Hargeisa ? The authorities in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland have urged the international community to come to its aid to avert severe food shortages and hunger due to a prolonged drought in the region.
Mogadishu ? Duho Artan, a Somali mother, one of the parents whose children are detained in Libyan jails has Friday requested from the both Libya and Somali government to release their children and return to their country.
African leaders will consider a resolution Friday to give African Union peacekeepers in Somalia a mandate to do more than just defend themselves from attacks by hardline rebels.
Abdikadir Barmaj, the information director of the presidential palace read a press release which the Somali president issued saying that the president congratulated to his partner Osmail Omar Ghelle and all the population of Djibouti for the celebration of the freedom day pointing out that it is a great day for the people in Djibouti.
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Fighting in the Somali capital has killed 25 people over two days, leaving corpses in the streets of a city where a bloody insurgency is intensifying, doctors and witnesses said Thursday.
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Perhaps it is time for desperate measures. The aquatic weeds silting up the water holes are likely Typha. It does grow in Somaliland. Some of it may be contaminated with pollutants. Heavy metals are most to be feared. There is equipment available (at Kenyatta University and probably other places.
Heavy clashes between Somali government troops and hardline militia in the war-torn capital Mogadishu killed at least 15 civilians Friday, witnesses said.
Ethiopia on Wednesday said it will not send troops to Somalia, though a hardline Islamist militia fighting to topple the Somali government recently threatened to invade the neighbouring country.
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Extremist rebels in Somalia said Friday they will continue attacking African Union peacekeepers, after fighting this week killed more than 20 people and left hospitals so crowded that patients were being treated in tents.
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African leaders are considering a resolution to give African Union peacekeepers in Somalia a mandate to do more than just defend themselves from attacks.
A federal grand jury has indicted a group of Somali-Americans on terror-related charges after more than 20 young men from the Minneapolis area were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, according to two law enforcement sources.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP)--Ethiopia Wednesday said it won't send troops to Somalia, though a hardline Islamist militia fighting to topple the Somali government recently threatened to invade the neighboring country.
NAIROBI, Kenya - In a brazen show of power in Somalia's capital, Islamist rebels punished four men convicted of stealing cell phones and other items by cutting off a...
Source: IRIN Somalia has had no functioning government since January 1991, when former President Siad Barre was ousted. Since that time, fighting between Somali warlords, government forces and various alliances of Islamist insurgents has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Somalis and the displacement of hundreds of thousands.
