Monday Dec. 11, 2006
At least 70 government forces, who hail from Gedo province in southern Somalia, defected from the government military camp dubbed Manas on the edge of Baidoa, a temporary seat for the transitional government. The soldiers claimed they left their military barracks because of difficulties in life, and lack of salary.More..

Saturday Dec. 09, 2006
The powerful Islamic courts union controlling in many parts of Southern Somalia including the capital city Mogadishu has organized a huge demonstration at Konis Stadium, one of the main soccer playgrounds in Mogadshu after Friday prayers to condemn the endorsement made by the United Nations Security Council to consider authorizing Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) and other African Union countries to deploy troops to Somalia.More..

Thursday Dec. 07, 2006
The long awaited approval of US backed draft resolution that would let regional peacekeeping forces be deployed in the troubled country, Somalia, was unanimously endorsed by UN Security Council member states on Wednesday. The arms embargo that was imposed on Somalia in 1991 when flow of arms in the country was massive was relieved finally .More..

Wednesday Dec. 06, 2006
Islamic Courts security officers in Mogadishu have explained gunfire exchanges that have taken place around former beverage factory on the suburb of Mogadishu. Yusuf Isse Sheik Ahmed known as Kabo-Kutukade, the Islamic Courts security officer in eastern part of Mogadishu has held a press conference in the capital, indicating that an armed group, who forcefully occupied the land of the beverage firm for years, have been evicted after an exchange of gunfire between them [Islamist fighters] and the armed occupants.More..

Monday Dec. 04, 2006
A huge rally against Ethiopian military intervention in Somalia and the US backed draft resolutions that calls on lifting the arms embargo on Somalia partially to let regional peacekeepers enter the country with arms has taken place in the biggest stadium in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday morning. Several thousands of people, most of them public school students with placards written in anti-Ethiopian slogans and defense of Islam in the horn of Africa, have partaken in the rally that ended in peace.More..

Friday Dec. 01, 2006
At least seven people have been killed and six others have been wounded in what believed to be a car bomb attack at the main gateway of Baidoa town the makeshift capital of the Somali transitional federal government. The explosion believed to be a suicide act occurred near a checkpoint at the Bakin main road to Baidoa city killing seven persons.More..

Thursday Nov. 30, 2006
After Hours of debate about the worsening situation in the war-ravaged country Somalia, UN Security Council has finally urged members to abide by preserving the arms embargo imposed on Somalia in 1992, condemning countries letting flow of weapons in Somalia. Security Council member states including the United States were expected to pass a draft resolution to partially ease the arms embargo on Somalia so that African peacekeepers from the Intergovernmental authority on Development (IGAD) member states would be deployed in Somalia.More..

Wednesday Nov. 29, 2006
The Union of Islamic Courts consultative leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys has advised US president Goerge W. Bush to back down the draft plan of lifting the arms embargo on Somalia. Aweys has told London based Asharqalawsat that he would call on the international community and the UN Security Council not to elevate the arms embargo on Somalia, warning that lifting the embargo would give rise to regional wars.More..

Tuesday Nov. 28, 2006
Somalia 's Union of Islamic Courts has accused neighbouring Ethiopia of shelling a town about 630km north of the capital, Mogadishu, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, an Islamic courts leader, told a crowd of more than 10,000 people: "Ethiopian soldiers have massed around Bandiradley and started firing missiles toward our positions "Their tanks are trying to surround the area and now they are about 10km away from the town where our fighters are based."More..

Tuesday Nov. 28, 2006
Thanks for your participation of STS Somalia members contribution of floods disaster in middle shabele region especially in balad area also I am giving you many thanks for payment of the 50$ dollar and I received it from Dahabshil bank to day. After that I would like to congratulate you that we have all ready obtained most of the money which we allocated for the floods of balad area from the STS Somalia side contribution.More..

Sunday Nov. 26, 2006
As we promised on our last meeting we yesterday 23of November to Bal,ad and surrounding areas of middle shabele region where the floods have affected thousands of families

After our team led by STS Somalia chairman Yusuf M Abdi accompanying with the chairman farmer resource group Ali Istiila and STS Somalia secretary Abdirizak Ali Omar reached there the elders and responsibilities of Bal,ad and surrounded villages have recognized Ali Istiila who was one of the officials of ministry agriculture{ Balad coordinator of ministry agriculture } and near villages at time of former government in Siyad Barre welcome us warmly and miraculous. More..

Sunday Nov. 26, 2006
Decisions have been issued unanimously in a press conference held by the Union of Islamic Courts consultative council leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys and the government's parliament speaker Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden in the capital Mogadishu. More..

Saturday Nov. 25, 2006
The powerful Islamic courts movement in Somalia has declared their readiness on their side to defend off what they called Ethiopian aggression shortly after the Ethiopian premier Meles Zanawi said his country has completed preparations for war with neighboring Somalia's powerful Islamist movement, alongside hesitating peace efforts . More..

Tuesday Nov. 21, 2006
Puntland President Gen. Addeh Museh did not cite a reason for his decision, but it comes amid increasing fears that the Council of Islamic Courts will try to seize his territory. The move also isolates Somalia's official government, which has watched helplessly as the Islamic movement steadily gained ground since June. The U.N. envoy to Somalia tried to bolster the fragile administration Monday, urging leaders to restart peace talks with the Islamists in order to avert a war. More..

Sunday Nov. 19, 2006
Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said khat was a bad influence. Many Somali men, especially gunmen, spend hours chewing it each day.He also warned squatters to vacate public buildings they have occupied After 15 years of conflict, many ministries are full of people who have fled fighting in their home regions. Eyewitnesses say one person was shot dead by Islamist fighters on Thursday following protests over khat shortages. More..

Thursday Nov. 16, 2006
The finance minister of the Puntland regional government has said that "meetings without government approval" cannot be held in Bossaso, the commercial capital of the region. Minister Mohamed Ali “Gaagaab”, who is also chairman of the Bari and Karkar Regions Security Committee, made the comments while speaking to local media on Wednesday. More..

Wednesday Nov. 15, 2006
Floods caused by torrential rain in parts of southern Somalia had killed more than 23 people and displaced thousands over the past five days, aid workers and residents said yesterday. Ali Bashi, head of the Fanoole Human Rights Organisation, said the highest number of deaths had been reported in the Gedo region, which borders both Ethiopia and Kenya. More..

