20100828
reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An accused pirate from Somalia pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court in Virginia to criminal charges over an April attack on a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of Africa, according to the court and the U.S. Justice Department.

20100827
africanews

At least 68 people have lost their lives in a fierce fighting between government forces and Al-Shabab fighters with both sides claiming advances.

20100824
Garowe Online

At least 40 people civilians have been killed and 150 others injured in heavy shelling and gun fire exchanged between Somali government troops and rebel fighters in Somalia's capital Mogadishu since Tuesday, Radio Garowe reports.

20100824
Shabelle

Mogadishu — The transitional government of Somalia has harshly condemned the suicide bombers deadly attack of Munna hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, just as it left the lives of 33 people including 6 Somali MPs.

20100824
africanews

A suicide bomber and a gunman stormed a Mogadishu hotel popularly patronized by Somali officials and killed 15 parliamentarians, an official and eye witnesses told AfricaNews. Al-Qaeda linked group of Al-Shabaab on Monday announced a heavy offensive attack against government forces and AU peacekeepers.

20100824
africanews

An African Union official said Monday that hundreds of additional troops have arrived in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, to bolster the AU force that supports the Somali government.

20100823
reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Hundreds of mainly Ugandan troops have arrived in Mogadishu to strengthen an African Union peacekeeping force helping Somalia's government battle Islamist insurgents, an AU official said on Monday.

20100822
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Eleven insurgent militiamen were killed by their own bombs when they went off prematurely in Somalia's capital, the government said on Saturday.

20100821
africanews

Al- Shabab, an Islamist group fighting against the transitional federal government of Somalia, burnt food aid in Mogadishu, over allegation that the foodstuffs had expiry date. The insurgent fighters raided a number of markets in the city and seized more than 500 bags of maize and wheat which they had attributed to the WFP then set fire to them.

20100820
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab rebels said on Friday they had burned more than 500 sacks of grain from the U.N.'s World Food Programme because they had expired and were a danger to public health.

20100817
africanews

At least fifteen civilians were killed and sixty others were wounded after clashes between Somali forces and rebel militias in Mogadishu. The clashes which took place Taleh and Taribunka in the capital has caused shells and mortars in Mogadishu. Some of artillery shells hit the main market of Bakara .

20100817
africanews

Food prices in the war-torn Somalia have increased during the fasting holy month of Ramadan. Somali businessmen in Mogadishu told AfricaNews that the food prices had gone up by 50 percent since Ramadan began last week.

20100816
africanews

A local court in Somalia has sentenced a radio journalist to six years in jail for an interview with a notorious warlord Mohamed Said Atom.

20100814
xinhuanet

NAIROBI -- There are "critical gaps" in assistance in some of the key areas where the Somali people need help, a senior UN official has said.

20100809
RFI

Security forces in the autonomous Puntland region of Somalia launched a new offensive against rebels on Sunday, in which at least seven people died. The operation targeted the several hundred fighters led by local warlord Mohamed Said Atom.

20100809
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents said on Monday they had ordered several aid agencies to close their operations, accusing them of spreading Christian propaganda.

20100809
africanews

The United Nations, foreign embassies and organizations will return to Somalia within two months, a UN envoy has said. The U.N. special representative for Somalia, Augustine Mahiga said that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon had taken a decision in which senior staff will move back to Somalia.

20100731
Garowe Online

Somali pirates on the early morning hours of Thursday released the Maltese flagged merchant vessel MV FRIGIA that they were holding for the past four months, Radio Garowe reports.

20100731
Garowe Online

embers of Parliament of Puntland's semi-autonomous region of Somalia dismissed three of their Mps after the government accused them of supporting rebel militias and going against the law, Radio Garowe reports.

20100730
allafrica

The United Nations refugee agency today called on Saudi Arabia to halt deportations of Somali refugees and asylum-seekers to the conflict-stricken capital, Mogadishu, where dozens of civilians were killed in escalating clashes this week.