September 24

• Somalia: Al Shabaab Targets Journalists

  Until recently, after a day's work in one of the world's most volatile cities, Mogadishu journalists and civil servants alike would unwind in The Village, a restaurant in the heart... Read more »

September 16

• Somalia: Al-Shabaab Is Not Done With Nation

  Only his second day in office and Somalia's new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, was immediately introduced to the mercilessness of militant Islamist group al-Shabaab, when he... Read more »

September 13

• Somalia: New Pro-Education President Gives Somali Youth Hope

  For the first time in 43 years, Somalia has elected a formal leader. This officially marks the end of an eight-year transitional administration in the war- and famine-ravaged... Read more »

August 30

• Somalia: 'Al-Qaeda Planning Attack in the Hague'

  Al-Qaeda has reportedly recruited two Somali men in Pakistan to carry out a suicide attack in The Hague. According to the Pakistani weekly Friday Times, al-Qaeda has recruited two... Read more »

August 20

• Somalia: Holiday in Somalia Turns Into Nightmare (part 2) [analysis]

  Sarah, of Somali descent but born in the Netherlands, was 16 when she was forced to marry her uncle in Somalia. After several attempts she managed to escape from Mogadishu last... Read more »

August 17

• Somalia: Holiday in Somalia Turns Into Nightmare (I) [opinion]

  Sarah, of Somali descent but born in the Netherlands, was 16 when she was forced to marry her uncle in Somalia. After several attempts she managed to escape from Mogadishu last... Read more »

August 16

• Eritrea: 'Close the Eritrean Consulate,' Says Dutch-Eritrean Journalist [interview]

  He refuses to pay 2 percent income tax to the Eritrean government. Dutch-Eritrean journalist Habtom Yohannes, who has been living in the Netherlands since the 1980s, is a firm... Read more »

August 2

• Somalia: Dutch Cannot Send Back Westernized Somali Asylum-Seeker

  The Netherlands' highest legal body has ruled that the Dutch government must take into consideration how Westernized asylum-seekers are when evaluating their asylum requests. It... Read more »

July 31

• Somalia: Somali Refugees in the Netherlands Protest

  Dozens of Somali refugees spent last night on the pavement outside the office of the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) in the southern Dutch city of Den Bosch. The group... Read more »

• Kenya: A Newsletter to Lighten Up Life in Dadaab [interview]

  Every week, six pages' worth of news articles and short works of fiction are published in Somali and shared with residents of camp Dadaab in eastern Kenya. Named for the 500,000... Read more »

June 14

• Somalia: Dutch Parliament - More Troops Fighting Somali Pirates

  Dutch parliament has agreed to expand involvement in the NATO operation Ocean Shield, targeting piracy in Somali waters. But ships wanting to hire private security forces to give... Read more »

June 3

• Somalia: Dutch MPs Question Failed Asylum Seekers' Fate

  It remains uncertain if a group of failed Somali asylum seekers in the Netherlands will have to return to Somalia. That's the conclusion of a debate yesterday in Dutch Parliament,... Read more »

May 21

• Somalia: Dutch Captain Leading EU Anti-Piracy Mission

  "They destroyed our equipment - reduced it to ashes. This was one of our key supply centres," admits self-confessed pirate commander Bile Hussein. He was speaking to an AP reporter... Read more »

May 16

• Somalia: Troops - Toughen Up to Stay True to Whom? [analysis]

  Hundreds of young Somalis completed military training in Uganda last week. The recruits are now bound for home, scheduled to join local armed forces in an ongoing struggle against... Read more »

May 11

• Somalia: Shots Fired Off Country Coast Miss Dutch Helicopter

  Shots fired off the coast of Somalia on Thursday missed hitting a Royal Netherlands Navy helicopter. Read more »

May 1

• Somalia: Tackling Pirates on Land and Sea Intensifies [analysis]

  In the wake of recent European Union agreements, the Netherlands will intensify its anti-piracy patrols off the Somali coast. The EU hopes to get a grip on the problem by tackling... Read more »

• East Africa: Dutch Anti-Piracy Policy to Set Foot On Somali Soil

  In line with European decisions, the Netherlands will intensify its anti-piracy policy off the Somali coast. The EU hopes to get a grip on the problem by tackling pirate munity on... Read more »

March 5

• Somalia: Magan Tahir Bounces Back Like His Table Tennis Ball

  It is a story about hope, the story a young Somali boy who was disabled in an explosion and fled his war-torn country for a place he didn't like at first. Magan Tahir, a... Read more »

February 13

• Somalia: Al-Shabaab Joined Al-Qaeda, but Military Pressure Continues

  The Somali based militant group Al-Shabaab has been recognized by the Al-Qaeda network's chief Ayman al-Zawahiri as an official affiliate. Read more »

January 31

• Somalia: Director of Radio Station Shot Dead - Witnesses

  Gunmen on Saturday shot dead the director of a major Somali radio station in front of his home in Mogadishu, colleagues and witnesses said. Read more »

• Somalia: Islamist Rebels Ban International Red Cross

  Somalia's Islamist Shebab rebels on Monday banned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ordering it to close its emergency relief operations in the war-torn regions... Read more »

January 26

• Somalia: Navy Seals Rescue Aid Workers Held in Nation

  US commandos swooped into lawless Somalia and rescued two Western aid workers held for three months by armed pirates in a daring pre-dawn raid approved by President Barack Obama. Read more »

January 25

• Somalia: Special Forces Free U.S., Danish Aid Workers

  Special forces launched a pre-dawn raid to rescue two aid workers, an American woman and a Danish man, kidnapped three months ago in Somalia by gunmen, local security officials... Read more »

January 24

• Somalia: Pirates 'Behind Kidnap of Foreign Hostage'

  Pirates are behind the kidnapping of a foreign hostage in central Somalia, a local official said Sunday, with witnesses reporting he had been whisked off to an inaccessible jungle... Read more »

January 23

• Somalia: Kenya Battles Islamist Militants in South

  Kenyan troops clashed with Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shebab militants in southern Somalia, the latest attack in a three-month long push forward against insurgent bases, officials... Read more »