20100921
Garowe Online

The interim Prime Minister of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has resigned from the post after a months-long feud with President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, Radio Garowe reports.

20100921
africanews

Somalia, stricken by more than two decades of civil war, has been declared the world's worst place to go to school, in a new report released Monday. Somalia and Haiti are the two worst countries in which to be a school child at a time when $4.6 billion has been cut from education budgets worldwide.

20100921
africanews

Somali Prime minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmake has resigned after weeks long tensions with President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. "After considering the political crisis in the government and increasing insecurity in Somalia, I have decided to resign from my post as prime minister," Sharmarke told reporters in Mogadishu.

20100922
africanews

The president of Somalia Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has welcomed the resignation of the Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, who stepped down from the Transitional Federal Government earlier on Tuesday, according to Xanano.

20100920
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday but there were no other casualties, police said.

20100920
africanews

Somali government is planning to launch a new offensive against Islamist rebels in southern Somalia.

20100920
africanews

Dutch Police arrested a Somali-born British man on suspicion of terrorism. The man was arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport en route from England's Liverpool to Entebbe, Uganda. Reports say the man may have links with a foreign terror group, possibly Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked group, Al-Shabaab.

20100919
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Insurgents in Somalia's capital Mogadishu beat guards and looted equipment from one radio station and seized control of another on Saturday in the latest attacks on media in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.

20100919
africanews

Two radio stations have been seized in Somalia capital Mogadishu by Islamist insurgents. The stations, Horn Afrik and GBC, were raided on Saturday by militants from the two main rebel groups al-Shabab and Hizbul Islam.

20100918
reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The international community is neglecting the security threat from Somalia, Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula said on Friday, suggesting that the United States wanted to avoid a repeat of a failed 1992 military intervention.

20100918
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A vote of confidence in Somalia's prime minister, seen as a power-struggle between the leader of the government and President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, has been postponed, officials said on Saturday.

20100916
aljazeera

Representative to Horn of African nation calls situation "very grave" as political instability compounds security woes.

20100913
reuters

Washington, DC — Somalia increasingly represents a direct threat to U.S. national security.

20100912
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali police said they had foiled a suicide attack by Islamist rebels on the seaport in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, two days after a bomb attack on the city's airport.

20100907
UN News

The United Nations refugee agency today voiced alarm over worsening security in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where fighting between forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and armed Islamists has killed more than 230 civilians and wounded at least 400 others during the past two weeks.

20100907
africanews

GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 230 civilians have been killed in a worsening of fighting in Mogadishu over the past two weeks that has increasingly trapped residents in the Somali capital, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.

20100906
Garowe Online

The president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Sheikh Sharif Ahmed fired the country's top military chief Monday due to allegations that he 'sold weapons' illegally, Radio Garowe reports.

20100903
reuters

ontinuing fighting in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, has caused the displacement of at least 22,000 more civilians and forced relief agencies to curtail their operations in the war-scarred city during the past 12 days, the United Nations reported on Friday.

20100830
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Four Ugandan peacekeepers were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday when al Shabaab Islamist rebels fired mortars at the presidential palace, an African Union spokesman said.

20100830
africanews

Four African Union peacekeepers were killed when a mortar hit Somalia's presidential palace, officials say. It is not clear if any Somalis were hit by the shells, fired as Islamist insurgents continue to battle government forces. Those killed were from Uganda, one of just two countries to have sent troops to Somalia to help the government.