An Islamist group, Hizbul Islam, has rejoined the struggle against the Transitional Federal Government and the African Union peacekeepers in Somalia (Amisom).
The United Nations refugee agency today called on Saudi Arabia to halt deportations of Somali refugees and asylum-seekers to the conflict-stricken capital, Mogadishu, where dozens of civilians were killed in escalating clashes this week.
Military movements between the transitional government of Somalia and Harakat Al-Shabab Mujahideen are continuing in parts of Beledweyn town of Hiran region in central Somalia as the people started displacing from their houses in the town on Thursday morning.
Sheik Ali Mohamud Raghe better known as (Sheik Ali Dere), the spokesman of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen held press conference for the journalists in Mogadishu and denied involvement in fighting that continued in Puntland recently.
The July 11 World Cup bombings in Kampala can be understood as a calculated risk taken by Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahideen (H.S.M.), the transnational revolutionary Islamist group that seeks to establish an emirate in Somalia, and is fighting a war for control against the country's internationally recognized and ineffectual Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.), which exists only by virtue of the ...
The British government has Friday called the deployment of the pledged AU troops to Somalia as soon as possible to restore the peace and security of Somalia
Henry Bellingham, the UK's minister for Africa has Thursday gave an exclusive interview to Shabelle Media Network in Nairobi, Kenya and talked more on Somali matters and how the country could get solution.
Somalia's insurgent group Al Shabaab has denied connection to a July 26 battle near Puntland's port city of Bossaso, where Puntland troops killed 13 militants and captured many after Galgala militants attacked an army post, Radio Garowe reports.
Amisom spokesperson Maj. Ba-Hoku Barigye yesterday said the force had killed scores of al Shabaab fighters in fresh fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Top US diplomat for Africa, Ambassador Johnnie Carson, at a press conference in Kampala on Tuesday, outlined Washington's key involvement and strategies in Africa.
In recent years, the civilian population in Mogadishu has been caught in the midst of fighting between government forces supported by the African Union peacekeeping force (Amisom) troops, and extremists intending to destroy the Somali reconciliation effort.
Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Raghe alias Sheikh Ali Dhere, the spokesman of al Shabaab, the radical Islamist group vehemently opposing the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia, sneered at the outcome of the African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda.
Nine more victims of the July 11 twin bomb blasts in Kampala have, in the past two weeks, succumbed to the injuries. This brings the death toll up to 85 from 76.
JULY was a fruitful month militarily for peacekeepers and Somali government forces, a spokesman said.
At least 21 people have been killed and 45 others injured in gun battle and mortars exchanged by Somali government troops backed by AMISOM and Al-Shabaab extremist militias since Tuesday, Radio Garowe reports.
The new elected president of Somalia's breakaway republic of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud (Silanyo) named on Wednesday new Cabinet ministers for his government, Radio Garowe reports
Just as Spain was seizing victory in the 2010 World Cup, bomb blasts ripped through Kampala, Uganda, injuring soccer fans gathered to watch the final game of the first World Cup hosted in Africa. Over 70 people were killed and numerous more were injured.
Early this morning, 29 July, the Maltese flagged merchant vessel MV FRIGIA was released.
Kenya has formally reached out to Britain for "support" in fighting Somalia's al Shabaab militia and restoring peace in the war-torn country.
A joint security team yesterday interrogated 22 suspects, most of them Somalis, arrested from Soroti in connection with the July 11 bomb attacks in Kampala.
In rencent years, the civilian population in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, has been caught in the fighting between government forces, supported by troops from the African Union peacekeeping force (AMISOM), and extremists aiming to destroy the Somali reconciliation effort.
WHILE piracy may overshadow many more critical challenges facing Africa's maritime sector, the aggression and increasing frequency of the attacks make it hard to ignore.
At least 17 civilians were killed in clashes between Islamist insurgents and Somali government troops in Mogadishu. Somalia's embattled government welcomes the African Union's decision to send more troops to Mogadishu
Negotiating a swift end to a conflict in the east that has displaced thousands of civilians in recent weeks should be a top priority for Somaliland's new president if a much larger crisis is to be averted, say analysts.
The decision by African Union leaders to adopt an earlier request by the Inter-Governmental Authority of Development to send 2,000 more troops to Somali, is a better option than war.
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