Sunday, February 20, 2011
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Somalia's al-Shabab fighters have released a photojournalist working for Reuters after briefly detaining him in the capital, Mogadishu. Abdi Dhaqane Ayee was detained by al-Shabab fighters on Saturday morning while attending a press conference held by senior al-Shabab officials in Mogadishu's northern district of Karaan.
He was released later in the day but without his equipments, which were confiscated, a Press TV correspondent in Mogadishu reported on Sunday.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Over the past two decades, up to one million people have lost their lives in the fighting between rival factions and due to famine and disease.
There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced people in Somalia. More than 300,000 of them are sheltered in Mogadishu alone.
Most of the displaced live in poor and degrading conditions on makeshift sites in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Source: PressTV