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Maaweelada Caruurta: Dhegeyso Labo Wasiir oo Ka Mid ah Xukuumada Siilaanyo, oo Irbadii Hurdada Ku Duraya Qurbajooga Beelaha Dhexe, Iyaga oo Ka Seexinaya Khatarta Ka Hoos Shanqadhaysa Sirka London AllAfrica.comSomalia: Saving Somalia? - Reflections On the Last 20 Years, and the Upcoming ...AllAfrica.comSo a political solution must now be found for ... (more)

Dhegeyso Waraysi uu Suldaan C/raxman Cawaale Hure Siiyay Waaheen Media, Isaga oo Ka Digay Khiyaamada Ku Ladhan Shirka London.

If I were a Somali I would thank Allah for the pirates. For more than 20 years the world has stood by while successive civil wars destroyed the country, killing hundreds of thousands of people by bullets, disease and starvation and reducing what was once a prosperous land to a war zone.

Writing a book about Somalia has become a cotton industry of late. Countless pundits with little or no experience of the country try to reduce its extraordinarily intricate conflict to images of destruction, decay and death.

Djibouti, Feb 7 : The international group that brings together the United Nations and its diplomatic partners in support of efforts to restore peace and stability in Somalia insisted on Monday that the country's current transitional governing arrangements must end on Aug 20 this year, as stipulated in recent agreements, and called for a new draft ... (more)

A In September 1992 Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd visited Mogadishu. He could not have known that it would be 20 years before any of his successors set foot in the country again.

As a Graduate student at Columbia University in Economics I've been studying the math behind piracy in Somalia largely to find the only people losing money in these transactions are the taxpayers funding massive military presences on the seas.

Nairobi - At least 100 fighters including eight top Al-Shabaab commanders have been killed in the latest battle in a town northeast of Badhade, Somalia, officials said on Friday.

Nairobi - The prime Minster of Somalia's Transitional Federal government Abdiweli Mohamed Ali has accused Al-shabab fighters of being behind the assassination of the latest Shabelle Media director Hassan Abdi Osman 'fantastic' who was shot dead last Saturday in Mogadishu.

A Somali pirate dubbed Six Toe Joe because he has an extra digit on each foot has been captured by Royal Navy sailors.

On Friday, February 2, the United Nations declared an end to the famine in the Horn of Africa that killed tens of thousands of people in the last nine months.

Lieutenant General William G. Boykin was the United States Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Held captive since last fall, an ailing American woman and a Danish man are safely on their way home after a bold, dark-of-night rescue by U.S. Navy SEALs.

A For Some time now, "Somaliland" has been showered with praises both by the international community and Somalis alike.A Not because it had implemented grandiose ideals, but because it observed one dear illusive phenomenon in the Horn of Africa - peace and security in the region.A In the last twenty years, when Southern Somalia was mired in ... (more)

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After almost pacifying Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, AMISOM is planning to roll out forces to other parts of the troubled country where elements of al Shabaab are thought to be.

With the United States' commitment to combat global hunger, the Acting Special Representative for Global Food Security Jonathan Shrier will welcome global food security representatives to Washington today to advance mutual accountability and coordination of efforts in fulfilling our leaders' food security commitments.

International Table Tennis Federation instructor Dr. Mohamed Refaat Bassyouni has successfully concluded a 6-day-long refereeing course for Somali table tennis referees in a colorful ceremony at Shamow hotel in Mogadishu late on Thursday in the presence of Somali NOC president and other senior officials within the national Olympic committee of ... (more)

Children line up at a food distribution center in Mogadishu, Somalia in January.

An unidentified drone crashed near a camp for displaced people in the outskirts of Somali capital Mogadishu, Xinhua reported.