Tuesday Nov. 14, 2006
Osama bin Laden declared war on what he considered a "weak horse" (1996) and a "paper tiger" (1998) after watching American troops ordered to pull out of Somalia after only 18 casualties in 1993. The attacks by thugs and terrorists in Iraq today are aimed, not at our troops or the innocent Iraqis who die in them, but at our will to fight. America, our enemies believe, has no stomach for battle. More.

Monday Nov. 13, 2006
Islamist forces expanded their reach in Somalia on Sunday by seizing towns near Galcaio, in the country's north, which until now had been relatively peaceful.The Islamists then turned their guns toward Galcaio and began shelling the outskirts of the city, witnesses said. More.

Sunday Nov. 12, 2006
Somalia's weak government on Saturday rejected a new peace initiative by a renegade lawmaker and the Islamic movement controlling much of the southern part of the war-ravaged country. More.

Saturday Nov. 11, 2006
Islamic Courts militia in the Jubba regions arrested a number of civilians last Wednesday, a source who chose to remain anonymous informed .The source confirmed that 16 men, who all belong to the Harti clan, were arrested by Islamist authorities from their homes in the outskirts of Kismayo, the regional capital. More.

Thursday Nov. 09, 2006
Islamist fighters who control a large area of southern Somalia have stormed a ship hijacked by pirates and recovered it. They said yesterday they would prosecute their captives according to Sharia law, with the amputation of the left leg and right arm.More.

Wednesday Nov. 08, 2006
Voters elected a black Democrat as the first Muslim in Congress on Tuesday after a race in which he advocated quick U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and made little mention of his faith. Keith Ellison, a 43-year-old lawyer and state representative, defeated two rivals, television networks said, to succeed retiring Democrat Martin Sabo in a seat that has been held by Democrats since 1963. More..

Monday Nov. 06, 2006
Galkayo is currently under the control of allied anti-Islamist forces: Puntland, a semiautonomous state in northern Somalia, and militias loyal to government-allied Col. Abdi Qeibdid, one of Mogadishu's defeated warlords.More..

Sunday Nov. 05, 2006
At least 3 people were injured after a gunfight erupted inside Baardhere between militias loyal to Somali Defense Minister Col. Barre “Hirale” Adan Shire and private security militia guarding the Hormuud Telecommunications building More..

Saturday Nov. 04, 2006
The three, brothers Mohammed and Abdullah Ayub and another man, Marat Sumolsky, 35, are among a group of eight foreigners with suspected links to al-Qaeda who are facing terrorism charges in Yemen over an alleged plot to smuggle arms to Somalia. More..

Thursday Nov. 02, 2006
A Somali minister said on Wednesday war in his country appeared likely and talks between the government and Islamists were postponed with mediators urging the Horn of Africa nation's rivals to exercise restraint. After both sides failed to meet face-to-face in three days of Arab League-sponsored discussions in Sudan, the Islamists called for a delay and an international fact-finding mission to be sent to the chaotic country to resolve "fundamental issues". More..

Wednesday Nov. 01, 2006
Diplomats say they are frustrated by the delay and hope the peace talks will begin soon.Negotiations were set to start on Monday but the Somali government delegation did not arrive until late Monday evening.The Union of Islamic Courts has refused to meet with the government delegation until Ethiopian troops withdraw from Somalia.More..

Tuesday Oct. 31, 2006
Islamic leaders Monday banned youthful Somalis from marrying without the consent of their parents, saying such unions violate Islam. "It is against the teaching of our religion and parents do not approve of it," said Sheik Mahad Mohamed Sheik Hassan, chairman of the regional Islamic court in Wanlawien. More..

Monday Oct. 30, 2006
Ethiopia's confidence arises from its perceived military advantage over the Islamists. According to Jane's Defence Weekly, the Ethiopian National Defence Army is estimated to have between 120,000 and 150,000 troops. It is the best equipped military machine in the Horn of Africa, boasting of massive stocks of military hardware that includes old but still serviceable Soviet made T-55 battle tanks, heavy artillery, multiple rocket launchers and towed howitzers.More..

Sunday Aug 13, 2006
The Islamic militants who control Somalia's capital and much of the country's south are "moderate and peace-loving people," a member of Kenya's parliament said Saturday after meeting with the group in Mogadishu. Billow Kerow was part of a 12-member delegation from Kenya that met with the Supreme Council of Islamic Courts' militia, which the United States accuses of harboring al-Qaida terrorists.More..

Saturday Aug 12, 2006
The Somalis have nobody to blame but themselves for their basic plight. Although Somalia has only one ethnic group, one language and one religion, its people are deeply divided by clan, and when long-ruling dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991, the clan leaders were unable to unite and form a new government. Instead, the country fell into civil war and anarchy. More..

Thursday Aug 10, 2006

POWER OF THE PRESS: Spreading the word about atrocities in Africa can help save the people suffering there

More than two years ago, on the Chad-Sudan border, I came across an oasis where 30,000 people from Darfur had taken refuge. There was no international aid available in that remote spot, so they were huddled under trees, shell-shocked, trying to keep their children alive. I went tree to tree and began interviewing. Under the first tree, I found two brothers. One had been shot in the neck and in the jaw his jaw was mostly gone and left for dead in a pile of corpses that included his parents. His brother, shot only in the foot, had managed to escape and had returned at night to bury his parents. But then he found his brother was still alive, so he left his parents' corpses and carried his brother traveling only at night for safety on his back for 49 days to this oasis. More..

Wednesday Aug 09, 2006
At least 15 nations are considering sending troops to be a part of an eventual U.N.-mandated inter- national force in southern Lebanon. Scores of others, such as the United States and Britain, have ruled out sending soldiers. Many of them are skittish about a Middle East quagmire or are stretched thin elsewhere. Over the whole enterprise hangs a Catch-22: Israel refuses to leave until the force is in place, and nations won't deploy forces until a cease-fire is in effect. More..

Tuesday Aug 08, 2006
Security is necessary, but so is attention to socioeconomic and political conditions as well. People need to be fed and clothed and provided with health care and jobs, none of which are priorities to the militia. More..

Monday Aug 07, 2006
Aided by an Ethiopian mediator, the leaders of Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed government have resolved their differences over how to deal with an increasingly strong Islamic militia that controls much of the south, officials said Sunday.
Somalia's transitional government was formed two years ago with the support of the United Nations to help the Horn of Africa country emerge from 16 years of anarchy and violence. More..

