Somalia

  • Jul 13, 2009
  • 1 min read

SOMALIA: Government/AU push back against insurgents

Government forces and African Union (AU) peacekeepers clashed with insurgents in Mogadishu during...

Somalia
  • Jul 3, 2009
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AFRICA: African Union granted increased powers

African heads of state yesterday approved in principle plans to augment the powers of the...

  • Jun 26, 2009
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SOMALIA: US acts against dangerous militant gains

US officials are considering bolstering support for Somalia's beleaguered transitional federal...

Somalia
  • Jun 25, 2009
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AFRICA: SEACOM delays

Piracy off the coast of Somalia will delay the launch of the SEACOM submarine cable project,...

  • Jun 18, 2009
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SOMALIA: Suicide bombing kills security minister

Internal Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden was one of ten people killed today in suicide bombing...

Somalia
  • Jun 12, 2009
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NATO/HORN/KOSOVO: Ministers face pirates and Afghans

NATO will keep an anti-piracy flotilla off the Horn of Africa, alliance defence ministers said...

Nato
  • Jun 4, 2009
  • 7 min read

SOMALIA: Hardline assault threatens Djibouti process

Government fighters launched a counter-offensive on June 2 against hardline Islamist militant...

Somalia
  • May 29, 2009
  • 2 min read

SOMALIA: Kismayo attack may signal al-Shabaab pressure

The radical Islamist militant group al-Shabaab today imposed a dust-to-dawn curfew in Kismayo,...

Somalia