The Raging Battle for Mogadishu (part #253?), and the U.S. role in supporting an ever-changing government-in-progress in Somalia reminds us yet again how incredibly dynamic war can be….
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The Raging Battle for Mogadishu (part #253?), and the U.S. role in supporting an ever-changing government-in-progress in Somalia reminds us yet again how incredibly dynamic war can be….
For years, many Somalis have seen the Al Shabab “Youth” insurgent force, like the Islamic Courts Union it once fought for, as the least bad option for opposing warlordism and bringing back an…
HARGEISA , 3 March 2010 (IRIN) - Around 1,000 families have been displaced by flooding after heavy rains in an area straddling the border between Ethiopia and the self-declared independent republic of Somaliland, according to officials.
“The floods occurred in the last 24 hours. About 1,000 families were displaced, and they are with their relatives in other parts of Allaybaday and Tog-wajale districts in Gabiley region,” regional governor Said Mohamed Ahmed Aw Abdi, known as Habib, told IRIN on 3 March.
Le 21 janvier 2010 est sorti le nouveau rapport d’Amnesty International, intitulé « Somalie : Reexaminer les conditions de l’aide internationale à destination de l’armée et de la…
Bosasso is a dusty port town in the Puntland State of Somalia. Farming is virtually impossible across this part of the African Horn, so the economy is focused on camel and goat herding,…
Right now fighting in south and central Somalia is displacing tens of thousands of people, the insurgency has split again, and the country is long from securing peace and rebuilding. However,…
Somalia has enough troubles: very little farmable soil, an increase in the length and strength of seasonal droughts, tsunami aftermath, sea theft, low resources for health and education,…
The Times 23/12/09
By Martin Fletcher
Tears filled Abdul Kadir Ali’s eyes as he sat in a rundown community centre in Acton, West London, and told of his sister’s life and untimely death.
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It has been widely reported that various branches of the UK government are now interested in monitoring the Somali community, fearing that they may comrpise a fifth column in mainstream society….
I went to Somaliland, the north western part of Somalia, back in November this year. Going across this arrid region, I witnessed the droughts that are now destroying a centuries-old way of life, that…
