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By Noel King Khartoum 31 October 2006 Peace talks in Khartoum between Somalia's transitional government and Islamists who control much of the country have stalled for a second day. Islamists say they will not meet with the government delegation unle
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 09 November 2007 Hospital workers and residents in the Somali capital Mogadishu say more than 40 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded since late Thursday in battles between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgen
By Katy Migiro Nairobi 02 May 2007 Ethiopia tops a list of countries where press freedom has deteriorated over the last five years, the Committee to Protect Journalists reports. The U.S.-based media advocacy group says the Ethiopian government has ja
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 26 January 2007 A mortar attack and shootings are the latest violence to hit the Somali capital, which is struggling to regain stability after Ethiopian-backed government forces ousted Islamists who controlled the capital fo
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 27 December 2006 Somali government troops, backed by Ethiopian forces, Wednesday were heading to the Somali capital, the base of the Islamic Courts Union. But Ethiopia's information minister tells VOA it is not his country'
By David Gollust State Department 26 December 2006 The United States said Tuesday Ethiopia has genuine security concerns in Somalia and has intervened at the request of that country's legitimate governing authority. But the State Department called o
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 22 December 2006 In Somalia, Islamist fighters and government troops continue to battle each other near the government stronghold of Baidoa, with each side claiming to have killed hundreds of troops of the other side's. Cat
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 25 October 2006 Three journalists arrested by the transitional Somali government are being questioned for their work in an area under the control of the Islamic Courts Union. The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders is cal
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 20 October 2006 A senior U.S. diplomat says Somalia must not further become a safe haven for terrorists. The president of Somalia's interim government alleges that radicals inside the Islamic courts movement that controls much
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 02 January 2007 Somalia's interim president is in Kenya for talks with President Mwai Kibaki and other top security officials. Meanwhile, Kenyan authorities have arrested and detained at least eight people at a border cross
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 22 January 2007 One of the top leaders of the Somali Islamist movement is reportedly in U.S. and Kenyan custody in Nairobi, three weeks after Somali government and Ethiopian troops ousted the Islamic Courts Union from power. VOA
A radical Somali Islamist leader has condemned attacks on humanitarian workers in Somalia. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, aid workers have increasingly become a target in the conflict pitting Islamist and clan-base
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 19 June 2008 Somali Islamist opposition leader Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed says his group signed a U.N.-mediated peace agreement with Somalia's interim government last week because the accord provides a specific timetable for an E
Somalia's transitional leadership is struggling to form a new government, following the resignation of former president Abdullahi Yusuf, and trying to prevent Islamist extremists from taking control as Ethiopian troops withdraw. Somalia's two top le
By Pearse Lynch Nairobi 04 August 2006 Deep divisions within the transitional government of Somalia appear to be worsening, with four more ministers defecting from the administration. International observers fear rising tension in Somalia could engu
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 06 February 2008 Two explosions have killed at least 20 people in the port town of Bosasso in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, Puntland has gener
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 11 January 2007 In Ethiopia, former communist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam has been sentenced to life in prison on genocide charges and other crimes committed during his brutal 17-year-long rule. But as VOA Correspondent Alis
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 October 2006 A high-ranking member of the Islamist group that controls Somalia's capital, says it is not planning an attack on neighboring Ethiopia. Fears of such an attack were raised when a leader of the Islamist group dec
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 16 May 2007 A.U. peacekeepers from Uganda patrol on an armored vehicle in Mogadishu, 14 May 2007 A hidden roadside bomb exploded in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday, killing four African Union peacekeepers and woundin
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 08 June 2007 Reports in Somalia say that a coalition of groups opposed to Somalia's struggling transitional government and its Ethiopian backers has been formed with the support of the Eritrean government. VOA Correspondent Al