Somalia News

At least 23 Somalis, mostly civilians, were killed and more than fifty wounded in Mogadishu on Saturday in the latest clash between government troops and insurgents, medics said.

Extremist rebels in Somalia said Friday they will continue attacking African Union peacekeepers, after fighting this week killed more than 20 people and left hospitals so crowded that patients were being treated in tents.

Somalia's Islamist rebels threatened on Tuesday to attack Ethiopia after repeated witness reports that Ethiopian troops were back in the chaotic Horn of Africa country they withdrew from in January.

The al Shabaab insurgents, who have links to al Qaeda and include foreign Islamists among their ranks, control most of the south of Somlia and all but a few blocks of the capital after stepping up their attacks in the last two months.

Hardline Islamist militiamen in Somalia have stoned to death a man accused of raping and murdering a woman.

At least five people were killed and 14 others wounded Sunday in the Somali capital Mogadishu after suspected insurgents targeted the presidential compound with mortars and government forces responded with artillery fire, Radio Garowe reports.

African crises escalate as AU leaders meet - 1.4 million homeless so far this year in DRC, Sudan and Somalia 01 Jul 2009 05:35:00 GMT Source: Oxfam GB - UK Oxfam Website: http:/ / www.oxfam.org.uk Five people forced to flee every minute of 2009 in DRC, Sudan and Somalia, says Oxfam --------- Over 1.4 million people have been forced to flee their ...

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.

Sheikh Ahmed accused hardline Al Shabaab Islamist rebels yesterday of forcing children to fight in battles to oust his government in the Horn of Africa country.

A Somali radical Islamic insurgent says weapons and ammunition the United States recently supplied to Somalia's embattled government will only increase violence in the war-wracked country.

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Eritrea during the weekend criticized the decision of the US Administration provide weapons to Somalia's beleaguered government in a first visible support to Mogadishu from Washington.

NEW YORK: An Iranian woman is framed for adultery, then bound, gagged and buried to her waist in dirt before being stoned to death.

The Obama administration's recent move to increase aid to Somalia takes aim at Islamic extremists' safe havens, pouring resources into a government that analysts say may not be worth salvaging.Resolving the Somalia dilemma demands that the U.S. walk a delicate line - politically and militarily.Haunted by a disastrous 1993 U.S. military assault into ...

In an appalling incident in the Somalian capital, Mogadishu, pro-Al Queda insurgents on Thursday used a machete to slice off a hand and a foot from each of four men accused of stealing mobile phones and guns.

Updated 1 hr 50 min ago Geneva, Friday Spiralling violence in Somalia's capital Mogadishu is taking a heavy toll on civilians, with more than 250 killed and 160,000 forced to flee their homes over the past seven weeks, aid agencies said.

The radical Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said on Wednesday that his forces would fight any foreign troops coming to aid the Somali government, reiterating his call for the African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu to leave.

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

Sources close to Western embassies in Nairobi confirmed news reports that Ethiopian troops have taken positions in the Central Somali town of Beledweyne, and that Ethiopian troops were also active in the Gelgadud region north of the capital of Mogadishu. Kenyan forces, too, are reportedly amassing along the Somali border as a defensive measure, in what Kenya's foreign minister described in a press conference as a matter of "national security."

The U.S. government has provided about 40 tons of weapons and ammunition to Somalia's embattled government in the past six weeks to help it fight Islamist insurgents, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

The bloody conflict in Somalia has created the world's largest refugee camp, with 500 hungry and exhausted refugees pouring into this wind-swept camp in neighbouring Kenya every day, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.