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In late October, the Puntland government arrested five men of Ogadeni origin. These men came to Puntland using Somali travel documents provided by Somali authorities in Yemen.
The transitional federal government president Sharif Sheik Ahmed has held press conference in Mogadishu on Friday and said that he was very sorry for the misunderstanding between the TFG, Puntland and Ahlu Sunna.
In response to reports that Kenya is recruiting youth to go and fight Somalia war, a Muslim clergy has cautioned Muslim youth not to allow themselves to be drawn by financial incentives and accept to undertake mercenary work outside the country.
UGANDA is to host a programme in which 2,000 Somalia security personnel will be trained by European Union (EU) soldiers.
The president of Somalia's Puntland State has said that his government will play major role in the formation of more regional states that would help in stabilizing the Horn of African nation.
A wheat flour shortage looms as Somali pirates hit closer home -- our dinner tables.
Some lawmakers have called on the embattled President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to resign over incompetence and making several foreign trips since his election.
Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Si'ad known as (Inda'adde), the minister of state of the transitional government for the defense ministry has held press conference through the telephone in Kampala on Thursday and apologized the Islamic clerics of Ahlu sunna Waljama'a for the TFG president's statement on the clerics recently.
At least 5 people have been wounded in Galka'o town overnight after big blast convulsed in north of the town in Mudug region, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Escalating violence in the Somali town of Galkayo, Mudug region, is creating a climate of fear, which in turn has adversely affected livelihoods, residents say.
At least two government soldiers have been killed and more than five others have been wounded in a fire exchange between the transitional government troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
The president of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland Mr. Abdirahman Mohamed Farole has Thursday said that he was very sorry for the misunderstand between him and TFG president Sharif Sheik Ahmed in their last meeting in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
Residents of a coastal town in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland saved the crew of a fishing boat when they foiled an attempt by pirates, who had captured the boat, to sail away.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia was not only a criminal activity, but it was, first of all, a very successful business, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Political Office there told the Security Council today.
Piracy off Somalia's coast is a symptom of wider problems ashore, and any strategy to tackle it must also deal with its root causes and strengthen regional capacity, the United Nations envoy to the country warned today.
An unnamed woman was stoned to death at Eel-boon in Wajid district, 330 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu, on Wednesday. She was sentenced by an Islamic court after she was found guilty of adultery.
The Ethiopian government has dismissed claims by Ogaden rebels to have captured seven towns in the oil rich Somali region located in south eastern of Ethiopia.
Colossal amounts of money received by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean are being used to buy houses and land in Nairobi, thus distorting the property market.
At least 4 people are reportedly killed and 5 others including a journalist are injured in heavy clashes between insurgents and Somali government forces backed by African Union troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said.
Two Somali correspondents for international media outlets were injured in separate shootings, one in the northeast semi-autonomous region of Puntland, and the other in the capital, Mogadishu, according to local journalists and news reports.
Heavy clash between the Somali pirates has flared up in Harar - dere town, a stronghold of Somali pirates in the Mudug region, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
The Islamic clerics of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a have ordered the people in Abudwaq district in central Somalia not to watch films, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
The Transitional Federal Government officials have said that they captured several people charging that they were creating insecurity situations in the Somali capital Mogadishu, official told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
In accordance with paragraph 26 of resolution 1844 (2008) on Somalia, the Security Council conducted a review of the measures set out in paragraphs 1, 3 and 7 of that resolution. The members of the Security Council have also received a briefing from Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico, Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) concerning Somalia.
Somalia's Ahlu Sunnah Wal-Jama has condemned remarks made by Somali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, terming it as insult to the group.
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