(SomaliNet) Urging foreigners to let Somalis resolve their problems, Eritrea said that regional and United Nations (UN) efforts to restore stability in Somalia are doomed to fail.
According to reports, Eritrea's government stressed "the solution to the problems in Somalia can only be ensured thro
(SomaliNet) Local residents and aid workers said on Tuesday that devastating floods left an estimated 12,000 people homeless in southern Somalia, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses.
The floods triggered by torrential rains started sweeping residential areas in Bardhere, some 440 kilometr
(SomaliNet) A 13-year-old girl who had been raped by three men was stoned to death by Somali fundamentalists last week, the UN children's organisation UNICEF and Amnesty International both said.
Original reports from Somalia claimed that the victim was a 23-year-old woman who had committed adulte
(SomaliNet) The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has condemned last week’s stoning to death of a 13-year-old Somali girl who was a victim of rape.
The Somali child, Aisha Duhulow was stoned to death in a stadium full of spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo on 27 October aft
(SomaliNet) The deaths of at least 40 humanitarian or human rights workers this year, and the ever growing threat of attack by armed groups and militias, is putting at least three million Somalis at even greater risk of malnutrition and disease, Amnesty International said today.
In a new report
(SomaliNet) Demanding their immediate release, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations condemned "mostly strongly" the kidnapping of four aid workers and two pilots in Somalia earlier in the day.
"The secretary-general most strongly condemns the abduction of four aid workers and two
(SomaliNet) Gunmen raided an airstrip in central Somalia Wednesday and kidnapped four foreign aid workers with the French NGO "Action Contre la Faim" (ACF - Action Against Hunger) and their two pilots.
ACF said in a statement that the kidnappings took place at around midday (0900 GMT) in Dhusa Ma
(SomaliNet) Officials said armed men ambushed a convoy in Somalia on Wednesday, taking four European aid workers and two Kenyans hostage.
French aid group Action Against Hunger said the attack took place in the town of Dhusamareb, about 360 miles (580 km) north of the capital, Mogadishu, when th
(SomaliNet) In the latest in a string of attacks on the humanitarian community In Somalia, two gunmen have fatally shot an aid worker as he walked out of a mosque in Somalia, witnesses say.
At least 16 aid workers have been killed in Somalia, so far this year, which is caught up in a civil war wi
(SomaliNet) Local media reports said Sunday that an aid worker has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in the southern Somali town of Jamame, in Lower Jubba province.
Mohamoud Mohamed Osman, local head of Mercy Corps aid agency in Jamame, 450 km south of Mogadishu, was gunned down as he left mosque
