By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 17 January 2007 The U.S. ambassador to Kenya says the United States is pushing Somalia's transitional government to hold talks with all groups of Somali society to bring peace and stability to the volatile country. Meanwhile...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 10 January 2007 Tensions are running high in Somalia's capital Wednesday following a U.S. air strike on al-Qaida hideouts in the south and a statement by the interim president that ousted Islamist leaders should be punished...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 08 January 2007 Listen to Listen to VOA's exclusive interview with Jendayi Frazer Somalia's president Monday arrived in the capital Mogadishu to hold consultations with representatives from religious, civil society, busines...
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 06 January 2007 Before the Islamists lost power in much of southern Somalia earlier this month, the least known but most feared organization in the country was a radical Muslim group called the Shabbab, which means youth in A...
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 04 January 2007 In the post-Islamist Somali capital Mogadishu, a deadline for the city's militias and residents to voluntarily hand in their weapons has been largely ignored. As VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from Mogad...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 02 January 2007 Somalia's interim president is in Kenya for talks with President Mwai Kibaki and other top security officials. Meanwhile, Kenyan authorities have arrested and detained at least eight people at a border cross...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 28 December 2006 Ali Mohamed Gedi (7 Dec 2006) Somalia's prime minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi, says the government's Ethiopian-backed troops have reached entry points into the capital, Mogadishu, after Islamists abandoned the city....
By Michael Bowman Washington 25 December 2006 The Bush administration is urging a halt to conflict in Somalia that has Islamic Court fighters wait at the airport of Mogadishu, Somalia, 25 Dec 2006 intensified since neighboring Ethiopia launched air...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 22 December 2006 In Somalia, Islamist fighters and government troops continue to battle each other near the government stronghold of Baidoa, with each side claiming to have killed hundreds of troops of the other side's. Cat...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 12 December 2006 The Islamic Courts Union is threatening to attack what it says are 35,000 Ethiopian troops stationed in Somalia, unless the troops leave the country within a week. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairob...