President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed

Participants at tomorrow's ICG gathering in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, are also expected to discuss the implementation of the 2008 Djibouti Agreement, a peace accord between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Alliance for the Re-liberation of ...  

MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) - at least two of the Somali national Somali disabled army have been wounded at Martini hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu after mortar shell landed in the hospital, official told shabelle radio on Friday.  

A group of suspected Somali pirates detained on a Dutch warship has been released because no country has agreed to prosecute them. A Dutch defence ministry statement said the European Union had decided that the 13 detainees had to be freed because it ...  

Today, the Somali government does not have any Somali enemies except a handful of power-hungry individuals who can be neutralized within days, and there is no civil war because, Somalis in Somalia are tired of war and are yearning to live in peace, and those in the Diaspora, wherever they live, are longing for the [...]  

Ethiopian troops have arrested traditional elders and paramount Somali Chiefs of Hiran region in central Somalia and some others from the Somali administered region of Ethiopia in the town boarder town of Mustahil in Ethiopia. According to a very ...  

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A Somalia Islamist militant group says it is banning the U.N. mine agency from its territory. Al-Shabab accuses U.N. Mine Action of paying police salaries for Somalia’s weak, transitional government. The group said Thursday ...  

While reporting my recent Letter from Mogadishu , I stayed at the presidential compound, Villa Somalia. Sheikh Ahmed Mursal, the chief gardener, gave me a tour of the grounds. Sheikh Ahmed started working at Villa Somalia in the late fifties, when ...  

Somalia’s president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has appointed former Somali police chief as Minister of Water and Mines in a reshuffle to replace the slain ministers killed in Mogadishu hotel blast. Gen. Abdi Hassan Awale [Qaybdid], fired from his ...  

Somalia — MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) - the transitional Federal Government officials have Tuesday appointed new ministers for the former police commander General Abdi Hassan Awale Qeydid and the former minister of the minerals Mohamed Abdullahi ...  

High delegation led by the transitional government prime minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharma'arke has flown to Saudi Arabian kingdom, just as a conference for Somali matters is due to be held in Saudi Arabia, officials said on Monday. TFG officials ...  

MOGADISHU: Somali rebels have executed two men for adultery and murder, but the verdict prompted a battle between two insurgent factions that killed three of the gunmen, witnesses said on Monday. It was the first time Hizbul Islam guerrillas had ...  

A suicide bomber dressed as a woman blew himself up at a university graduation ceremony in Mogadishu on 3 December, killing three Somali journalists and at least 25 others, reports the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). This tragedy has ...  

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When a deadly blast tore through a graduation ceremony in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on 3 December, 23 people died, dozens were injured and the day suddenly turned dark for hundreds of people who had turned up for what should have been a celebration.  

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — A community leader in Somalia says an explosion of an old land mine has killed six children from the same family near the border with Ethiopia. Hareri Hassan Barre says six children between the ages of 3 and 11 were killed by ...