Somalia News

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 MOGADISHU: Pirates kidnapped four foreign tourists, including a woman and a child, who were sailing off the coast of Somalia's northern region of Puntland, officials said on Tuesday.

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Somalia faces a serious food crisis if no nation steps forward with naval ships to escort relief shipments through pirate-infested waters, the United Nations World Food Programme said today.

Killing of defenseless people was the only way to face the reality during Siyad Barre Regime.

Conflict in Somalia has killed 2,136 civilians so far this year, bringing the death toll since an Islamist-led insurgency began in early 2007 to 8,636, a local human rights group said on Thursday.

Nigeria has a battalion of approximately 800 soldiers ready to deploy to Somalia as part of an African Union peacekeeping force and could send more if needed, a military spokesperson said on Wednesday.

A German child who was kidnapped by Somali gunmen along with his parents and another European is suffering from a fever and needs medical help, a clan elder said Wednesday.

A German family of three and a French captain were kidnapped from a yacht off the Gulf of Aden, officials said Tuesday.

The chief of the UN refugee agency in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, has been kidnapped from his home by unknown gunmen, witnesses said Sunday.

Somali gunmen have kidnapped the local head of the U.N. refugee agency in Mogadishu in the latest abduction of aid workers in the lawless Horn of Africa nation, witnesses said on Sunday.

Somali Islamists attack Ethiopian base, kill 10 soldiers Friday, 20 June 2008 09:46 UK A mother and two children are among 25 people and 13 civilians, killed in fierce fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, ...

Overnight violence in Somalia pushed the death toll on Friday to 38 in the days since a peace deal was signed in Djibouti last week.

Exposure to the elements after heavy rains washed away shelters, and lack of adequate food, have hit many Somalis who fled the capital, Mogadishu, to seek refuge in the northern outskirts, local and civil ...

Somaliland is the unique and superlative democracy in the world. Somaliland is the youngest democracy in the world and need the world supportive attention.

Fighting between Islamist-led insurgents and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops has killed at least 17 people, residents said on Wednesday, underlining the lack of impact of a U.N.-brokered peace agreement.

Ayan Ali Hassan decided to leave Mogadishu when militiamen boarded her school bus and kidnapped two screaming boys.

After the people of Somaliland regained their independence on 18th May 1990, they passed through difficult times where the enemies plotted plans to fail the nationhood of the country; the enemies created chaos ...

MOGADISHU: At least two children in camps for displaced people in Somalia have died in the torrential rains which have pounded the region since the weekend, local elders said yesterday.

Violence in the Somali capital Mogadishu and elsewhere has increased dramatically since a U.N.-backed peace agreement was signed Monday in Djibouti between Somalia's transitional federal government and a ...

Gunmen have murdered a driver working for the UN's World Food Programme in southern Somalia, the humanitarian organisation said.