(SomaliNet) Turkish freighter ship has been hijacked by pirates off the Somali coast, a Turkey's state-run news agency says.
The ship, Neslihan with 20 crew members on board, was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, the Anatolia news agency says citing unnamed Turkish maritime authorities.
(SomaliNet) Authorities have arrested an Islamic cleric suspected of involvement in a wave of suicide attacks that killed more than 20 people, a Somali official says.
The five seemingly coordinated attacks Wednesday occurred in the breakaway republic of Somaliland and in Somalia's Puntland region
(SomaliNet) Salaam Aleikum
Dear friends
I am writing once again to update you on the recent events both inside and outside Somalia and present some ideas on the way forward. We have entered a particularly challenging period in the peace process and Somalia is counting on all your support to h
(SomaliNet) According to witnesses, grenades killed three civilians and wounded several others on Friday in southern Somalia town.
Assailants hurled a grenade at a crowded market, killing two civilians and injuring a police officer, while a third was killed in a second attack in the provincial to
(SomaliNet) Two years after Ethiopia ousted him, Somalia's top Islamist leader returned Saturday to his Jowhar stronghold, aiming to push for the implementation of a deal to restore peace.
According to reports, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, who headed the very movement that Ethiopia sought to break
(SomaliNet) Pirates fired shots at a Danish tanker in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia's coast during a failed attempt to commandeer the ship, Denmark's navy says.
According to the navy, no crew members were injured in the incident Sunday. The pirates disappeared by the time a Danish navy helicopter
(SomaliNet) The foreign ministry said on Saturday that Egypt has called an urgent meeting of Arab countries bordering the Red Sea to combat rampant piracy off Somalia.
Egypt and Yemen will coordinate the meeting, which will be held later this month, the ministry said in a statement, without speci
(SomaliNet) Five people have been killed in a bomb attack aimed at a government official in southern Somalia. A source said three bodyguards and two bystanders died in the attack.
The actual target, District Commissioner Hassan Moalim Ahmed, was injured together with six other people.
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UNICEF DEPLORES STONING OF CHILD RAPE VICTIM
Nairobi, Kenya, 4 November 2008
The UN Children's Agency, UNICEF has described last week's stoning of a 13 year old Somali girl as 'deplorable.' The girl, Aisha Duhulow, was stoned to death in a stadium of spectators in Kismayo on 27 October 2008 af
(SomaliNet) Many Somalis and Ethiopians have tried to cross the Gulf of Aden this year compared to last, The UN refugee agency says adding that hundreds however, have died in the attempt, often at the hands of smugglers.
The UNHCR spokesperson for From Geneva, Helene Caux said: "It's much worse t