Sunday Aug 06, 2006
The council of Islamic Courts in the Somalia capital Mogadishu is receiving financial support for restoring the sanitation of the rubbish-filled city and also to secure peace and stability in the capital. The business people in the Somalia capital Mogadishu have on Saturday donated around 300,000 dollars to council of Islamic Courts to speed up the establishment of security in the capital after 16 years of anarchy . More..

Saturday Aug 05, 2006
The Somalis have called on the international community to support the transitional federal government of Somalia.Speaking to journalists at the Ethiopian Television Studio recently, the Somali people said the Union of Islamic Courts does not represent the people of Somalia. They said they would rally behind the legitimate federal transitional government (FTG) of Somalia. The Somalis commended the activities of the Ethiopian government to maintain peace in the region, and demanded that it should continue efforts geared toward bringing about lasting peace and stability in Somalia. More..

Friday Aug 04, 2006
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi refused to resign yesterday despite a mass exodus of cabinet ministers and mounting criticism over the deployment of Ethiopian troops to protect his feeble 18-month-old administration. Government spokesman Abdirahman Mohamed Nur Dinari said Gedi had been instead working to replace the 36 ministers who had resigned from the 102-member cabinet in the past week calling for Gedi's resignation, even after he escaped a vote of no confidence. More..

Thursday Aug 02, 2006
Somalia's interim government unravelled further yesterday with the resignation of another four top officials who blamed it on the premier's reluctance to reach out to a rival Islamist movement.
The departure of four junior ministers brought to 34 the number of senior officials to have left the Western-backed but virtually powerless government in less than a week. More..

Wednesday Aug 02, 2006
Stressing the importance of continued dialogue between Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and the Supreme Council of Islamic Courts, the senior United Nations envoy to the war-torn country said today that once a peace deal has been negotiated there may be a role for an unarmed observer force as a “neutral third party” in the conflict. More..

Tuesday Aug 01, 2006
Mogadishu, the capital of war-torn Somalia, is a much different place than it was in the days of "Black Hawk Down" more than a dozen years ago. So much so, in fact, that the international airport on the outskirts of the city is open and Sunday... Jubba Airways flew the first commercial flight from that strip in more than a decade. More..

Monday July 31, 2006
Ali Mohamed Gedi, Somalia's prime minister, survived a crucial no confidence motion in parliament yesterday, sparking a brawl in the legislature which saw armed police enter to take control.
Legislators punched each other and wrestled on the ground in chaotic scenes after Gedi garnered 88 votes versus 126 for his opponents - short of the two-thirds majority needed to censure him. More..

Sunday July 30, 2006
Somalia's prime minister has accused Libya, Egypt and Iran of fueling conflict in Somalia by supporting terrorists. Ali Mohammed Gedi said Saturday in Baidoa the three middle-eastern nations were backing Islamist militias that have taken control of the capital, Mogadishu, and much of Southern Somalia.Egypt's Foreign Ministry rejected the charge. More..

Saturday July 29, 2006
A Cabinet member of the government in Baidoa, widely regarded as powerless, was assassinated yesterday as he left a mosque, enraging hundreds of Somalis who rioted in the streets screaming, "We want a government that can restore law and order."  It was the second shooting of a lawmaker this week and the latest blow to an administration that has watched helplessly as Islamist militants with purported links to al Qaeda took control of the capital and much of southern Somalia. More..

Friday July 28, 2006
Somalia's virtually powerless government was unravelling as a fifth of its cabinet resigned in disgust and the administration's Islamic rivals took over the presidential palace in the capital of Mogadishu.Eighteen key ministers in the 102-member cabinet said on Thursday their government had failed to bring peace to this chaotic African nation as it emerged from 15 years of anarchy.More..

Thursday July 27, 2006
At least 19 ministers and deputy ministers in Somalia's transitional government have decided to resign, a cabinet minister has told the BBC. Public Works Minister Osman Ali Atto said he came back from the capital with an agreement from the Islamic courts that fresh talks be held. But he said that Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi was "an obstacle to progress" and had refused to listen. More..

Thursday July 27, 2006
A mystery cargo plane that landed in Somalia's capital Mogadishu yesterday has triggered accusations from the interim government that it was carrying weapons from Eritrea to support rival Islamists. In only the second arrival of a plane to Mogadishu's old international airport since Islamists re-opened it days ago, residents reported seeing a medium-sized aircraft with no recognisable identity land and unload large boxes. More..

Wednesday July 26, 2006
The leader of the Islamic militia that has taken hold of southern Somalia on Tuesday rebuffed a U.N. plan for peace talks with the government, saying he will not negotiate until the government expels all foreign troops. "Until Ethiopian troops leave Somali soil, we will never negotiate with the government," said Islamic militia leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys. More..

Tuesday July 25, 2006
A leader of the Islamic militia controlling most of southern Somalia said Monday that he will produce "corpses or POWs" to prove that neighboring Ethiopia has sent soldiers across the border to protect Somalia's weak government. Ethiopian and Somali government officials have not confirmed that Ethiopian troops have entered Somalia, despite widespread witness accounts that the soldiers arrived four days ago. More..

Monday July 24, 2006
Ethiopian troops moved further into Somalia yesterday, opening a new front in the American-led "war on terror". An estimated 5000 Ethiopian soldiers are believed to be inside Somalia, protecting the weak transitional government from an Islamist force that controls half the country. The US does not want Somalia to fall into the hands of the Islamists; so far, regional observers point out, neither the US nor any other UN Security Council member has condemned the Ethiopian invasion.More..

Sunday July 23, 2006
Ethiopian troops entered a second Somali town Saturday to protect the country's weak interim government, residents and U.N. workers said. The move angered the Islamic militia that controls most of Somalia and caused peace talks to collapse. About 200 Ethiopian troops, in pickup trucks mounted with machine guns, moved into Wajid and took control of the airport, meeting no resistance, witnesses said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals. More..

Saturday July 22, 2006
Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, in an angry radio broadcast, said Ethiopia deployed troops to the government's base in Baidoa, 150 miles northwest of Mogadishu, to bolster what he described as a puppet regime. He said President Abdullahi Yusuf, his longtime rival, has "been a servant of Ethiopia for a long time." "I am calling on the Somali people to wage a holy war against Ethiopians in Baidoa," said Aweys, who is accused by the U.S. government of having ties to al Qaeda. More..

