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United Nations Promises to Increase Influence in Somalia
Amid the worst ever humanitarian situation in Somalia, the visiting United Nations (UN) under secretary general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, said in Mogadishu on Saturday that the UN will increase its influence...
Aid Against the Odds
As aid agencies attempt to scale up assistance to thousands of people in south-central Somalia, controlled by Al-Shabab militia, IRIN asked the Somali Red Crescent Society, which has been active in the region for the past four decades, how it operates.
UNHCR Airlifts Aid to Mogadishu
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, will fly its first humanitarian airlift to Somalia in five years next week, the agency said at a briefing in Geneva on Friday. The first of three planned flights is scheduled to land in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on August...
Islamic Group Al-Shabab Lashes Two Men And a Woman in Central Somalia
Al-Shabab Islamic militias, Somalia-based terror network, on Tuesday noon publicly lashed two men and a woman in Beledwenyne town, the provincial capital of Hiraan in central Somalia at some 332km from Mogadishu the capital city, witnesses told APA on...
At Least 12 People Die During Fighting in Somali Capital
At least twelve people were killed and more than twenty were wounded overnight on Saturday during a gun battle between Somali government troops allied with African Union (AU) forces and the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants, Al-Shabab, in the Bondhere,...
No High School, No Hope in Gedo, Somalia
Primary school is a dead end for many children in Somalia, particularly in the southwestern Gedo region where many end up jobless, joining a militia, or emigrating.
Somali Leader Welcomes UK’s Decision to Ban Al- Shabab
The President of the Somali Transitional Federal Government Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed has welcomed the decision by the British government that added Somalia’s Alqaeda proxy Al shabab into the list of international terrorist groups this week. During a...
Ethiopian Troops Re-enter Parts of Northern Somalia
Heavily armed Ethiopian troops have occupied parts of the northern regions of Bakool and Hiiraan near the border with Somalia, local residents confirmed Sunday. Residents in the city of Elbarde in the Bakool region just bordering with Ethiopia said that...
