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 ...