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Duho Artan, a Somali mother, one of the parents whose children are detained in Libyan jails has Friday requested from the both Libya and Somali government to release their children and return to their country.
Calm has returned to Karan and Hwl-wadag district in the Somali capital Mogadishu where yesterday's clashes killed more in the capital.
Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen court has carried out amputation on a man for stealing cow in Gandabe village near Merka town in Lower Shabelle region, witnesses and officials said on Friday.
At least 7 people have been killed and more than 30 others have been injured after clashes between the government soldiers and the Islamist forces started in the north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Few seem to notice but what is happening in Somalia could jeopardise the stability and security of the whole region. Al Shabaab, an Islamist youth group, have overrun most of southern Somalia and are just a few blocks away from taking the capital Mogadishu.
A US navy officer told the court on Thursday that the description of a small boat which allegedly tried to pirate a vessel matched the one he was informed about by the vessel's captain.
More Ethiopian troops with armed vehicles have reached near Beledweyn town in central Somalia as Ethiopia said that it does not plan to send troops into Somalia, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
The Islamic organization of Hisbul Islam in Gedo region has called for the government officials in Dolow town in Ethiopia to return back to the region, officials told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Gen. Abdisamad Ali Shire, the Puntland Vice President, said he is very happy to open the new Ministry building.
A magistrate's court in Mombasa has the authority to hear a piracy case against seven Somalis suspected of being pirates, a lawyer has said.
A magistrate's court in Mombasa has the jurisdiction to hear a piracy case against seven suspected Somali pirates.
The European Union has issued a warning to the Somalia insurgents asking them to stop the raging conflict.
David Foran, a foreign service officer with the State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, answered questions in a June 30 CO.NX webchat on fighting naval piracy in the 21st century.
Events featuring public speeches, poetry and dance were held in different regions of the country. But in many major towns, there were no celebrations at all.
Sharif Safi Robe, a Somali MP has died in Medina hospital in south of the Somali capital Mogadishu overnight, official told Shabelle radio On Wednesday.
Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Si'ad known as (Inda Adde), a minister of state for the defense affairs of the transitional government has harshly condemned the Islamist forces against the TFG on Wednesday replying to Osama Bin Laden's statement in the past.
The Islamic administration of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen in Middle Shabelle region has ordered the women in Jowhar town 90 kilometers north of the Somali capital Mogadishu to take veil, officials said on Wednesday.
More than 170,000 people have been displaced from the Somali capital, Mogadishu, since early May when fresh fighting broke out began between Government forces and insurgents, the United Nations humanitarian wing reported today.
The deputy leader of the Islamist coalition ruling Kismayu, Sheikh Abdulgani Mohamed Yusuf, has declared war on Somalia's neighbours.
The authorities in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland have urged the international community to come to its aid to avert severe food shortages and hunger due to a prolonged drought in the region.
At least two people, one of them a government soldier have been killed and eight others have been injured in a separate explosions targeted to a government soldiers in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.
Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein, the Al Shabaab chief in Mogadishu, showed reporters the expired foods including rice and flour bags.
IN THE LAST FEW DAYS, SOME Kenyans have been advocating that our military should buttress Somalia's Transitional Federal Government which is under siege from militant Islamist insurgents led by Al-Shabaab.
MANY JOURNALISTS SEEM to support the idea of Kenya sending its armed forces to Somalia to fight the Al-Shabaab.
I am amazed at the level of ignorance displayed on military issues and matters regarding war.
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