News
Invasion splits Somalis living in the Twin Cities
After news hit that Somali government forces and their Ethiopian allies marched into the capital city of Mogadishu on Thursday, Somalis in the Twin Ci...
Read More »Ethiopia Helps Capture Mogadishu
JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 28 -- Ethiopian-backed troops moved unopposed into Somalia's unruly capital of Mogadishu on Thursday, taking over from fleeing Isla...
Read More »Fragile security in Mogadishu, NGO slams raid on hospital
NAIROBI, 29 Dec 2006 (IRIN) - The Somali capital of Mogadishu was quiet but tense on Friday as thousands of displaced residents who fled their homes e...
Read More »Crowds line route taken by defiant Gedi
ogadishu - Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamad Gedi swept into Mogadishu in an armed convoy on Friday a day after his Ethiopian-backed forces drove Isla...
Read More »Scores presumed dead after drama at sea
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 150 people were presumed dead on Friday after two boats of would-be migrants fleeing Somalia capsized off the coast of Ye...
Read More »Thousands Greet Somalia's PM in Capital
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's prime minister entered the capital Friday, a day after an Islamic movement's fighters retreated ahead of his Ethiopian-...
Read More »Germany "monitoring The Fighting In Somalia"
Germany voiced concern Friday at the fighting in Somalia, with Foreign Office spokesman Martin Jaeger saying a senior German diplomat would travel to ...
Read More »Somalia faces months of martial law
SOMALI Prime Minister Ali Mohamad Gedi said today the country's parliament would declare martial law this weekend for a period of three months....
Read More »After 15 years, Somalis strive to find a home
Buried in a strip mall with a giant grocery store and shops hawking everything from Chinese fast food to dollar-store baubles, the Dixon Community Cen...
Read More »Return of warlords as Somali capital is captured
Ethiopian tanks rolled into the outskirts of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, yesterday after Somalia's Islamist movement abandoned its bases in the cit...
Read More »