UN: Somalis agree Ethiopian deadline

UN claims the resurrection of a peace deal agreed in July between Somalia and Ethiopia. However, not all conflicting forces were represented in the negotiations. "Other groups - including Islamist militias -...

Somali pirates free hijacked Malaysian tanker

International vessle passing through Somali waters are always scared as the the Pirates operating there are most notorious and organised sea criminals. They keep on taking hostage ships time to time. Recently they...

Food crisis looms in East Africa

Another food problem arise in africa, after haiti and now ethiophia and somalia. UN, especially FAO must respond this issue. UN should work harder to overcome this problems  " More than 14 million people...

Humanitarian Crisis Worsening in Horn of Africa

"U.N. Humanitarian Chief John Holmes says that the long-standing crisis in the Horn of Africa has been made worse by the global food crisis."The point is that large areas of the Horn of Africa, including parts of...

Eritrea: Isaias Afwerki on the Path to Chaos

"It is now official: the ruling regime has spilled Eritrean blood fighting all our neighbors: Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti. In every case, the hot-headed and impulsive actions of the ruling regime harmed the interest of Eritrea and diminished its reputation. And in...

Top Somali aid worker shot dead

One of top aid worker has been shot dead in Somalian capital Mogadishu. His killing with affect all the charity going on in the country.  "A prominent Somali aid worker has been shot dead in the capital, Mogadishu, just days after a ceasefire agreement was signed. The...

Two Killed in Djibouti Flare-Up

The border between Eritrea and Djibouti has been somewhat quiet for the past 12 years, but two Djiboutian troops were killed and 21 wounded in a battle with Eritrean troops earlier today." The first fighting...

U.N.: Somali factions sign peace deal

"Somalia's government signed an agreement Monday with an opposition alliance calling to end violence and withdraw of Ethiopian troops, whose presence has stoked an increasingly bloody Islamic insurgency."

A Bin Laden Brother's Ambitious Bridge Project

"ADEN, Yemen -- Nobody has walked across the Red Sea since Moses parted the waters. But it could happen again under an audacious plan to build the world's longest suspension bridge between Africa and the Arabian...

Somalia Cries For its Dying Children

OPINION PIECE:Why is there so much publicity about Dharfur (and rightly so!) yet we hear so little about events happening in Somalia these days?  They are certainly both experiencing the same horrors.Does it...

U.S. targeted al Qaeda suspects in Somalia: report

The US is back in Somalia, but clearly on a more limited basis than the debacle of 1992 - 1994 (see the Army's own version, below)."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. gunship conducted a strike against two suspected al...

Somali PM: Suspects in '98 U.S. Embassy blast hiding in Islamic stronghold

"MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somalia's prime minister said Sunday that the suspects in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in east Africa are sheltering in the stronghold of his country's militant Islamic...

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