again, no issue comes from within a vacuum. There are long term histories which the international community chooses to... Read Full Story
Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Saturday was elected Somalia's president, leaving him in charge of a fragile peace process aimed at ending 18 years of civil conflict. The young cleric secured a comfortable victory during a vote by parliament in neighbouring Djibouti, only days after the Ethiopian troops who sent him into exile two years ago completed their pullout from Somalia. He defeated Maslah Mohamed Siad Barre, a general and the son of a former president, in the second... Read Full Story