Friday July 21, 2006
Ethiopian troops were yesterday in the Somali town of Baidoa, seat of Somalia's internationally backed but weak transitional government. According to witnesses their mission was to protect the administration from advancing Islamic forces. The claims were quickly denied by both Ethiopia and the largely powerless Somali government but witnesses insisted that Ethiopian soldiers had driven into Baidoa with about 20 military vehicles. More..

Thursday July 20, 2006
Somalia's prime minister has accused the nation's powerful Islamist movement of planning to attack the seat of the weak transitional government, raising already heightened tensions. Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi said Muslim militia had moved to within 40 kilometres of the government's base in Baidoa, northwest of Mogadishu, and intended to strike the town in violation of a truce. More..

Wednesday July 19, 2006
Heavily armed Islamist militia who control the capital advanced toward the seat of Somalia's interim administration on Wednesday, stoking fears of conflict and leading the government to put its troops on alert. "We see it as aggression toward government-controlled areas and the people who support us," Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi told Reuters from the government's provincial base in Baidoa. More..

Wednesday July 19, 2006
The Islamic Courts Union (ICU), the dominant Islamist movement in the narrow nation in the Horn of Africa, controls more than 20 percent of Somalian territory and 40 percent of the Somalian people. Mr. Cohen said Somalis have enjoyed more security and stability after the ICU's June takeover of the capital, Mogadishu, than they had in the past 15 years. More..

Tuesday July 18, 2006
Since the Union of Islamic Courts has seized control of Mogadishu on 5 June, life in Mogadishu is getting better, and people are optimistic. What is seen as a historic move, the last two weeks the visible and active weapons in the capital went into a single hand for the first time in 16 years, and the administration came under the control of the Islamic courts union. More..

Monday July 17, 2006
The men were freed on Saturday, and it wasn't clear if any ransom has been paid, said Roy Cimatu, the government's special envoy to the Middle East.The men were seized after their oil tanker, the United Arab Emirates-registered MT LIN1, offloaded its cargo at a southern Somali port on March 29, the Philippine Foreign Affairs Department said. More..

Sunday July 16, 2006
Islamists in Mogadishu have commandeered today militiamen and armed vehicles belonged by Muse Sudi Yalahow, former strong warlord in Mogadishu particularly northern district of Karan.9 armed vehicles including four Anti Aircraft carriers have been handed over Karan Islamic Court which members to Islamists Union in the Capital.More..

Saturday July 15, 2006
Somalia's weak, UN-backed government has refused to travel to Sudan for Saturday's peace talks with Islamists who control the capital, Mogadishu. The president accused the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) of breaking a truce agreed at the last Sudan talks. Correspondents say this is a setback for attempts to avoid a confrontation between the two groups. More..

Friday July 14, 2006
Somalia's nearly powerless interim government said on Friday it wants to postpone this weekend's peace talks with an Islamic militia that has seized control of nearly all of southern Somalia, saying the group has become increasingly radical. More..

Somalia military movements increase as talks near
Rivals surrender weapons in Somalia

Friday July 14, 2006
About 100 people staged the protest in the town of Jowhar, captured by the Union of Islamic Courts last month. Meanwhile, a Djibouti minister has reportedly said that the US would not be allowed to use its base there to attack Somalia's Islamists. More..

UN may consider peace mission in Somalia
Somalia : Mogdishu port is now Islamists Control

Thursday July 13, 2006
A Somali warlord ousted from his stronghold last month by Islamic militia has thrown his lot in with the country's largely powerless transitional government, an official said yesterday. Mohamed Dheere arrived at the seat of the government in the town of Baidoa on Tuesday and pledged his backing to the administration as it struggled to assert authority over Islamist challenges, he said. More..

Tuesday July 11, 2006
More than 500 hundred militias loyal to the warlords, Abdi Hassan Awale Keybdid and Husien Mohamed Aidid, the interior minister, have surrendered their weapons to the Islamic courts militia early on Tuesday following over night efforts by clan elders, said Heyle Abdi, a top Islamic militia commander. More..

Tuesday July 11, 2006
The Islamic Courts Union, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia , is consolidating power in the capital city of Mogadishu. The ICU is conducting military operations against rival warlords who sat out of last month's fighting. More..

Crackdown on Somali Journalists
Even Statelessness Goes Better With Coke. Or Does It?

Monday July 10, 2006
Islamic militiamen rooting out resistance in the capital battled supporters of a secular warlord in door-to-door fighting Sunday that left 20 people dead and 40 wounded, witnesses and doctors said. More..

Sharia for Somali shooting
At Least 20 Killed In Mogadishu

Sunday July 09, 2006
the fighting is between forces loyal to Sa'ad sub-clan supporting warlord Abdi Hassan Awale Keybdid and others loyal to Islamic courts union in south Mogadishu .According to eyewitnesses, the fighting, in and around Medina district has started at About 5:00 am local time, just after morning prayer, when about two hundred Islamic militia with dozens of battle wagons attacked on a militias loyal to the Internal minister Hussein Mohamed Aidid, who were based at a former police station, known as Galbeed. More..

SOMALIA : Supreme Court members sworn-in
SOMALIA : Int'l delegation meets Kismayo leadership

Sunday July 09, 2006
Qeibdid's militiamen lost at least six men and control of the strategic Mogadishu-Afgoi road that leads south of the Capital on June 27 to Islamist militias. Since then, Qeibdid's forces have fortified themselves around Medina neighborhood and have been completely surrounding by heavily armed Islamist militiamen. More..

SOMALIA : Supreme Court members sworn-in
SOMALIA : Int'l delegation meets Kismayo leadership

Saturday July 08, 2006
Armed militias from the Islamic Courts in Mogadishu have raided and disrupted wedding ceremony at a house in Huriwaa neighborhood of southern Mogadishu. More..

War fears unsettle Somalia's temporary capital
New forms of Ethiopian Subjugation in Ogaden

Friday July 07, 2006
The Islamic group that controls Somalia's capital arrested two of its own militiamen for killing two people who were watching a World Cup soccer match, the group's leader said Thursday. The two detained militiamen allegedly shot a teenage girl and a businessman who defied their orders to stop watching the match between Italy and Germany on Tuesday. More..

Two held in shooting of soccer TV fans
World record attempt will close one lane of Perrine Bridge today

Thursday July 06, 2006
Radical Islamic militia fighters in central Somalia shot and killed two people at the screening of a banned World Cup soccer broadcast, an independent radio station reported. More..

