Dowlad Islaam ah waqtigaan ma laga hirgalin karaa Soomaaliya?, Yaase u xilsaaran inuu ka hirgaliyo Soomaaliya nidaamkaas ? Qore: Yusuf MAY Somali Political Columnist mrsomalia@hotmail.com London DADKA Dalka Soomaaliya waxaa ku nool dad Muslim ah 100%, balse ...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - The African Union announced on Tuesday that it was extending the mandate of its force in Somalia for another six months but urged the United Nations to take over the peacekeeping mission. The bloc's 15-member ...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, June 30 (Reuters) – Washington is ready to help Nigeria send peacekeepers to Somalia, but its priority is supporting a Burundian battalion that is ready to deploy, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa said on Monday.  The ...

Somalia's opposition factions are expected to soon hold face-to-face talks in Yemen. The opposition split over the signing of a controversial peace agreement last month. The talks follow recent comments by the principle Islamist signatory to the agreement who said ...

A former Toronto resident who joined an Islamic insurgency in Mogadishu has been killed this week during violent clashes in wartorn Somalia.Ethiopian troops killed Canadian Abdullahi Afrah, 56, late Tuesday during fighting in central Somalia, according to local media reports ...

LONDON (AFP) - Somalis should not be punished for past mistakes of their leaders, the UN special envoy for Somalia said Sunday as he urged the big powers to help the east African country's rival factions implement a UN-brokered truce. ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah regards a Somalia truce deal reached last week as a "breakthough" and will invite rival factions to an official signing ceremony as soon as possible, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on ...

Somalidaxorta Nairobi Reports we are receiving from Nairobi, Kenya, say that a delegation headed by the leader of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) Shiikh Shariif Shiikh Axmed has arrived there late yesterday afternoon. Among the ...

  OXFARM Tuesday, June 17, 2008International aid agency Oxfam International is shocked and deeply saddened by the senseless killing of a staff member of one of its partner organizations in Mogadishu. Mohammed Abdulle Mahdi, 46, was shot to death in ...

Sweden is contributing SEK 3 million to support the continuing peace efforts in Somalia under UN leadership. After mediation by the UN, Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberalisation of Somalia (ARS) were able to ...

NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- The UN refugee agency chief Antonio Guterres arrived in Kenya on Wednesday for a three-day mission aimed at outlining some of the challenges facing the agency and its partners in providing protection to millions of uprooted people ...