Excellencies, distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen. OurDjiboutimeeting here at the ICG has been a success and with all your assistance and contributions, the final outcome has exceeded our expectations. I thank you all for that. I also commend UNPOS leadership and staff for their hard work and dedication and especially for the innovative working group [...]
At least 26 people have been killed and four more sustained serious injuries in a multiple road accident involving a lorry, a matatu and boda bodamotorcycles along the Kisumu – Kakamega highway on Friday night. According to an eye witness, a speeding lorry from Kakamega rammed into a stationery matatu, which had been flagged down by [...]
The international community has shown renewed interest on Somalia following improved security in the country that has been at war since the overthrow of Siad Barre in 1991. Tired of the persistent insecurity in the country that has also posed a threat to peace globally, a number of nations and organisations now want to take [...]
This paper most probably and most doubtlessly has not been subjected to peer review. The “data” presented and the inferences from the “data” are fundamentally flowed, deficient and do not meet the lowest standards of intellectual integrity(1). The response to this paper from the “Ministry of Puntland” was baffling and different, too. Firstly, The satellite [...]
(Reuters) – Britain appointed its first ambassador to Somalia for 21 years on Thursday during a visit to the capital of the anarchic Horn of Africa nation by Foreign Secretary William Hague. It was the first visit to Mogadishu by a British foreign minister since 1992 and comes ahead of a conference in London this [...]
A key town in southern Somalia has been captured by Kenyan troops and government forces from Islamist militants, Kenya’s army says. Badhadhe – some 180km south of Kismayo – fell after heavy fighting, according to local residents. The fall of the inland town is a major loss to al-Shabab because it cuts off their main [...]
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A producer at a Somali radio station says gunmen shot dead the station’s director in the chaotic capital, Mogadishu. Mu’awiye Ahmed Mudey, a producer at Shabelle radio, said unidentified gunmen killed Hassan Osman Abdi on Saturday. He was on his way home. The 29-year-old father of three had worked at the station [...]
President Barack Obama said Thursday his role as a dad of two daughters offered him an inkling of the agony endured by the father of a US aid worker freed in a daring US commando raid in Somalia. Obama ordered the clandestine Navy SEALs swoop which Tuesday freed American Jessica Buchanan and Danish national Poul [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Somalia’s numerous problems, from piracy to humanitarian suffering to receiving money from overseas immigrants, are the subject of a two-day conference at Ohio State University. The previously scheduled conference comes just days after U.S. special forces rescued two hostages inside Somalia and killed nine captors in the process. The Somalia at [...]
n a daring nighttime raid Tuesday, U.S. Navy SEALs rescued two hostages, including one American, who were being held by kidnappers in Somalia, U.S. officials tell NBC News. American Jessica Buchanan, 32, and a 60-year-old Dane, Poul Thisted, were working for a Danish relief organization in northern Somalia when they were kidnapped last October. [...]