Video shows Arabs fighting in Somalia
al-Qaeda in Somalia ; US failes to act in 2002

Wednesday July 05, 2006
THE PRESIDENT of Somalia's semi-autonomous State of Puntland has returned to Puntland after a weeks-long trip to several countries overseas. President Mohamud “Adde” Muse landed at Bender Qassim International Airport in the bustling port city of Bossaso this afternoon and was welcomed by members of his administration, civic groups and crowds of people. More..

SOMALIA : Kismayo governor vows drastic steps to combat crime
Osama, Death Squads and the Biggest Lie Ever Told

Monday July 03, 2006
In the latest indication that Ethiopia might try to bolster Somalia's weak interim government as an Islamic militia gains increasing power, about 100 troops from Addis Ababa at the weekend crossed the border into Somalia. More..

Somali Islamists spurn Bin Laden
Somalia : A Case Study in Interventionism

Sunday July 02, 2006
Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden issued a message on the Internet yesterday addressing Islamist militants in Iraq and Somalia. Speaking to Iraqi fighters, he said in his fifth statement this year and his second in two days, that the Islamic community was depending on them. More..

Fewer wars tallied globally; conflicts may be changing
US fed Somali clan feud that backfired

Saturday July 01, 2006
Funds are flowing into Somalia from Saudi Arabia and Yemen to support the Islamic Courts movement that seized the capital Mogadishu this month, said a senior US official on Thursday. The State Department's point person on Africa, Jendayi Frazer, told a hearing on Capitol Hill that the United States and others were reaching out to the Arab League about the flow of funds into Somalia from Arab countries. More..

UN: Mixed Start for New Human Rights Council
Somalia Independence Day celebrated in Puntland

Thursday Jun 29, 2006
kismayo is very strategic for stsaidsom to open an office ,because it is on34e of the largest cities in somalia and olso one of the most populated cities in the country as being the thirth capital city of somali republic.itis as well very important for stsaidsom about hivlaids awareness activities because kismayo is satuated near the border of kenya which is one of hivlaids positives.More..

Eritrea : Senior Foreign Ministry Official Confirms TPLF Forces ...

Thursday Jun 29, 2006
Militiamen led by Abdi Hassan Awale, head of a Habar Gidir clan, were facing off with militiamen loyal to Islamists who controlled the capital, said restaurateur Hassan Fidow. The two sides were 500 metres apart, he said. More..

UN urged to block arms transfer
World briefs - June 29, 2006

Wednesday Jun 28, 2006
Somalia's newly powerful Islamists said on Monday they will stone to death five rapists, in what some fear is the latest sign of a plan to install a hardline Islamic authority like Afghanistan's Taliban.The punishments, like others carried out by the Islamists in their sharia courts in the capital Mogadishu and elsewhere, follow the naming of Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys -- on a UN list of al-Qaeda associates -- to a top post over the weekend. More..

Six killed in south Mogadishu in renewed clashes
Regime change in Mogadishu

Tuesday Jun 27, 2006
At least five people were killed on the edge of the Somali capital early on Tuesday when Islamic gunmen attacked two positions held by fighters loyal to a warlord, militia sources said.
In addition to the deaths, at least six people were wounded in the battles, the first clashes around the city since Islamists seized control of Mogadishu earlier this month from a United States-backed warlord alliance, they said.. More..

Tuesday Jun 27, 2006
The new supreme leader of Somalia's Islamic courts, which seized control of Mogadishu this month from a US-backed Warlord Alliance, has said that Sharia law would be imposed throughout the country. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a hardline cleric designated a terrorist by the United States, which says he has links to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, also said the US charges were "misplaced" and a "distortion of the truth." More..

Islamists in Somalia Say They Plan to Execute 5 Rapists by Stoning..
SOMALIA : 2 more people die after Kismayo fighting..

Monday Jun 26, 2006
China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is in Africa this week shopping for energy deals to fuel his country's turbocharged economic expansion while seeking to expand its diplomatic influence. But these twin aims may not be easy to reconcile because China's push into the resource-rich continent is geared heavily to securing access to one key item: Oil. More..

Somalia's Islamic Courts Name Radical Cleric as Head of New ...
Somalia : Protest against ban on watching world cup match held in ...

Sunday Jun 25, 2006
Somalia fundamentalist leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys stands inside a mosque in northern Mogadishu, in this Oct. 12, 2005, file photo. Aweys, who is listed by the U.S. State Department as a suspected al-Qaida collaborator, was named Saturday, June 24, 2006, as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia's capital. More..

Saturday Jun 24, 2006
With peace eluding their strife-stricken homeland now for more than a decade, not many among an estimated 800 Somalis living in Qatar know what they would do if they have to suddenly leave this country. More..

Poverty is most serious, spread human rights abuse
An idea whose time has come?

Friday Jun 23, 2006

A SCANDANAVIAN journalist was shot and killed today in the Somali capital while attending a demonstration organized by Islamic courts that seized Mogadishu this month, witnesses said. Unknown gunmen shot the journalist, whose exact nationality could not be immediately confirmed, at a rally site in the southern part of the city, the witnesses said. More..

Thursday Jun 22, 2006
Sudan's president is to mediate in talks between Mogadishu's new Islamist rulers and Somalia's interim government on Thursday. The Arab League-sponsored talks are aimed at heading off new war in the Horn of Africa nation. More..

Somalis Relieved at Warlords' Defeat
Arab League sponsored Somali meet today

Wednesday Jun 21, 2006
Somali transitional President Abdullahi Yusuf arrived in Addis Ababa for talks with the African Union (AU) on Tuesday, whose plans to deploy peacekeepers in the country face a raft of challenges including opposition from increasing powerful Islamists, officials said. More..

US seeks dialogue to end standoff in Somalia
Global Islamists behind Somali takeover, Yusuf says

Tuesday Jun 20, 2006
The Islamist militia said its victory has put an end to factional fighting in Mogadishu that has taken place since the government of President Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991. The movement has denied charges it is linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network and last week pledged to deny terrorists a haven in Somalia. More..

Somalia's Civil War May Become Regional Conflict, UN Envoy Says
Ethiopia Troop Intervention In Somalia Risky- UN envoy

Monday Jun 19, 2006
Having consolidated their control over Somalia's official capital Mogadishu, the Islamic Courts Union (I.C.U.) moved during the week of June 12 to extend their rule to most of the country's southern region, taking the strategic town of Jowhar -- the last stronghold of their warlord adversaries -- and then sweeping north toward Beletweyne near the Ethiopian border, meeting no significant resistance along the way. More..

