(SomaliNet) In the second deadly attack on a United Nations employee in the last few days, a UN children's agency aid worker was shot dead in southern Somalia at the weekend, a local UN official and witnesses said Monday.
Muktar Mohamed Mohamoud, who was with UNICEF's water and sanitation and hyg
(SomaliNet) In the latest assassination targeting aid workers, a regional official in Somalia accused Islamist rebels on Monday of killing a U.N. employee.
On Sunday, unidentified gunmen shot dead Muktar Mohammed Hassan, a local man working for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in the
(SomaliNet) A maritime official said Tuesday that armed pirates in speedboats have hijacked an Indian dhow with 13 crew members off the northern coast of Somalia.
The cargo-laden vessel was en route to Somalia from Asia when it was seized over the weekend, said Noel Choong, head of the Internatio
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104 Children Released From Prison in Somaliland Steps taken to protect children’s rights in justice proceedings
24 October 2008, Nairobi
104 children aged 15–18 have been released from eight prisons in Somaliland (Northwest Somal
(SomaliNet) An alliance spokesman said Wednesday that NATO warships will start to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia in the next few days and escort aid ships to the largely lawless Horn of Africa country.
"In a few days, operations will begin," chief NATO spokesman James Appathurai told repo
(SomaliNet) The Somali government is looking into the possibility of sending the Maritime Self-Defense Force there in an effort to cope with rampant pirate attacks in the waters off the Somali coast.
Meanwhile, shipping companies, for their part, have been taking measures to deal with pirates, bu
(SomaliNet) Intense fighting between Somalia’s Abyssinian government soldiers and their archrivals the insurgents has on Wednesday morning commenced at Hiliwa district in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
According to witnesses, the combat started after the Islamists have attacked Haila Barise edi
(SomaliNet)Russia, which sent a warship to Somalia's coast to combat pirates, asked Somalia on Thursday for carte blanche to use force in its territorial waters.
Moscow sent the frigate Neustrashimy last month to the Gulf of Aden. The Russian navy said at the time its ships would regularly patro
(SomaliNet) Regional officials said on Thursday that the French navy has arrested eight suspected pirates and handed them over to authorities in the breakaway Somali region of Puntland.
Puntland presidential adviser Bile Mohamoud Qabowsade said French marines in the Gulf of Aden arrested the men
(SomaliNet) A maritime watchdog said on Thursday that Somali pirates were now responsible for nearly a third of all reported attacks on ships, often taking hostages and using high levels of violence.
63 of the 199 piracy incidents recorded worldwide in the first nine months of 2008 occurred in th
