Tag: Somali
Somali president names new army chief in security services revamp
MOGADISHU: Somalia on Thursday named a new military supreme commander, a deputy head of intelligence services and ahead of presidential security as part of...
Somali sacks Mogadishu mayor, names replacement
KAMPALA: Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi sacked the mayor of the capital Mogadishu and appointed his information minister to replace him on Sunday.
The president, in...
Thai authorities should release Pakistani, Somali asylum seekers: rights group
BANGKOK: Thai authorities should release 35 Pakistani and Somali asylum seekers arrested in recent raids, a rights group said Monday, slamming arrests that swept up...
Al Shabaab militants attack Somali army base, say dozens dead
Al Shabaab and government forces battled for control of a remote army base in Somalia on Friday, after fighters from the militant group said...
Somali al Shabaab militants use Donald Trump in recruiting film
Somalia's militant group al Shabaab has released a recruitment film in the form of a documentary about racial injustice in the United States featuring...
Somali prime minister voted out of office by lawmakers
Members of parliament voted Somalia's prime minister out of office on Saturday for the second time in a year, a move Western donors had...
Bombs and gun battle kill at least 16 in Somali capital
At least 16 people were killed as two car bombs exploded outside the law courts in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and gunmen stormed the building...
Deadly car bomb rocks Somali capital
At least eight people have been killed by a car bomb claimed by al-Shabab in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police have said. Monday's attack targeted...
Suicide blast targets Somali security forces
It is believed that many of those killed or wounded in Tuesday’s bombing in Mogadishu were soldiers or police. “I saw the dead bodies...
France confirms failed Somali hostage rescue
A French hostage kidnapped in Somalia is believed to have been killed during a failed rescue operation, the French defence ministry says. A French...
43 Indian sailors from six ships being held hostage by Somali...
The plight of 43 Indian sailors held hostage by Somali pirates on six ships has reached the government's doorstep, Indian media reported on Tuesday....
Somali comedian who poked fun at Islamists shot dead
Gunmen assassinated a well-known comedian and musician who poked fun at Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents in the Somali capital, police and colleagues said Tuesday,...
African Union, Somali troops capture Islamist-held town
African Union troops alongside Somali forces seized the formerly Islamist-held town of Wanla Weyn on Sunday, the latest loss for the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab fighters,...
Shebab threaten to kill Somali lawmakers ‘one-by-one’
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab threatened Monday to kill all the country’s new lawmakers, saying that an MP killed at the weekend in Mogadishu was...
Shebab threaten to kill Somali lawmakers: Shebab official
Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shebab threatened Monday to kill all the country's new lawmakers, saying that an MP killed at the weekend in Mogadishu was...
Outsider Hassan Mohamud wins Somali presidential race
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, a 56-year-old university lecturer chosen by lawmakers Monday as Somalia's new president, is something of an unknown quantity.
"We don't know much...
Somali athletes defeat hardship for shot at glory
Running from war, dodging bullets and defying Al-Qaeda linked Islamist insurgents who ordered them stop: Somalia's determined Olympic hopefuls have overcome challenges few other...