Ethiopia rejects Somalia claims
AU to mull deployment to Somalia

sunday Jun 18, 2006
The leader of the Islamic militia that seized Somalia's capital said Saturday that 300 Ethiopian soldiers had entered the country to help his rivals, but he promised not to attack the weak government that represented his only challenge. More..

Militia: Ethiopian forces cross into Somalia
Somalia accuses Ethiopia of incursion

saturday Jun 17, 2006
Islamic militias secured the backing of influential clan elders overnight to set up a new system of governance for swathes of southern Somalia which the Islamists now control, an elder said yesterday. Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the head of the Joint Islamic Courts, sealed a deal with the traditional community leaders in Jowhar, a former stronghold of a US-backed alliance of warlords who were routed from the town on Wednesday.More..

US Says Dialogue Between Somali Factions Critically Important
Local Administration heads called up again

Friday Jun 16, 2006
At least 10,000 people on Friday protested against a proposal for a peacekeeping mission in the Somali capital. The protest is the second since Wednesday's parliamentary vote in favour of a plan for the deployment of Ugandan and Sudanese peacekeepers in the capital. More..

New US-organized group lends support to Somalia's weak interim
Thousands of Somalis protest peacekeeping mission..

Friday Jun 16, 2006
The first meeting in New York of a new international Contact Group on Somalia has given strong backing to the transitional government there.
The government, set up with UN backing two years ago, has been unable to enter the capital Mogadishu, now controlled by an Islamist militia.. More..

Annan questions US support of Somali warlords
Islamic militia ousts warlords from bastion

Thursday Jun 15, 2006
President Abdullahi Yusuf's government, whose military consists of little more than the president's personal militia, has watched from the sidelines as the Islamic forces overcame a coalition of secular warlords to take control of southern Somalia. More..

EU praises Kenya's efforts in peace talks
Ethiopia- Somalia -Yemen: Testimonies from Somalia.

Wednesday Jun 14, 2006
Somalia's parliament on Wednesday approved deployment of foreign peacekeepers to the anarchic nation, a move opposed by newly powerful Islamist militias controlling Mogadishu, the parliament speaker said. More..

Somalia in plea for a peace force...
Militia drive out Somali warlords...

Wednesday Jun 14, 2006
Hours after the Islamic militia attacked Jowhar from three directions, the remaining forces of secular warlords - routed from the capital, Mogadishu, last week - fled east. Some residents were also leaving. There was no report on casualties.The Islamic militia also seized the airport, some 10 kilometres from downtown Jowhar. More..

Islamists Continue Militant March Across Somalia..
Somali Lawmakers Approve Peacekeeping Plan..

Wednesday Jun 14, 2006
Three top members of a U.S.-backed alliance of warlords have fled their last remaining stronghold in southern Somalia, apparently to discourage an attack on the town by an increasingly powerful Islamic militia, two Somali officials said Wednesday. . More..

Islamic fighters attack Somali town..
Should the US be concerned about Somalia ?..

Tuesday Jun 13, 2006
The leader whose Islamic Courts Union militia seized control of this lawless East African capital last week after fierce fighting with U.S.-backed warlords said Monday that he seeks an understanding with the United States and denied that his group is sheltering al Qaeda terrorists.More..

Sunday Jun 11, 2006
Somalia's interim government has called on Islamist gunmen, who seized Mogadishu from an alliance of warlords, to hand over their weapons in the hope a disarmament would allow lawmakers to return to the capital. . More..

US mustn't give up on Somalia 's..
Somali militia leader denies al-Qaida ties..

Saturday Jun 10, 2006
“Today no gun shots we hear, I feel stable, but the people of the town fears that the fighting might resume if it is not achieved for final solution on the hostility,” local resident told Somalinet. More..

Somalis enjoy new calm
US to create Somalia diplomatic group

Saturday Jun 10, 2006
The goal of the group's meeting, to be held in New York, is "to promote concerted action and coordination to support the Somalia transitional federal institutions, and so we are going to be working with other interested states and international organizations on this matter," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. "We think it's the right time." More..

Several international terrorists have been killed, but some have ...
Mogadishu bolstered by lull in violence...

Friday Jun 09, 2006
At least six people were killed on Friday in the town of Baidoa in fighting between local militiamen and bodyguards of Somalia's interim president, local journalists said. More..

Kenya vows to continue crackdown against Somali warlords...
Bush, it's about time for ethics training..

Friday Jun 09, 2006
Somali Islamists consolidated their grip on the lawless capital yesterday, setting up Sharia law courts in and around the city despite vows from a US-backed warlord alliance to resist. .More..

Somali leaders, militia talk about future...
Hopes brighten in Somalia

Friday Jun 09, 2006
Since the Somali government collapsed in 1991, Islamic groups have been gaining traction and support, often through promulgating a peaceful and stable alternative to the constant violence of rival warlords. This week, as Islamic militias ousted the warlords and took control of Mogadishu, the threat that from this failed state would rise an Islamic regime that is both breeding ground and safe haven for al Qaeda terrorism became too real.More..

Islamic militia begins talks with Somalia's transitional ...
Warlords advance towards Mogadishu, say residents

Thursday Jun 08, 2006
An increasingly powerful Islamic militia rolled through its newly captured territory and installed a religious court in one town Wednesday as the remnants of a U.S.-backed alliance of warlords desperately tried to regroup.
The Islamic Courts Union controls the Somali capital and surrounding areas after defeating the secular warlord alliance in weeks of battles that killed at least 330 people _ many of them civilians caught in the crossfire.. More..

Wednesday Jun 07, 2006
With tensions running high, thousands of Somalians took to the streets of their capital Tuesday, some rallying for a Muslim militia who claimed control of Mogadishu a day earlier and others calling for the religious fighters to get out. More..

Bush worried about instability in Somalia...
Thousands Rally In Somali Capital...

Tuesday Jun 06, 2006
Protesters shouted "We don't need Islamic deception!" and "We don't want Islamic courts, we want peace!" at a rally called by the Abgal clan. The leaders of the capital's largest and historically strongest clan had controlled northern Mogadishu since 1991.Islamic militiamen maintained positions about a mile from the protest but did not move to stop it. .. More..

Warlords refuse Sharia law...
top UN envoy calls on Islamic forces to enter dialogue..

