By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 31 October 2007 About 40 international aid groups have issued a joint appeal to the international community about the growing humanitarian crisis in Somalia. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the groups say that security h...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 17 October 2007 The World Food Program (WFP) says Somali security forces have stormed the U.N. compound in the capital Mogadishu and arrested the WFP local director. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the World Food Program...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 05 October 2007 Somalia's transitional government has launched a crackdown meant to counter insurgents whose frequent attacks against government troops and Ethiopian forces have exacted a deadly toll in recent weeks. Nick Wadh...
By Tendai Maphosa London 25 September 2007 Mauritius is the best run country in Africa and Somalia is the worst, according to a new good governance index published on Tuesday. Tendai Maphosa has the details in this report for VOA from London. The fir...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 20 September 2007 Two senior U.S. officials in East Africa say the situation in Somalia is improving despite continued violence. They have pledged American support for a joint Arab-African peacekeeping force for the shattered...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 13 September 2007 Somalia's interior minister has ridiculed opposition leaders meeting in Eritrea who have formed a new group that has promised war with Ethiopian troops that are backing the government. Nick Wadhams has more f...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 10 September 2007 Many journalists in Somalia are leaving the country because of the increasing threat of violence from Islamic militias and the country's weak transitional government. As Nick Wadhams reports from the VOA offi...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 24 August 2007 International humanitarian agencies and local aid workers in Somalia say they fear that camps for internally displaced people in the southern outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu, may be the target of a military op...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 13 August 2007 The U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch has released a detailed report on the fighting that devastated the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in March and April of this year. The report concludes that Ethiopian, Somali, a...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 01 June 2007 Officials in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland have confirmed local reports that a group of armed fighters, believed to be remnants of Somalia's defeated Islamist movement, arrived in a small coastal set...