All Africa (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
At least 8 people were killed and more than 17 others injured in Heavy fighting between Somali government forces and insurgents in south and northern Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said.
Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lured by promises of a better future, thousands of young Africans from nations neighbouring Somalia are being recruited itno the conflict in the capital, Mogadishu. Al Jazeera has spoken to families in Northern Kenya who say their men and children are being taken off to train in secret camps, and that the Kenyan government is involved. Mohammed [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Nwetwork ) - At least two people have been killed and five others injured after heavy fighting with bitter shelling between the Islamist fighters and transitional government troops started in the north of Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Saturday.
Obnoxio The Clown (Free subscription) | yesterday
I mean, we already knew this, but consider this gem : @shanegreer @wallaceme It's like Boris liking the Clash. How can he listen to something which is fundamentally opposed to everything he is? I think she's actually fucking serious, too. I'd like to point out to the Dishonourable Member (and I use the term in its most ribald sense!) for Mogadishu East that not everyone defines themselves completely...
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's government expects a settlement in about three weeks with pirates holding hostage 36 crew of a Spanish fishing vessel, a source close to the Somalian prime minister said Sunday.
George Szirtes (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
I rarely lift an entire post but I want to make an exception. Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka. An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby.... This is...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
In Southern Somalia, Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was stoned to death for adultery as a crowd of 300 watched. He had confessed to an Islamist court. His pregnant girlfriend will meet the same fate , death by stoning, after she gives birth. "He was screaming and blood was pouring from his head during the stoning. After seven minutes he stopped moving," an eyewitness told the BBC. The BBC...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The transitional government officials have held ceremony for appointing new administration for Banadir region in Mogadishu on Friday and appointed new governor for the region replacing the former mayor of the Somali capital Mr.Mohamed Osman Ali (Dhagahtur).
Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Islamic perfection ~ what a cut-throat business! Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka. An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby. Islamist groups run much...
Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
An interesting article in Al Arabiya discusses how marriage has turned into a legal way of sleeping around for young Somalians, helped by random calls on inexpensive cell phones: Bile Farah, 25, said marriages nowadays have become more of an "entertainment." "I don't think I'd be sane if it were not for the 'Qudbasiro', free-of-charge secret marriages," the unemployed secondary...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Unidentified gunmen have attacked one of the Islamist officials of Hisbul Islam in out of the Somali capital Mogadishu killing 1, injuring the assaulted official in south of the country, officials told Shabelle radio on Friday.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Somali's Hizbul Islam rebel leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys has on Thursday held talks with businessmen in the capital Mogadishu to push for the support of the war against the Somali government and the foreign peacekeeping forces.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
At least 3 people were killed and nine others wounded in a battle among Somali government forces in the capital Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reports on Thursday.
The Whig (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
So let's just get this straight -- soccer, dancing, and movies are forbidden. But civil war, female genital mutilation, and stoning adulterers are permitted. Somali Insurgent Group Bans Cell Phone Ringtones Ever since Al Shabaab insurgents seized the southern Somali port of Kismayu, Sacdiyo Sheeq, 25, can no longer listen to her favorite Bollywood songs on her cell phone, Reuters reported. "Al...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
At least two people have been killed and three others have been wounded in Mogadishu after clash between police soldiers and gunmen dressing soldiers' uniform started at Zobe intersection in the capital, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
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