Tuesday Jun 06, 2006
Muslim militias claimed Monday to have routed warlords allegedly backed by the United States after weeks of fighting for control of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, dealing a setback to U.S. efforts to contain the spread of militant Islam. U.S. officials and other experts warned that if the militias consolidated their victory they would establish an Islamist state where al-Qaida could secure bases from which it could spread its violent ideology to other East African and Horn of Africa nations. More..

Somalia's Islamic leaders transform themselves from neighborhood ...
Al-Qaida toehold in Horn of Africa?

Monday Jun 05, 2006
Mogadishu seems to be enjoying peace and stability after the full control of it by the union Islamic courts and the people the different Mogadishu people are fully supporting this new change of peace and stability.The Islamic Courts have taken control of Mogadishu Deyniile neighborhood and the armed militiamen controlled by the once strong minister Mohamed Qanyare Afrah who has been fighting against the Islamic Courts in Mogadishu. More..

Monday Jun 05, 2006
Somali Islamic fighters seized a key town in the north yesterday after heavy clashes with gunmen allied to a warlord alliance, expanding their territory outside the lawless capital.Columns of heavily armed Islamic fighters surrounded and pounded Balad, about 30km north of Mogadishu, as militiamen loyal to the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) fled to safety, witnesses and militia commanders said. . More..

Islamists Take Over Key Somali Town
Somali premier revokes ministership from warlords

Sunday Jun 04, 2006
Five people were killed in fighting between Islamic militiamen and their secular rivals on the outskirts of Somalia‘s war-torn capital Saturday. Nearly 100 people have died in Mogadishu since May 24 and more than 1,500 people have been injured. Many victims have been civilians caught in the crossfire. .More..

Fresh Fighting in Somalia Leaves 11 Dead
Rahm Emmanuel...Your 50 Meter Target

Friday Jun 02, 2006
Thousands of people from all different districts in Banadir Region have participated the rally chanting Anti USA slogans and “we don't need those in Dollar interest, we don't refuse our religion' one banner read. The rally has been organized by a recently announced panel known as the Campaign for defeating the religion and people, they showed how much they hate Americans whom they said are supporting warlords in the city. More..

Friday Jun 02, 2006
At least 11 people were killed and dozens wounded as fighters with a US-backed warlord alliance battled suspected Islamic gunmen outside the lawless Somali capital, witnesses said.. More..

Somali top officials had intensive talks in Baidoa
Return to Somalia : The war on terror - a new front

Wednesday May 31, 2006
A new outbreak of fighting between rival militias in the Somali capital Mogadishu killed at least six people including two civilians early on Wednesday, residents said. "We woke up to the noises of the mortars and other guns used by both sides," resident Ahmed Dige told Reuters.. More

Militiamen Take Over Hospital, Offering Bleak Omen in Somalia
US diplomat moved over Somalia view

Tuesday May 30, 2006
Islamic militiamen and rival secular fighters traded machine-gun, rocket and mortar fire in Somalia's capital Saturday, killing at least eight and wounding a dozen as residents fled on foot or in hired minivans. But the fighting was lighter one day after hundreds of residents fled some of the fiercest battles in Mogadishu in 14 years.. . More

Somali president gives payment to his Puntland militia
UN humanitarian envoy condemns violence in Somali capital

Monday May 29, 2006
Relative calm returned to the war-torn Somali capital yesterday after a day of fierce battles between rival fighters allied to Islamic courts and a United States-backed warlord alliance left dozens dead and scores wounded. But sporadic gunfire could still be heard in two Mogadishu districts where fighting was most intense on Saturday and which continued overnight to claim seven lives and injure 14 others. . More

Aid to anti-Islamists might raise anti-US feelings in Somalia
Khat Kills - Heart Warning
Fleeing families from hostile Mogadishu pouring into other Regions

Sunday May 28, 2006
MOGADHISU, Somalia — Heavy artillery, mortar shelling and gunfire have killed at least 20 people in a fourth day of fighting between rival militias in the Somali capital, residents and militia leaders say.The battle, which erupted on Wednesday and has killed at least 70 people so far, had eased overnight.But fighting broke out in the Daynile and Keysaney districts on Saturday, sending terrified residents fleeing, . More

Somalia : Organization Based in Finland Talks About the Violences ...
Somalia : Islamic militias and secular rivals resume fighting in ...
Information Minister meets Somalia Charge d' Affaires

Thursday May 25, 2006
OGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Renewed fighting between Islamic militias and secular warlords killed at least 38 people in the Somali capital and sent thousands of frightened civilians running from their homes, medical officials and a militia commander said. The secular alliance charges that the Islamic militiamen have links to al-Qaida. The Islamic group accuses the secularists of being puppets of the United States..More

Interview: Yemen fears al-Qaida in Somalia
Somalia : UN Secretary General's Special Representative Condemns ...
Somalia : Ethiopia Supports Military Supply to Somali Warlord

Tuesday May 23, 2006
Hilary Benn's foray into war-torn, drought-plagued Somalia last week was a brave attempt to focus attention on the land the world forgot. Few politicians have ventured there since the central government collapsed in 1991 and warlords took over. Visiting a camp for displaced persons, the international development secretary pledged an additional £8m in humanitarian and educational assistance. .More

Somalia : People Smuggling to Yemen Intensifies, Hundreds Thrown ...
Innocents evacuated from Mogadishu fighting face life difficulties
Bomb explosion Rocks Somalia port town of Merca

Monday May 22, 2006
Its powerless government sits in an old grain warehouse. The capital has regularly been littered with corpses. And few foreigners dare enter the country. So what hope for Somalia? More than a decade after the spectacular failure of a U.S.-led attempt to pacify the anarchic Horn of Africa nation -- depicted in the Hollywood movie "Black Hawk Down" -- Somalia is back in the spotlight, again for all the wrong reasons.More

US covert operations underway in Somalia ; resource conflict ... Online Journal
Somali cabinet approves proposal on peacekeeping troops to Somalia
Somalia : Mogadishu Streets blocked during Latest Clashes to be ...

Some of the warlords we are supporting purportedly to keep Al Qaeda from establishing a beachhead in the African nation--were the same ones who helped to bring down American Blackhawk helicopters in 1993. More Monday May 22, 2006

The European Commission (EC) has decided to provide 70 million euros (89 million U.S. dollars) for Somali a's transitional authority, said the commission on Friday.This package put emphasis on peace, security and good governance, said the executive body of the European Union (EU). .More Saturday, May 20, 2006.

