20100704
africanews

The UN refugee agency has reported that many of the 200, 000 Somalis who fled their homes are trapped in the country as routes out become increasingly dangerous.

20100703
reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - About half of school-age children in the southern Somali port town of Kismayu are ditching classes to join rebels fighting to topple a fragile government, teachers said.

20100702
africanews

The UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon urged Somalis people to seek unity of divided country, which celebrated its 50th independence anniversary nearly two decades into bloodshed.

20100702
africanews

Opposition candidate Ahmed Mohamud Silanyo has been declared the winner of Somaliland's election. Outgoing President Dahir Riyale Kahin had promised to accept defeat. He obtained 33% of the vote, compared to 50% for Silanyo. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 but its independence has not been recognised internationally.

20100630
africanews

Eight Somali journalists were injured on Tuesday after mortars hit at a police school in Abdiasis district of northern Mogadishu. The pressmen were covering a news conference organized by Al-Shabaab spokesman in the training facility at a base that had been seized since Monday.

20100629
africanews

A group of international observers said the recent concluded presidential election in Somalia's separatist region of Somaliland was free and fair.

20100626
africanews

The people of the self-declared republic of Somaliland have begun voting in the region's second presidential election. Three men, Dahir Riyale Kahin, Ahmed Mohamud Silanyo and Feysal Ali Warabe, are vying to become president of the unrecognised region, a haven of relative peace in the northwest of Somalia.

20100625
africanews

Somaliland, which is more tribally homogenous than the rest of Somalia, has been striving to attain international recognition for almost two decades and many voters saw the election as a fresh opportunity to demonstrate their aspiring state's democratic credentials.

20100621
africanews

Islamist insurgent group Hizbul Islam may have banned music in Somalia but artists say it would not stop singing. "This is my work and life. Till my childhood, I was in the music. The feed of my family depends on," said Mohamud Goh Qarbosh, a veteran Somali musician currently living in Nairobi, Kenya.

20100618
africanews

At least 11 people were killed on Friday and dozen others wounded after rebel militias attacked the barracks of Somali government forces in Hosh, southern Mogadishu.

20100605
Reuters

Two Ugandan soldiers serving in the African Union's peacekeeping force in Somalia (AMISOM) died in fighting with rebels for control of north Mogadishu this week, an AMISOM spokesman said on Saturday.

20100531
PressTV

The Somali armed group al-Shabab has suspended all relations with the London-based Universal TV for showing sacrilegious cartoons disrespecting Islam's Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).

20100529
press tv

Somali lawmakers have elected former Finance Minister Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden as the new head of parliament after the former speaker was forced to resign.

20100528
press tv

The UN says over 60 civilians have been killed and 14,300 others have been displaced in recent clashes between government troops and opposition forces in Mogadishu.

20100526
press tv

Somalia's Finance Minister Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden has formally tendered his resignation in order to run for the post of Parliament speaker.

20100524
AFRICA NEWS

At least thirteen people were killed and over thirty-five were wounded after residents clashed with Ethiopia soldiers in the northern Somali town of Buhoodle.

A local resident told AfricaNews that angry residents clashed with Ethiopia’s force that had entered in Buhoodle district two weeks ago.

20100524
AFRICA GOOD NEWS

Fifty-five countries on Saturday pledged their support to Somalia's fragile transitional federal government as the only barrier to chaos in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation.
French Foreign Affairs Minister Kouchner and U.N. Secretary-General Ban applaud as they stand with Somalia's President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed in Istanbul

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened an international conference in Istanbul with an appeal for global support for Somalia's government as it sought to strengthen its military resources and reconstruct the country.

20100523

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Somalia's business community pledged to join forces in search of lasting peace for the Horn of Africa nation, investing $1 billion in electricity and gas industries in five years, a company official said on Sunday.

20100523

By Daren Butler and Abdiaziz Hassan

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday that international support for the current Somalia government was the only chance to stabilise the chaotic country.

20100523
PRESS TV

At least 16 people, including six children, have been killed and dozens injured in heavy gun battles in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, residents and medics say.

The clashes erupted after Somali fighters launched an attack on government troops' bases in northern districts of Shibis and Bondhere, a Press TV correspondent reported on Sunday.