Somalia: Can a hijab-wearing blogger get a respectable job in the US?
Region: Somaliaby Abdurahman Warsame This is our second roundup of Somali blogs discussing various topics including Somali politics, the challenges of wearing a hijab in the United States and the first Somali female pilot. Idil, a Somali blogger who lives in US, writes about the difficulty of getting a decent job while wearing a hijab: so trying to find a job? gosh how hard can that be? well apparently it'... more
Views: 2646Fierce gun-battles rage in capital of Somalia
Region: SomaliaFierce gun-battles today in the streets of Mogadishu, capital of Somalia have left at least five Ethiopian soldiers and seven civilains dead. The gun-battles started when Ethiopian soldiers supporting the interim Government in Somalia were engaging a gang of rebel insurgents near the stadium, late Friday. Eye-witness reports suggest that the bodies of the dead Ethiopian soldiers were dragged through... more
Views: 1206Peace remains elusive in Somalia
Region: Somalia
By Zachary Ochieng Despite the relocation of the embattled Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG)—formed in exile in Nairobi in December 2004— to the capital, Mogadishu, last month, peace still remains elusive. According to the United Nations, more than 50,000 people have fled Mogadishu in the past two weeks. A renewed fighting in the city has led to the death of 400 people and serious injuries to 90... more
Views: 1458Yemen “objection” with Multinational NAVY
Region: SomaliaChina, 05/12 China People Liberation Army Navy Force sent out their war vessels to Somali Coast as a part of multinational task force in securing the merchant vessels from hijacking by pirate. Military options are still in discussion to suppress the pirate action. Do they need to take any military operation or negotiation process could end the pirate activities? At what scale of military operation and involvin... more
Views: 1525UN Security Council Reviewing 1992 Somali Arms Embargo
Region: Somalia
Recent efforts have been made by the Somali federal government to lift an arms embargo that has been in place since 1992. When Somali dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was ousted from power in 1991 and the country fell into a civil war between warlords struggling for power, the UN Security council unanimously passed the embargo on all arms supplied to Somalia in an effort to stop the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situa... more
Views: 279Al-shabaab rebels close 16 aid agencies’ offices in Somalia
Region: Somalia
Somalia’s Al-shabaab fighters banned several aid groups working in famine-hit areas under their control. According to witnesses the militants stormed aid offices in Beledweyne and Baidoa towns in the southern part of Somalia In a statement posted on website amiirnur Al-shabaab said some of the banned groups had worked with churches to convert young, Muslim Somalis to Christianity. &nbs... more
Views: 882The top Somali leaders commit to end child soldiers
Region: Somalia
The Special Representative of the Secretary- General of United Nations Radhika Coomaraswamy secured from top officials of the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) a process to end the use of children or their recruitment in the country’s armed forces. Ms. Coomaraswamy met the President and the Prime Minister during her visit in the capital Mogadishu, where she spoke with children who had ... more
Views: 762Eight people were killed in Mogadishu by a roadside explosive device
Region: Somalia
At least seven people were killed and four injured on Tuesday afternoon in Wadajir district, located south west of the capital Mogadishu. The main bases for 9,000 African Union Force and International airport are in the area and it is known as the safest neighborhood in the capital. "The bomb went off and killed seven people including three children who were playing with it and four passers-by," Ahmed ... more
Views: 660Somalia's Shabaab declare to defeat Ethiopian forces
Region: Somalia
Somalia’s militant Al-shabaab warned Ethiopian troops on Sunday that they would break the necks of their soldiers if they remain inside Somalia. This came after several hundred Ethiopian soldiers crossed into the war- country. "Soldiers of our enemy, the black colonialists of Ethiopia, made some movements into our region on Saturday, but they do not scare us," said Sheikh Yusuf Ali Ugas, the insurgen... more
Views: 813Ethiopian troops cross into Somalia: witnesses
Region: Somalia
Several hundred Ethiopian soldiers crossed on Saturday into southern and central Somalia, local elders said, but Addis Ababa dismissed the reports as"absolutely not true." "There are several hundred Ethiopian troops here in lorries and some armored vehicles too," said elder Abdi Ibrahim Warsame, speaking by telephone from Gurel town, in Somalia's central Galgudud region. Ethiopian troops were ... more
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