(SomaliNet) The Media Review Network (MRN) strongly condemns the Egyptian Government for blocking the relief convoy, “Egyptians against the Siege”, to Gaza carrying humanitarian and medical aid through the Rafah Border post.
About 500 specially selected, invited and noteworthy citizens made u
(SomaliNet) After three months of talks and agreed to share power in a country wracked by the world's highest inflation rate, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai broke a political deadlock.
"A deal has been agreed this evening, more details will be ava
(SomaliNet) A security official said Thursday at least 20 militants, including foreigners, were killed by Pakistani security forces in clashes along the Afghan border.
According to security officials, Pakistani troops, backed by helicopters, clashed with militants in the village of Rashkai in th
(SomaliNet) The death toll from a massive rock slide that crushed dozens of homes in a Cairo slum earlier in September has risen to 95, officials said.
"Fifteen more bodies" are still under the rubble, the official said, adding that rescue operations would continue for a few more days.
The pre
(SomaliNet) The Nigerian military has said two South African hostages seized last week by pirates along with 25 other people aboard a vessel in Nigeria's southern oil-producing region were freed on Tuesday.
The pair was released around 6.00pm (17.00 GMT) "without payment of ransom," Nigerian Gove
(SomaliNet) The Nigerian presidency on Tuesday denied a report by Nigeria’s official news agency NAN that President Umaru Yar'Adua could "resign" on health grounds.
"There is nothing like that, it is absolutely rubbish," his spokesperson Olusegun Adeniyi told reporters.
NAN reported that the
(SomaliNet) In what further disrupts production in the world's eighth largest oil exporter,Royal Dutch Shell confirmed on Tuesday an attack on one of its crude oil pipelines in Nigeria.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, which declared an "oil war" against oil companies and the
(SomaliNet) A Nigerian army officer said Tuesday that unidentified gunmen kidnapped a British national overnight in southern Nigeria's oil hub Port Harcourt.
"A Briton... was kidnapped last night at 8.00pm (19h00 GMT)," Lieutenant-Colonel Musa Sagir, spokesperson for the unit of the Nigerian army
(SomaliNet)Three reporters arrested for an erroneous report claiming the Nigerian president would step down on health grounds were arrested by Nigerian security agents.
The journalists said they were freed late Thursday. They include Channels news employee Bashir Adigun, who also works for The As
(SomaliNet) The department of foreign affairs said on Thursday, two South Africans, who had been held hostage by Nigerian militants, have been released to Nigerian authorities.
Spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said, the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Stix Sifingo, had confirmed the rel
