The mayor of the Somali capital Mogadishu has issued a warning to resident’s to vacate the city amidst fierce battles between government forces and insurgents. According to reports coming out of the country, more than 50 people have been killed in three days of Islamist insurgent attacks. The Mayor, Abdurisaq Mohamed Nor said the long-anticipated [...]

Nairobi, Kenya 11th March,2010 … World Food Programme (WFP) has said it would welcome an independent investigation into its food assistance operations in Somalia. At the same time, the agency said it would not engage in any new work with three transport contractors named in a report from the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia, [...]

Somali government forces and al Shabaab rebels in the north of the Somali capital Mogadishu have been engaged in intense fighting that has left 17 people dead and 65 wounded. This is according to a Somali human rights group. It has also been reported that Al-Shabaab beheaded two employees of a telecoms company who they [...]

Pirates in Somalia have captured a small Saudi tanker and its crew. The announcement came from the EU naval force in the Gulf of Aden. It is alleged that the tanker was travelling from Japan to Jeddah, and was empty of its cargo when pirates hijacked the vessel and took its crew captive.. The tanker, [...]

A Somali Islamist terror group on Sunday announced it will stop UN agency, World Food Programme (WFP) operations in Somalia. In a statement, Al Shabaab, an al Qaeda proxy said, “Effective as of today, all of WFP’s operations inside Somalia are terminated and the organization has been completely banned.” The group argued that it had received complaints [...]

The European Union will start training 2000 Somali troops in Uganda in May, a senior French army official said on Friday. Brigadier General Thierry Caspar-Fille-Lambie of the Djibouti based French forces said that the troops will be trained with the necessary military skills and know how to help in bringing the war torn Somalia back [...]

According to Somalia’s National Security Minister, Abdullahi Mohamed Ali, Somali government forces have killed a senior Jordanian al-Qaeda fighter. Amar Ibrahim was shot dead by forces loyal to the TFG. He was also a member of Al-Shabab a militant group linked with Al-Qaeda in the region. Amar Ibrahim was [...]

Somali pirates have on Thursday released a Taiwanese fishing trawler with its 12 crew members after the owners paid an estimated 220,000 US dollars, sources say. Ching Feng 168 with its Taiwanese captain Lin Hsin-sheng with his son and ten other mainland Chinese crew on April 20, demanding one million US dollars ransom. Sources say [...]

Somali pirates have on Wednesday released a UK-Owned Wheat Bulk Ship after it was seized on 22nd October 2009. A multi million ransom was said to have been paid according to a marine biologist from the central Somali coast. MV AL KHALIQ was seized on 22 Oct 2009, approximately 180 miles west of Seychelles. The [...]

President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed of Somalia has officially appointed his special envoy to the United States, a leading donor nation to Somalia, a presidential statement said on Sunday. The appointment of Abukar Addow Arman indicates that the Somali president is giving first priority to boosting the bilateral relationship between Somalia and the United States [...]

The Somali transitional federal government which controls only parts of the capital city on Friday called on pirates holding a British couple to release them unconditionally. Labour minister Mohamed Abdi Hayir said in a press conference in Mogadishu on Friday that the Somali government is overwhelmingly concerned over the current conditions of the British couple [...]