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Security Challenges Await Somalia After Historic Year In August, members of Somalia's new parliament took the oath of office in a parking lot outside the Mogadishu airport. The selection of the 275-seat body represented one of the most substantial ac
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 28 June 2007 The foreign affairs secretary for Somalia's ousted Islamic Courts Union has confirmed to VOA that he has received an invitation from the country's western-backed transitional government to attend peace talks next mo
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 20 June 2006 Tensions are rising in the Horn of Africa amid unconfirmed reports that several-hundred Ethiopian troops have crossed the border into Somalia to confront an Islamic group that controls large areas of southern Somal
At least eight people have died in renewed fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Islamist insurgents and pro-government forces have clashed repeatedly since insurgents launched an offensive last month. Body of a Somali government soldier killed
A court under the control of a Somali Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab has ordered four young men suspected of stealing guns and mobile phones to have a hand and a leg amputated, but the punishment was postphoned. An al-Shabab spokesman told the A
The police chief in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has been killed as fighting continues to wrack the city. At least seven others were killed in clashes between Islamist insurgents and pro-government forces in the south of the city. A Somali man car
Somalia's government said it has repulsed a military attack by foreign-backed insurgents trying to overrun the presidential compound in Mogadishu and oust President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. News agencies report at least 110 people, mostly civilia
Somalia's government has played down reports that Ethiopian troops have re-entered the country in recent days. Islamist insurgents have clashed with pro-government militias near the Ethiopian border in central Somalia, and continue an assault on the
Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan flew out of Mogadishu on a chartered plane Wednesday, 15 months after they were kidnapped by gunmen on a road outside of Mogadishu. Alisha Ryu | Nairobi 26 November 200
Al-Shabab militants in the south-central Somali town of Baidoa have beheaded seven people in what is believed to the largest mass execution carried out in Somalia by the al-Qaida-linked group since 2006. Armed Al-Shabaab fighters patrol Bakara Marke
Somalia Hosts IGAD Foreign Ministers 索马里主持东非政府间发展组织外长会议 MOGADISHU Foreign Ministers from seven countries in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, IGAD, have met in the Somali capital for the first time in
By Nico Gnecchi Dadaab, Kenya 14 September 2006 The recent takeover of much of southern Somalia by the Islamic courts has cast a shadow on some Somali refugees heading home. New arrivals keep surging across the border, and more than 21,000 so far th
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 19 December 2007 The end of 2007 will mark the one-year anniversary of an Ethiopia-led offensive that ousted Somalia's Islamist movement from power and helped install a secular interim government in its place. As VOA Corresponde
索马里首都治安改善 夜场篮球赛悄然回归 For the first time in decades, young basketball players in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, are enjoying better security and playing tournaments at night - attracting more fans. 在索马里首都摩
Somalias prime minister says Tuesdays suicide bomb attack in Mogadishu shows the increasing desperation of al-Qaida linked forces who still control large parts of the famine-wracked country. The blast killed at least 70 people and injured scores more
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 March 2007 An old Somali man, holds his gun in Bakhara market in Mogadishu to defend his family from looters (File photo) In the Somali capital, Mogadishu, elders of the locally-dominant Hawiye clan tell VOA that the interim
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 02 November 2007 U.N. refugee agency says the situation inSomalia's capital, Mogadishu, has calmed down, but remains volatile. It says 90,000 people fled the recent fighting between Ethiopian troops, backing the transitional go
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 15 January 2007 Many residents of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, say they fear deploying foreign peacekeepers to re-establish security there after the fall of the country's Islamist movement may cause more instability, not les
By Alan Boswell Nairobi 16 September 2009 A senior commander of radical Islamist militant group al-Shabab in Somalia has issued a public call for foreign fighters from around the world to come to Somalia and join its fight against the Western-backed
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 05 November 2007 In a worrying sign that insurgent violence in the Somali capital could escalate further, the deputy chairman of the Eritrea-based Somali opposition group tells VOA that well armed rebels are prepared to step up