BBC
March 12, 2010
Mogadishu’s mayor has told residents to leave the Somali capital’s war zones, amid fierce battles with insurgents.
At least 50 people have been killed in three days of Islamist insurgent attacks, witnesses and officials say.
Mayor Abdurisaq Mohamed Nor said the long-anticipated government offensive may start soon, so residents should withdraw at least 2km [...]
Category Archives: Somalia
Mogadishu residents told to leave Somali capital
March 12, 2010 – 11:17 am
Israel eyes new alliances in Africa
March 12, 2010 – 8:23 am
UPI
March 9, 2010
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel is struggling to keep its diplomatic friends in Africa as Iran makes a determined effort to expand its influence there, making the continent an emerging theater in the Iran-Israel confrontation.
But these days the Jewish state has a new ally, Kenya, which wants Israeli help to fight the growing [...]
Death toll hits 54 from fighting in Somali capital
March 12, 2010 – 8:20 am
Reuters
March 11, 2010
Ibrahim Mohamed and Abdi Sheikh
MOGADISHU – The death toll from two days of fighting in Somalia’s capital between government forces and al Shabaab rebels has risen to 54, ambulance services said on Thursday as clashes subsided with both sides claiming successes.
The government urged residents to vacate the areas where fighting had taken place [...]
43 Somalis die in capital after 2 days of warfare
March 11, 2010 – 5:47 pm
AP
March 11, 2010
MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Heavy fighting between Somali insurgents and pro-government troops has killed at least 43 people over two days, as African Union peacekeepers used tanks to help the beleaguered government beat back an insurgent attack, officials said Thursday.
Militants attacking from the north on Wednesday reached to within a mile [...]
East Africa is next hot oil zone
March 11, 2010 – 5:43 pm
UPI
March 10, 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya — East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda’s
Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and even war-torn Somalia.
The region, until recently largely ignored by the energy industry, [...]
Somalia Food Aid Bypasses Needy, U.N. Study Says
March 10, 2010 – 7:02 pm
New York Times
March 9, 2010
JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and NEIL MacFARQUHAR
As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff members, according to a new Security Council report.
The report, which has not yet been made public but was [...]
Gulf of Aden pirates are having less success
March 10, 2010 – 6:57 pm
Los Angeles Times
March 10, 2010
Tony Perry
As shipping companies employ defensive tactics, the percentage of successful attacks falls slightly despite a 62% increase in the number of attempts in the Gulf of Aden in 2009.
A U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team heads to investigate a Somali skiff. (Elizabeth Allen / U.S. Navy)
Reporting from Manama, [...]
Gunmen kill senior Somali rebel leader: witnesses
March 10, 2010 – 7:25 am
Reuters
March 9, 2010
Abdi Sheikh and Abdi Guled
MOGADISHU – Unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior official of the Somali rebel group Hizbul Islam in Mogadishu’s main market on Tuesday, sparking several revenge killings, officials and witnesses said.
Hizbul Islam has often fought side-by-side with the more hardline al Shabaab rebels against government forces in a drive to [...]
Brought to U.S., Man Is Charged With Aiding Somali Terrorists
March 9, 2010 – 10:58 am
NY Times
March 8, 2010
COLIN MOYNIHAN
A man has been brought to the United States from Nigeria to face charges that he provided money to a Somali terrorist group — and that he received military training from that group.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment on Monday accusing the man, Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, of conspiring to provide [...]
Canada to ban militant Somali Islamist group
March 8, 2010 – 3:41 pm
Reuters
March 8, 2010
Canada will list al Shabaab — a Somali-based Islamist militant group which recently pledged allegiance to al Qaeda — as a “terrorist group” to prevent it from operating or seeking funds, the Canadian government said on Sunday.
Canada said it took action after it received reports from the Somali community that Al Shabaab has [...]
