Addis Ababa (Alshahid) – Members of the security council of African Union who held a meeting at the AU headquarters Addis Ababa has today agreed upon a proposal by the Ugandan government which demanded an immediate land and sea embargo on territories under the control of Islamist militias in Somalia.
In a press statement released today, [...]
Sana’a (Alshahid) – The Interior Ministry said it ordered the Coastguard and security authorities in the coastal provinces to close main waterways in front of African sneakers into Yemeni lands from the Horn of Africa, the state run almoatmer.ner has reported.
This measure comes within the framework of the Yemen efforts to ban terrorist elements in [...]
Khartoum (Alshahid) – Sudanese army spokesman has denied allegations published in a press report that members of the Iranian revolutionary guard train Hamas forces on firing ground- to- ground missiles in the country.
According to the report based on intelligence by western body, 14 elements from Hamas were trained on firing ground –to- ground missiles in [...]
Mogadishu (Alshahid) – Rival Somali pirate gangs fired shots at each other on Sunday in a dispute over how to split any ransom for a hijacked Greek-flagged oil tanker with two million barrels of crude oil aboard.
According to a Reuters report, Pirates from the semi-autonomous northern region of Puntland, who seized the Maran Centaurus in [...]
Alshahid (Jeddah)- The 16th meeting of the International Contact Group on Somalia (ICG) was held under the chairmanship of the UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, on 17 December 2009 in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The meeting was opened by the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, and the Somali [...]
Nairobi (Alshahid) – Two foreign journalists who were held captive for more than a year were freed on Wednesday and flown to Nairobi, Somalis national security minister said n Thursday.
The pair was kidnapped in August 2008, while en route from Mogadishu to visit a refugee camp in Afgooye, was released overnight with their families reportedly [...]
Mogadishu (Alshahid) – The Arab League will not loose hope in bringing peace and tranquility between Somalia’s fragile U.N.-backed government and Islamist insurgents, but the rebels did not want to talk, it said on Saturday.
Ibrahim al-Shuwaymi, the Arab League’s ambassador in Somalia, said it had been trying to broker discussions between the government and the [...]
For decades, Ethiopia has been affected by famine and conflict. In 2009, there have been various reports of internal displacement resulting from conflicts and human rights violations perpetrated by the army and groups opposed to the government. It is difficult to establish the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) as neither the government nor any [...]
By: Mohamed Shairf *
The Department for communities and local government has issued a report summarising the conclusions of a research made on multifaceted aspects of the Somali community in England. The study was conducted by the Change Institute.
Here are the main conclusions drawn up by the report:
The Somali Community of the UK is one of [...]
A Roosevelt High School graduate, Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, has pleaded guilty in Minnesota to terrorism-related charges in connection with the disappearances of dozens of U.S. Somali youths, some of whom turned up fighting with suspected terrorists in Somalia and at least one of whom became a suicide bomber, according to court documents and interviews.
A Seattle [...]
