Abdullahi Yusuf News

For nearly 20 years, the sovereign state of Somalia has existed without a permanent government.

From Garoweonline.com Somalia Editorial: Sheikh Sharif's weakness will be his ultimate demise Sep 29, 2009 - 11:20:42 PM SUNDAY EDITORIAL Sheikh Sharif's character weakness poses a grave threat to the international community's financial and political backing, which could backfire with disastrous effect.

The number of suicide bombings in Somalia has increased during the last three years as a result of an initial 2006 attack, an expert says.

With or without an international mandate, Ethiopian forces have entered Somali territory to back up a fast-failing Somali government.

VIS HIS PREDECESSOR PROF ALI GEDI AFTER the failure of 13 reconciliation conferences, the Nairobi reconciliation conference which took two years subsequently produced six fatally important reports which were the road map for the Transitional Federal institutions for the Somali republic.

Religious minority groups in Indonesia are calling for guarantee of security, respect for basic rights, and civil liberties during the electoral campaign leading up to elections scheduled for July 8, in the most populated Islamic nation in the world.

Al-Shabab militiamen fire on Somali government troops in the streets of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, 22 May 2009 Somalia's al-Qaida-linked militant group has denounced the extension of the U.N. Security Council mandate for African Union troops to stay in Somalia.