20101020
africanews

Somali gunmen released a British contractor with Save the Children organization who was kidnapped last week in Central Somalia.

20101018
ISS

Following more than two decades of failed interventions, African countries are being called upon to send more troops for a "surge" against Islamic militants in Somalia. Jakkie Cilliers, Henri Boshoff and Festus B Aboagye question this move.

20101018
africanews

Somali pirates are holding at least 26 foreign ships with 474 seafarers, an international maritime body Ecoterra said on Monday. The maritime group said among the 474 seafarers is an aging British couple and other five Somali born hostages from a breakaway region of Somaliland who are languishing in the pirates' hands.

20101017
reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - A British aid worker kidnapped by masked gunmen in Somalia is alive and being looked after by his captors, the Save the Children charity said on Sunday.

20101017
africanews

The dreaded Somali militia group Al-shabaab has released a radio director after a week of keeping him in custody.

20101015
africanews

At least 21 people have been reportedly killed and more than 52 others injured in heavy clashes between moderate Islamists of Ahlusuna Waljamea and Al-shabab fighters.

20101015
africanews

Two workers of Save the Children organization have been kidnapped in Somalia by unknown gunmen, the charity organization said.

20101011
africanews

Somali pirates have seized a Japanese ship with 20 Filipino crews on board in the Somali Basin, the European Union naval force said on Monday. A Danish warship was sent to investigative the Panama-flagged MV IZUMI ship early Monday after owners received a distress signal on Sunday.

20101010
Garowe Onlin

Residents in Warsheekh told Garowe online that the skiffs reached on Friday in that region while their crews were jailed by the Somali insurgent group, Al-Shabaab on Saturday.

20101009
Garowe Online

Somali Humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF claimed Medical aid planes are being prevented from landing in some of the airports in southern Somalia--where Al-shabaab controls by the insurgent group, Radio Garowe Reports.

20101009
Garowe Online

Deputy special representative of the chairman of the AU Commission for Somalia, Wafula Wamunyinyi says its peacekeeping troops are now in control of more than 45% of the Somali capital of Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reports.

20101010
africanews

A widespread drought has affected many pastoralists in Somalia. Gedo and Lowere Jubba regions of southern Somalia are reportedly the most affected areas. The affected families have now started flocking into urban centers, seeking an alternative livelihood there.

20101008
africanews

Somali pirates hijacked a Taiwanese fishing vessel which was sailing in the Indian Ocean, near Mauritius, an international maritime organization said on Friday.

20100926
RFI

A moderate Islamist party has pulled out of the Somali government days after the country's prime minister quit. The Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca announced on Saturday that it has withdrawn from the administration, with whom it signed a power sharing deal in March.

20100925
Nation

The United States is strengthening its relations with two breakaway regions in Somalia while also urging Japan to help Kenya meet the costs of prosecuting Somali pirates.

20100926
africanews

The Al-Qaeda linked group in Somalia Al-shabaab has arrested 11 men in the regions of Baay and Bakol in Southern part of Somalia, according to VOA. Those arrested include businessmen and elders of the community.

20100925
reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States is increasing ties with two semi-autonomous regions in Somalia, hoping to build stability for the embattled central government and African Union forces deployed in the virtually lawless nation, a top U.S. diplomat said on Friday.

20100925
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A moderate Islamist group that signed a power sharing deal with Somalia's government in March this year to help quell a raging insurgency has withdrawn from the administration, days after the prime minister quit.

20100922
africanews

Four Ghanaians including 20 other nationals being held hostage by Somali Pirates in the Gulf of Aden off the Coast of Somalia since March 2010 could be killed by Wednesday September 22, if their captors are not paid a ransom between one and ten million dollars.

20100922
africanews

Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh has been appointed as the acting Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, a day after Omar Abdirashid Ali sharmake resigned from the post, according to Alshahid.