(SomaliNet) South Africa’s department of foreign affairs said on Monday that two South Africans detained in Uganda were still undergoing questioning and had not had any charges put to them.
South African high commissioner Henry Chiliza visited the two relief workers on Monday, Spokesperson Ronn
(SomaliNet) Members of a Ugandan children's choir travelling in the United States had two laptops, video equipment and a passport stolen from a tour van in Chicago.
Co-ordinator of the SIFA African Children's Choir, Carrie Harless, says the group includes 20 boys and girls raising money for a sch
(SomaliNet) Libya's state news agency Jana said on Wednesday, quoting the head of the airport at Kufrah said hijackers who forced a Sudanese plane to land in Libya have demanded that it be refuelled so that it can fly on to Paris.
"The pilot relayed to the airport head that the hijackers do not w
(SomaliNet) After leaving Sudan’s war-torn Darfur, a Sudanese passenger plane was hijacked on Tuesday and has been forced to land in Libya, Arab media and Libyan authorities said.
Some 87 passengers were on the plane, which belonged to a private local operator, Arabic satellite TV channel Al J
(SomaliNet) A day after Sudanese government forces raided Kalma camp, killing about 49 people, victims of Sudanese military police raids in a displaced persons camp in Darfur have resisted efforts to airlift them to safety because they are afraid of being arrested.
After fighting there left dozen
(SomaliNet) Comorians would forever remember the epic role Tanzania played in the struggle against separatist elements that threatened to tear Comoros apart, President Ahmed Mohammed Abdallah Sambi of the Union of Comoros said.
“You were ready to offer your youths to lead the African Union miss
(SomaliNet) Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi admitted for the first time that the Ethiopian government is considering withdrawal of its forces from Somalia following the takeover of the Somali port city of Kismayo by forces of the Islamic Courts movement.
The Ethiopian leader, while speaking to
(SomaliNet) Amidst bird flue scare as a caution to avian influenza which it said had reached Southern Sudan, Kenya Government has banned with immediate effect the transportation of live birds and chicken by long distance trucks entering the country through Malaba and Busia.
Further, Kenya also ba
(SomaliNet) An official of International Criminal Court (ICC) has said the court has not found evidence against the UPDF to warrant the commanders arraignment over crimes in the Kony war.
ICC’s field public information outreach assistant in Uganda Jimmy Otim, said the prosecutor did not get ev
(SomaliNet) The Ugandan government on Friday deported two South African nationals arrested at Entebbe last week on suspicions of being of terrorists.
According to media reports, the decision to deport the South African suspects was taken by the National Security Council (NSC) chaired by the Inter
