Kenya, Ethiopia may attack Somalia alshabaab rebels
Listen Isiolo, Kenya (Alshahid) – Kenyan and Ethiopian troops could attack Somali rebel group al Shabaab inside the Horn of Africa nation following the rebels’ latest threat to strike at Kenya, security sources said on Monday. The al Shabaab group, which claims ties to al Qaeda and has been waging a four-year insurgency against Somalia [...]
UN council OKs big increase in AU Somalia force
Listen United Nations (Alshahid) – The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday authorized a boost in the African Union’s peacekeeping force in Somalia from 8,000 to 12,000 troops to shore up the country’s government against Islamist insurgents. The force, known as AMISOM, currently consists of soldiers from Uganda and Burundi. Uganda is expected to provide the [...]
Somalia govt executes soldier as alShabaab trains 300 militants
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) -A soldier with Somalia’s weak Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was executed on Tuesday in Mogadishu after being convicted of killing another solider, while Al Shabaab insurgents announced completion of militant training for 300 insurgents in Baidoa, Radio Garowe reports. TFG Military Court chief judge, Hassan M. Hussein, and TFG senior army commander [...]
Will Somalia President Sharif’s PM choice antagonize Puntland?
Listen By Hanad Haidar: One of Somalia’s newspapers has reported that H.E. Sharif Sheikh Ahmed will appoint a new Prime Minister this week. According to Mogadishu Times, in article dated 6 October 2010, the new Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) will be Mr. Saa’id Farah “Shirdon” – a relatively unknown politician from [...]
Time holds all the answers – even to Somalia and the colonial project
Listen By KALUNDI SERUMAGA: “The one who talks to you like he hates you, likes you, and the one who talks to you like he likes you, hates you.” So goes a proverb from western Uganda that the United States and Nato may do well to reflect on, as they walk with the AU even [...]
Kenya begins security operations nabs 30 Ethiopians next target Eastleigh Somalis
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – After the Kampala terrorist attacks by Somali Alshabab group Kenya security officers have started major security operations targeting aliens with the first conducted in Nairobi on Wednesday night where 30 Ethiopians were arrested. “The operation was conducted in Pangani area where 30 Ethiopian aliens were arrested. They will appear in court [...]
Uganda triple Bomb blast death toll rises to 64
Listen Kampala (Alshahid) – Triple bomb blasts rocked three establishments in Uganda’s capital late Sunday, a police official said Monday, in an attack targeting crowds that gathered to watch the final World Cup soccer match. By Monday morning, the death toll from the three nearly simultaneous explosions had risen to 64, according to police spokeswoman [...]
Somali rebels protest against presence of foreign troops in the country
Listen Kampala (Alshahid) – Hundreds of Somalis in Mogadishu on Monday took to the streets to protest against continued presence of foreign forces in the country. “The Al Shabaab organized those demonstrators to show the world that Mogadishu is melting, which is not the case,” Maj. Barigye Ba-Hoku, the AMISOM spokesman, said by phone from [...]
Somalia government displays bodies of killed al Shabaab militias
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) — At least 12 people, most of them, al Shabaab fighters were killed in a fierce battle with government forces at Dharkeynley district in Mogadishu early on Friday. Somali government soldiers later displayed bodies of al Shabaab militants who were killed in the Friday clash, witnesses said on Saturday. The battle began [...]
Somalia: Looming clash as Hizbul Islam faction defects to Al-Shabaab
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) – Following reports that an important Hizbul Islam faction in southern Somalia had broken away from the group and joined forces with al Qaeda-linked rival AlShabab rebels, the leader of Somalia’s Hizbul Islam rebels Sheikh Dahir Aweys has said the defectors were few individuals who do not represent his group at any [...]