6 hours ago by Chandler

Mogadishu – Heavy fighting broke out between the Somali government forces and Islamists insurgents yesterday, resulting in the rebel group recapturing the town of Beledweyn in Hiran region, some 206 miles (332Km) north of Mogadishu. Paul and Rachel Chandler (Times of London) Elsewhere, clashes also ...

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1 day ago by admin

©2009 Jan Grarup/NOOR Tens of thousands of refugees fleeing war and famine in Mogadishu crowd the city of Galkayo in central Somalia. These internationally displaced people or “IDPs” are among the most tragic human casualties of a changing climate, a prolonged drought and a civil war exacerbated by ...

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1 day ago by PsiCop

Islamism continues to make the world safe for barbarity. The latest example of the triumph of fundamentalist Islam, can be seen in this report from the BBC: Somali adulterer stoned to death Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until ...

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3 days ago by Alex Thurston

We know that the Transitional Federal Government’s power is limited. Control of the country largely rests in the hands of others – al Shabab in parts of the south, Somaliland’s government, Puntland’s government, and various warlords and local political and religious leaders. Mogadishu, Somalia If no ...

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4 days ago by Mike

"Dammit...I spent all my iTunes gift card on these ringtones." A group long known for practicing torture on its enemies has upped the ante on its own people. It seems the head honchos of the al Shabaab insurgency near Mogadishu have ordered all their faithful soldiers to silence their musical ringto ...

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5 days ago by hslu

Islam and the United States The current administration has announced that the U.S. will leave Iraq by the end of 2011. It is dragging its feet on the request for 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan by General McChrystal. Pakistan is practicing democracy but the region is powder cake and the situation ...

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8 days ago by Gremil Alessandro Naz

According to local officials and witnesses in Mogadishu, militants who control parts of Somalia’s capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical brand of Islamic law. According to a female maize trader at the Mogadishu market, “Just today, Al-Shabaab dispatched men with ...

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8 days ago by wilson

An airplane that transported Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed back to the capital Mogadishu was targeted by insurgent mortars on Wednesday, as at least 10 people were killed in attacks, Radio Garowe reports. Read the original: Somalia: Insurgents Kill 10, Fire on President’s Plane

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10 days ago by Dan Morgan

I’ve just listened to Paul Chandler, kidnapped along with his wife last Friday by Somalian pirates, speaking to the BBC’s Somali Service on the BBC News website. Mr Chandler and his wife, Rachel, were in the Indian Ocean on their yacht when armed men came aboard, took them hostage and demanded money ...

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10 days ago by Rozier

Somali road trip to Islamist heartland The BBC's Mohamed Dore reports on a rare road trip out of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, into territory run by Islamist militants. The first thing I notice when I head out of Mogadishu is the number of roadblocks. Most of war-ravaged central and southern Somalia ...

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