President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed

NAIROBI (AlertNet) - Half a million people have fled war in Somalia this year, with hundreds dying on a perilous crossing across the Gulf of Eden to Yemen, the UN refugee agency has said. The numbers of refugees this year are the highest since the ...  

The vessel and its 28-man crew from Greece, the Philippines, Ukraine and Romania, were captured in the Somali Basin about 600 nautical miles northeast of the Seychelles, EU Navfor said. Maran Centaurus is owned by Anangel Shipping Enterprises SA ...  

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Crews on oil tankers aren't allowed to smoke above deck, much less carry guns, for fear of igniting the ship's payload. That's one of the main reasons Somali pirates met little resistance when they hijacked a U.S.-bound supertanker ...  

Waaaacists!...... MOGADISHU, Somalia — The recruits gather in scorching desert hideouts in Somalia, use portraits of President Barack Obama for target practice, learn how to make and detonate bombs, and vow allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Training camps in the lawless nation of Somalia are attracting hundreds of foreigners, including Americans, and Somalis recruited by a local insurgent group linked to al-Qaida, according to local and U.S...  

(RTTNews) - Pirates seized a large Greek-flagged cargo ship in the Indian Ocean Sunday while carrying crude oil from the Gulf to the US port of New Orleans. Nine Somali pirates attacked the super oil-tanker 'Maran Centaurus' with small arms 750 ...  

Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan early on Thursday flew out of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in a chartered plane, Mohamed Abdullahi said. Journalists waiting at Mogadishu airport were not able to speak to Lindhout and Brennan ...  

African Union peacekeepers have been operating in Somalia without receiving their salaries since May, an AU envoy says. Outgoing AU special envoy to Somalia Nicholas Bwakira said the donors have only paid 30 percent of the funds they pledged in ...  

A Canadian and Australian journalist were freed on Wednesday after more than a year in captivity, Somali officials said. Police spokesman Col. Abdullahi Hassan Barise said Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan are at a Mogadishu hotel with Somali lawmaker Botan Isse Alin. Barise and Alin declined to say if ransom was paid for their release.  

Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and his Canadian colleague have left Somalia and flown to Kenya after more than a year in captivity, Somalia's national security minister says. Mohamed Abdullahi said Brennan and Canadian journalist Amanda ...  

CBC.caAustralian journalist freed in SomaliaABC OnlinePhotojournalist Nigel Brennan and his companion, Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, were captured by militants in Somalia in August last year. Reports indicate that both were handed over to Somali ...Somalia: 2 kidnapped journalists freedThe Associated PressTwo kidnapped journalists are freed in SomaliaBBC NewsAussie journalist Nigel Brennan freed by Somali kidnappersHerald SunNEWS.com.au...  

As a mother and her son, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, walked through Somalia's capital last September, she saw a bullet tear through her 8-year-old's cheekbones, nose and mouth. Ahmed is struggling to heal. His is a lost face of Somalia's war. (Nov. 23)  

(Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya) For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mortar shells that whizz daily through Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of Somalia. The one that finally drove him from Somalia tore though his family's house and ripped a cousin to bits, splattering Ahmed with blood and body parts. read more  

In the South Galcayo hospital, 144 Somali MSF staff are working to keep surgical activities running in an insecure area where violent clashes occurs often. In the central Somali city of Galkayo, Dr. Abdullahi Adan Mohamoud is working for Doctors ...  

The president of Somalia's Puntland State government has held talks with Somalia’s Prime Minster Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, Somali lawmakers and foreign envoys in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The talks were based on the recent disagreement between ...  

AFPPirates hijack tanker off Somali coastCNN International(CNN) -- Pirates off Somalia's coast have hijacked a chemical tanker with a North Korean crew, European naval forces reported. The MV Theresa VIII, ...Pirates Hijack Tanker by Somalia CoastecPulseA chemical tanker with a crew of 28 North Koreans has been hijacked by pirates ...BBC NewsUN chief says international efforts curbing piracy off SomaliaRIA Novostiafrol News -Afrik.com...