Somalia:   Fierce Fighting Occurs in Bakool Region, 10 Killed

Garowe Online, 27 May 2014

The Somali Federal Government troops aided by Ethiopian peacekeepers clashed with Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab fighters in Bakool region of southwestern Somalia, Garowe Online… Read more »

Somalia:   Presidential Pardon of Former Somali Official With Al-Shabaab Ties Creates Furore

Sabahi, 27 May 2014

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's decision to pardon former chief of the Somali Custodial Corps Abdi Mohamed Ismail, who was serving a life sentence after being found guilty of… Read more »

Kenya:   Somalis Used As Scapegoats in Counter-Terror Crackdown

CISA, 27 May 2014

Kenya's Somali community is being scapegoated in a counter-terror operation which has seen thousands subjected to arbitrary arrest, harassment, extortion, ill-treatment, forcible… Read more »

Somalia:   Alshabaab and New Police Fight

Radio Dalsan, 27 May 2014

There was a fighting which erupted at the border between Bakool Region and Ethiopian border , In that fighting which happed the wee hours of this morning, new police Alshabaab… Read more »

Somalia:   Intelligence Service Raids Home of Terror Chief Aweys, Laptop Seized

Garowe Online, 26 May 2014

Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) officers have raided a home housing former leader of the now defunct Hisbul Islam insurgents and Al Shabaab terror group… Read more »

Somalia:   Al Shabaab Clash With Somali Territorial Troops

Shabelle, 27 May 2014

According to news reports from Ato near the Ethopian/Somalia border, a fight between Somali trops and AL-Shabaab erupted there The Somali territorial government conducted search… Read more »