News - Somalia still suffering
US Accused of Backing Warlords in Somalia
Arab League sennd new ambassador to Somalia
Is US fighting or aiding terrorism in Somalia ?

Thursday, May 18, 2006
Militia battles have been waged over the past week between militants linked to the Islamic courts, which have imposed order on parts of Mogadishu through traditional Islamic law, and a self-styled anti-terrorism alliance of warlords..More

Foreign Islamist Fighters Are Reported in Somalia New York Times
US dodges comment on report of backing warlords in Somalia Xinhua
Britain sees no evidence US behind Somalia violence Washington Post

Wenesday, May 10, 2006
MOGADISHU, Somalia (Reuters) -- The latest flare-up between Islamic militia and a self-styled anti-terrorism alliance of warlords in Somalia's capital has killed at least 57 people, sources from both sides said Tuesday.But late Tuesday, a top Islamist said that the Islamic militia would observe a cease-fire to end fighting in Mogadishu's rundown Siisii area that has also wounded 103, mostly civilians..More

Thursday, May 04, 2006
A Somali teenager has stabbed to death his father's killer in a public execution ordered by an Islamic court. Large crowds gathered at a Koranic school in Somalia's capital to watch 16-year-old Mohamed Moallim, stab Omar Hussein in the head and throat..More

Thursday, May 04, 2006
After yesterday's clashes in central Baidoa that left one person dead and six others injured, the salvation council of Digil and Mirifle clans in southwest Somalia has appealed for Somali president Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed to withdraw wholly his militia from Baidoa on Wednesday. .More

Thursday, May 04, 2006
Mohammed Gedi accompanied by other senior government officials, said that his government was doing its best to bring and ensure peace in the country and to reconciliate the warring factions. He also added that the country was using bottom-up-approach in building the local administration. More

Thursday, May 04, 2006
The leader of a U.N.-backed transitional government that is trying to assert control over Somalia said Wednesday he believes the United States is funding an alliance of warlords fighting radical Islamic militias in his country and should be working directly with his administration instead. The United States has said only that American officials have met with a wide variety of Somali leaders to try to fight international terrorists in the country..More

Wednesday May 03, 2006
Up to seven people were injured on Tuesday in a clash that erupted when militiamen tried to seize an official car at the temporary base of Somalia's interim government in Baidoa, diplomatic and government sources said. .More

Monday May 01, 2006
Baidoa is eager to redefine itself after years of war and drought. There is also something in the air here that has not been around for ages a glimmer of hope There was little of that 14 years ago, when Baidoa's streets were lined with the skeletal bodies of the dead and the only orphanage was losing 10 to 15 children a day to hunger.More

Monday May 01, 2006
MP Mohamed Abdi Yusuf, who is renown for his anti-Ethiopian rhetoric, suggested that the parliament debate about an issue, which, he said, was part of Ethiopia's plans to destabilize the territorial integrity of the Somali nation. Several other MPs immediately supported MP Mohamed Abdi's controversial move within the parliament hall. .More

Sunday April 30, 2006
Kjell M. Bondevik Today he travels to Kenya and then Somalia before ending his mission with a meeting with the League of Arab States in Cairo, with the aim of encouraging its member countries to contribute funds to the critical needs of the Horn of Africa. .More

Saturday April 29, 2006
President Kibaki, who is also the chairman of Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGA D) which brokered the two peace processes, also said the challenge facing Kenya as chair was to mitigate the effects of drought and search for lasting peace in Sudan and Somalia. .More

Thursday , April 27, 2006
As part of the 2006 Consolidated Appeal for the Horn of Africa recently launched by the UN and its humanitarian partners, FAO is appealing for over US$11 million in funding to support its emergency-related agricultural activities in three of the affected countries -- Eritrea, Djibouti and Kenya. In addition, FAO is requesting US$11.6 million under the revised consolidated appeal for Somalia. .More

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Somali lawmakers voted on Saturday to make the city of Baidoa the government's temporary base, officials said, reaching an agreement on a divisive issue that has all but paralysed the fragile administration. government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari said "I think it will take one year," he told Reuters. .More

Monday April 24, 2006,
At least 3 people were reported dead today and 7 others wounded after two groups of militias fought in Hamar-Weine district of Mogadishu, Somalia's nominal capital.The fighting involved militias loyal to the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT), .More

Sunday April 23, 2006,
Villagers call it the "War of the Well," a battle that erupted between two clans over control of a watering hole in this dusty, drought-stricken trading town. By the time it ended two years later, 250 men were dead. Now there are well widows, well warlords and well warriors."We call them the 'warlords of water,' " Fatuma Ali Mahmood, 35, said of the armed men who control the water sources. .More

Tuesday April 18, 2006,
Prime minister says "move an attempt to ward off piracy "
Ali Mohamed Gedi told lawmakers Sunday that the United States also would help the transitional government set up a coast guard to secure Somalia's 621-mile (1,000-kilometer) coastline. The agreement was reached during talks with the U.S. ambassador in Kenya, .More

Tuesday, Febraury 28, 06
More than 10,000 people could soon die from famine every month in Somalia if a severe drought persists, according to UN aid agencies. The extensive drought affecting the Horn of Africa has already caused food shortages across south and , . More

Tuesday, March 28, 06
STS Somalia purchased a Nisan Mini-bus.The purpose that STS Somalia puyed the bus is to use it as transportation. The bus had been finished by STS International Solidarity .More

Tuesday, Febraury 28, 2006
STS Somalia had sent two vehicles to the drought effected areas of the southern Somalia , the emergency food supplies to the starving people living at south Somalia ,..More

Tuesday, Febraury 28, 2006
Peace Campaign Group had just concluded the first phase of a peace conference at Bay and Bakool were trying to mediate two clans of the Rahanwayn Community, This is the report which had been reached in the peace compromise:More

Febraury 27, 2006
If we have any measure of patriotism, it is shameful enough for us to witness an era of Somalia's decline which is not brought about by foreign assailants but by our collective indiscretion," Yusuf said. "Each one of us should choose between serving our citizens or go down in history as the leaders who failed to lead their people and promoted hostilities," he told the legislators.More

Tuesday, Febraury 21, 2006
To day Sunday February 21, STS Somalia food convoys left to the drought STS Somalia rented two trucks one heavy truck for food and other supplies transport, the other Water tank which will work at the drought areas for seven day to supply water.The two vehicles left the capital city at about 8:30 in the morning the heavy truck in carrying food, medicine, and clothes while the water tank is leaded with water.More