(SomaliNet) Witnesses and police said a roadside bomb killed a Somali police commander on Tuesday in the southern town of Merka, the latest in a string of attacks on government officials.
According to the sources, Deputy police chief for Lower Shabelle region Lieutenant Colonel Nuriye Ali Farah d
(SomaliNet) A Canadian oil company that says its exploring for oil in northern Somalia's Puntland province has hired foreign security guards to protect oil workers after a botched kidnapping earlier this month, sources said.
The foreign guards hired by Africa Oil Corp. are reportedly from Western
(SomaliNet) Some five countries took to task Somali Transitional Federal Government leaders over failure to end turmoil in Somalia.
Inter-Governmental Authority on Development Council of Ministers chairman Seyoum Mesfin who is Ethiopia’s Foreign Affairs Minister and Kenyan Moses Wetang’ula le
(SomaliNet) According to officials and witnesses, suicide attacks rocked government and United Nations offices in two regions of northern Somalia on Wednesday, killing or wounding dozens of people and shattering a sense of relative calm there.
Faisal Hayle, a security official in Mogadishu for th
(SomaliNet) In an incident that comes when international leaders held talks on ending decades of deadly turmoil in Somalia, a wave of suicide bombings killed more than 20 people Wednesday in northern Somalia.
Reports indicate that the five seemingly coordinated attacks targeted a U.N. compound, t
(SomaliNet) In an effort to stamp out rampant piracy off the coast of Somalia, the Kenyan government on Wednesday called on the international community with naval ships deployed around the Horn of Africa.
The increased incidents of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the Somalia coastline have tak
(SomaliNet) The international community should provide more resources to enable the region deploy more peacekeepers to war-torn Somalia, African leaders said on Wednesday.
Out of 8,000 Africa Union peacekeeping troops that were approved for Somalia, about 3,400 forces were in Somalia, the leaders
(SomaliNet) In an effort to restore peace in Somalia, Somali leaders have been urged to form a new cabinet within two weeks.
Those members of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) should appoint a cabinet within 15 days, five presidents attending a regional summit in Nairobi, Kenya, said on W
(SomaliNet) The United States (US) condemned Wednesday a wave of suicide bombings in Somalia which it blamed on "a small minority of violent extremists."
"The United States condemns the terrorist attacks in Somaliland and Puntland," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement. "
(SomaliNet) Police said the presidential palace was one of three targets in simultaneous suicide car bomb attacks on Wednesday in Hargeysa, the capital of the northern Somali breakaway state of Somaliland.
"The office of the president was among the three positions targeted by terrorists," a seni
