by Prof Adam Habib, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research, Innovation & Advancement at the University of Johannesburg The recent African Union (AU) summit in Kampala saw SA come under significant pressure to send troops to bolster Ugandan and Burundian peacekeepers in Somalia. African leaders, however, were not the only ones applying the pressure. It seems the Americans ...

The West African Country of Guinea is a step away from joining the African Union Peace Keeping Mission in Somalia. The Country’s troops are currently undergoing training in Addis Ababa as they await deployment in the war ravaged Horn of Africa Country. African Union Chairman Jean Ping told journalists at the ...

Piracy may have taken a back seat, but another Somali problem is top on the agenda — Al-Shabaab. The Kenyan delegation attending the AU summit there, says it has stepped up surveillance in the country, in the wake of the terror threat. Source: NTV Kenya Wikio Wikio ...

In this report Somali freelance journalist, Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, writes about the meeting of young somali people to commemorate the heroics of the SYL. … Hundreds of Somali refugees have gathered at Meridian hotel in Nairobi on Saturday to remember the heroics of 13 Somalis, who were midwives to the independence of Somalia. The event has converged youths ...

Human rights group in Somalia had said on Thursday that the casualties of the street fighting between government forces backed by AU peacekeepers and the insurgents in Mogadishu has fell out in the year of 2009. A Mogadishu based Human Rights group of Elman said more than 1700 people, mostly civilians, were killed the fighting in ...

A Somali man was arrested in Mogadishu after being suspected of attempting to board an aircraft, Somali officials have announced. Officials said the man had chemicals, liquid and a syringe, same material to those used by the Nigerian man accused of attempting to blast a plane on Christmas Day. The man was arrested at the Mogadishu ...

Image via Wikipedia Somali Islamist rebel Hizbul Islam vowed on Thursday that they will invade inside Ethiopia towns, a top official threatened. Islamist governor of border region of Hiiran, Shuriye Farah Sabriye told reporters in Mogadishu that his group will launch cross border attacks against Ethiopia. He said that they were in the final preparations for a big ...

Islamist hardliners in Somalia have ordered that WFP immediately stop importing relief ration in Somalia on Wednesday. Press statement from Al-Shabaab group who Washington says the group is al Qaeda’s proxy in the Horn of Africa nation accused the aid agency of devastating local agriculture. Al-shabaab rebel group control most of southern Somalia while the Western-backed government ...

By: Muhyadin Ahmed Roble      Somali Freelance Journalist Islamist hardliners in Somalia have stoned a Somali woman for adultery on Tuesday, official told on Wednesday. Halima Ibrahim Abdurrahman, 20-year-old, was killed in front of hundreds people, mostly women and children, in the town of Wajid, 250 miles (400km) north-west of the capital, Mogadishu. Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Abdirahman, a judge ...

Full Name Republic of Somalia Capital Mogadishu Form of Government Transitional Federal Government Date of Independence 26 June, 1960 Date of Entry into the UN Total Area 637,661 km2 (42nd)246,201 sq mi Total Population (2008 estimate) 9,558,666 (85th) Time Zone EAT (UTC+3) Currency Somali Shilling GDP (PPP, 2007 estimate) $5.575 billion GDP Per Capita $600 Human Development Index Not Ranked Languages Somali, Arabic Etnic Groups Religions Nearly 100% Islam Principal Cities History Cuisine Music Literature TV stations ETN TV Horn Cable TV Wikio Wikio ...