Vietnam is encouraged by the formal signing of the Djibouti Agreement between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Alliance for Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) on August 18, said a Vietnamese diplomat.
A high-level delegation from UK-based oil company Asante Oil arrived in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland on August 20, where they were welcomed by Ministry of Water and Minerals officials at Hargeisa's Egal International Airport.
Source: Reuters BOSASSO, Somalia, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Somali pirates have released an Omani ship they had held hostage for months, a senior government official said on Thursday. "The Omani ship held for six ...
Source: Reuters (Adds detail) BOSASSO, Somalia, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Somali pirates have released an Omani ship they had held hostage for months, a senior government official said on Thursday. "The Omani ship ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP)--Two civilans were killed when Islamist rebels attacked an Ethiopian military base in the south of the Somali capital Mogadishu Wednesday, witnesses said.
The hunt continued Wednesday for a Canadian journalist kidnapped in Somalia on Saturday along with an Australian photographer, their Somali fixer and a driver.
Ethiopia's military commitment to Somalia is not open-ended, and it has to balance its responsibilities in Mogadishu with domestic political priorities, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said in an interview published Thursday.
A spokesman for Somalia's al Shabaab insurgent group has rejected a peace agreement signed between the country's interim government and the opposition Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS).
The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed the news that the head of its office in Somalia has been released today unharmed after two months in captivity in the war-torn Horn of Africa country.
NAIROBI, Aug 28 (Bernama) -- The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has welcomed the release of the head of the agency's office in Somalia after two months of captivity in the war-torn Horn of Africa country, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
A small plane carrying Qat, mildnarcotic leaves, crash-landed in an airstrip near Somalia's capital of Mogadishu Tuesday after it was shot at several times as it tried to land in airport in the southern Somali town of Kismayo, witnesses and local media reports said. Qat dealers in k50 airstrip, where the plane landed, said that there were no casualties but several shots were on the body of the ...
Kidnappers freed the head of the U.N. refugee agency's office in Somalia on Wednesday but rising insecurity forced Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to close a clinic in Mogadishu that provided essential health care to hundreds of women and children.
Two civilians were killed when Islamist rebels attacked an Ethiopian military base in the south of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, witnesses said.
Somali president Abdullahi Yusuf, prime minister Nor Adde and the speaker of the parliament Sheikh Aden Mohamed Nor Madobe have Wednesday touched down at the airport of Baidoa town the temporary seat of Somali parliament from Addis Ababa where they have been holding squaring off talks officials said.
Somali kidnappers freed the United Nations high commissioner for refugees' agency representative in Mogadishu who had been held hostage in the chaotic Horn of Africa country since July, officials said on Tuesday.
Somali Islamists attacked the residence of the deputy commander of Dhankerley district in Mogadishu on Wednesday night, sparking fierce exchanges with government forces were guarding at the house, witnesses said.
Associated Press - August 28, 2008 4:53 AM ET MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - The head of the U.N. refugee agency's office in Somalia says kidnappers have released him from captivity after more than...
