By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 19 July 2007 The 53-member African Union says its peacekeeping mission in Somalia has been extended another six months because U.N. forces are not ready to take over peacekeeping duties in the war-torn country. Uganda, the only...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 July 2007 Despite escalating insurgent violence in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the country's transitional government says the much-delayed national reconciliation conference to end the country's 16-year-old civil war will...
By David Gollust State Department 26 June 2007 The United States Tuesday urged Somalia's transitional federal government to reach out as broadly as possible to clans and other factions for the national reconciliation conference planned for mid-July....
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 13 June 2007 For the third time in three months, organizers of Somalia's national reconciliation conference, due to begin this week in the capital, have postponed the talks. As VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from Mogadis...
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 12 June 2007 Police in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have intercepted a car loaded with explosives they say was going to be used against the interim government. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu in Mogadishu was given an exclusive...
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 11 June 2007 In a new sign of trouble for Somalia's transitional government, elders of the Hawiye clan, which dominates in the capital, are threatening to boycott a national reconciliation conference, scheduled to begin in fiv...
By Katy Migiro Nairobi 06 June 2007 The Somali government has closed down three main FM stations in the capital, Mogadishu. Katy Migiro reports for VOA that the media clampdown follows a surprise visit by the Ethiopian Prime Minister aimed at shoring...
By Deborah Block Minneapolis, Minnesota 13 April 2007 Since 1991, thousands of people have fled war and anarchy in the East African country of Somalia, and many have settled in the United States. The largest group is in the Midwest state of Minnesota...
By Deborah Block Minneapolis, Minnesota 04 April 2007 Watch Taxi Controversy report Many Muslim taxi drivers are refusing service to passengers carrying alcohol, and sometimes pets, at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in the Midwest U....
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 21 March 2007 The National Union of Somali Journalists is calling for Somalia's transitional government to train its armed forces not to violate media freedom. The call followed a national conference on media freedom and the...