By Bill Rodgers Washington 27 April 2007 Somali Transitional Federal Soldiers with an anti-aircraft gun mounted on the pickup and soldiers carrying AK 47s in the street of Mogadishu, 27 Apr 2007 Somalia's Prime Minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi, is claiming...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 28 March 2007 The al-Qaida terrorist organization has issued a call for Islamic extremists around the world to come to the aid of Somalis fighting the country's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and its chief backer in the r...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 30 January 2007 Former diplomats and Horn of Africa experts are warning that U.S.-led efforts to stabilize Somalia through the deployment of an African peacekeeping force are likely to backfire, unless the country's weak and fr...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 22 January 2007 Some of the ten Somali men accused of piracy stand in the dock under guard of Kenyan police officers in the court in Mombasa (3 Feb 2006) Piracy attacks are falling worldwide but hot spots remain, including i...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 18 January 2007 The United Nations' special envoy to Somalia has met the country's interim president for the first time in the Somali capital Mogadishu. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu in our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi reports t...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 January 2007 The U.N. Children's Fund and Save the Children are demanding that all children associated with armed forces or groups in Somalia must be immediately released from their ranks, or from detention centers where the...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 10 January 2007 Somalia's interim-government spokesman says the government cannot confirm one of the three key al-Qaida operatives involved in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in East Africa has been killed in a U.S. air...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 09 January 2007 Interim Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (R) with his PM Ali Mohamed Gedi during a media briefing in Mogadishu, 09 Jan 2007 Somalia's interim president say a U.S. strike late Monday on al-Qaida hideouts in...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 29 December 2006 Somalia's interim Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi says his secular government troops and their Ethiopian allies are firmly in control of the capital, Mogadishu, one day after the once-powerful Islamists hastily...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 19 December 2006 A little more than six months after seizing control of the Somali capital of Mogadishu, Somalia's Islamic Courts Union is enforcing its form of law and order across a wide swath of the east African nation, home...