20110718 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates owned and flagged oil tanker with a crew of 16 people, the European Union's naval force for Somalia said on Monday.
20110714 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Piracy attacks on the world's shipping rose by a third in the first half of this year and became increasingly violent, with pirates using machineguns, grenade launchers and other weapons, a maritime watchdog said on Thursday.
20110713 Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Tuesday it was struggling to keep up with an exodus of hungry Somali refugees and many emaciated children were dying of malnutrition along the way or after arriving in neighbouring countries.
20110711 presstv The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has expressed grave concerns about persistence of famine in the Horn of Africa, saying that drought-ridden Somalia represents the 'worst humanitarian disaster' in the world.
20110709 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three accused Somali pirates were charged in a U.S. court on Friday with the murder, kidnapping and hostage-taking of two American couples in February and could face the death penalty if convicted.
20110706 Reuters NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Somali man was brought to a U.S. criminal court on Tuesday to face charges of assisting al Qaeda and a militant Somali group, although his questioning abroad for over two-months without being advised of his rights might raise problems at trial.
20110705 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Somali pirates have been using Yemen's remote Horn of Africa island of Socotra as a refueling hub enabling their attack craft to stay restocked for longer periods at sea and pose a greater hazard to shipping, maritime sources say.
20110629 xinhua NAIROBI, June 29 (Xinhua)--About 2.5 million people are in need of emergency humanitarian assistance in Somalia, a UN humanitarian agency said.
20110624 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Unidentified aircraft attacked an insurgent base near the southern Somali port of Kismayu late on Thursday, wounding a number of fighters, al Shabaab officials and residents said.
20110621 Xinhua MOMBASA, Kenya, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan authorities on Monday charged in court 24 suspected Somali pirates who were arrested by the Danish Navy in the pirate-infested waters of the Indian Ocean.
20110619 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A Somali court has jailed six foreigners including three Britons and an American for illegally carrying millions of dollars into the country to pay ransoms for the release of vessels held by pirates.
20110616 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates rescued nineteen crew members of the MV ORNA after their hijacked ship caught fire off the Horn of Africa country's coast, pirates and residents said on Thursday.
20110615 Reuters LONDON, June 15 (TrustLaw) - A Thomson Reuters Foundation poll may have found that Afghanistan is the most dangerous place to be a woman, but Somalia's women's minister is astonished any country could be worse than her own.
20110612 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali police said on Saturday that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Africa's most wanted al Qaeda operative, was killed in the capital of the Horn of Africa country on Tuesday.
20110612 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's prime minister said on Saturday he would not resign unless the country's parliament endorses an agreement signed by the country's president and speaker that stipulates he leaves office within 30 days.
20110612 xinhua MOGADISHU, June 11 (Xinhua) -- The Somali government on Saturday confirmed that its forces killed Fazul Abdullah Mohamed who was Al Qaeda’s chief operative in East Africa.
20110611 Xinhua MOGADISHU, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Somalia's interior and security minister on Friday died after sustaining severe wounds in a suicide attack at his home in the capital Mogadishu, a government official said.
20110611 aljazeera Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan, the Somali interior ministry, has died after a suicide attack at his home, apparently carried out by a niece, a security official said.
20110610 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 26-year-old American was arrested in Ohio on Thursday on charges that he tried to help Somali al-Shabaab rebels, the latest American accused of trying to aid the militant group, the U.S. Justice Department said.
20110604 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - African Union troops with Somali government soldiers captured a strategic district in the capital Mogadishu from al Shabaab rebels after heavy fighting and casualties on both sides, the AU force said on Saturday.
