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 tourists demand refugee status in Nepal

About 35 Somalis, including children and women, on Wednesday afternoon demanded the refugee status from the Nepal government. They sat-in nearby the Kathmandu District Administration with some placards on which they wrote their demand for refugee status as well as waive-off...

Mogadishu Turns Toward Chaos

Ethiopia invaded Somalia last December  to rid the land of the Islamic Courts Union, a group accused of harboring al-Qaeda  The Ethiopians thought they would be out in two weeks, replaced by an African...

Airstrike Rekindles Somalis’ Anger at the U.S.

"MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan. 9 — Somali officials said Tuesday that dozens of people were killed in an American airstrike on Sunday, most of them Islamist fighters fleeing in armed pickup trucks across a remote, muddy stretch of the KenyaSomalia border."

Somalis vow holy war on Ethiopia

"Somalia's Islamists have accused Ethiopian troops of attacking a town and have vowed a "holy war" in revenge."

2 Somalis Killed for Watching World Cup

"MOGADISHU, Somalia - Radical Islamic militia fighters in Somalia shot and killed two people who were watching a banned World Cup soccer broadcast, a radio station reported Wednesday."

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