Media reports say that pirates off Somalia have seized a UK-flagged cargo ship with 25 crewmembers. The Bulgarian foreign ministry said that the Asian Glory was taken 1,000 kilometers off the Horn of Africa nation’s coast. After the seizure of the chemical tanker St. James Park on Monday, the Asian Glory which has a multi-national [...]
A spokesman for al-Shabab, a Somali group opposed to the country’s transitional government, has denied responsibility for a suicide bombing in the capital that killed at least 22 people. The group did not target civilians and accused the government of being behind the attack, Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage said on Friday. He said, “We declare [...]
Spain’s prime minister said Tuesday that all 36 crew members of a Spanish fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates more than a month ago have been freed along with their vessel. In a news conference, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced, “Our sailors of the Alakrana are free and will come home. These tough [...]
According to local officials and witnesses in Mogadishu, militants who control parts of Somalia’s capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical brand of Islamic law. According to a female maize trader at the Mogadishu market, “Just today, Al-Shabaab dispatched men with whips to the streets around Bakara market and they [...]
The suicide attack that killed 21 African Union peacekeepers was the right thing to do, a radical Islamist leader in Somalia said Sunday. Thursday’s attack was meant to defend Islam, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys added. Addressing hundreds of people during a religious sermon at the Mogadishu suburb of Elashabiyaha, Aweys said, “The Islamic religion permits [...]
At least 21 people, mostly African Union peacekeepers, were killed after a suicide bombing on the peacekeeping mission in Somalia’s capital Thursday. Disguised in two UN-marked vehicles, suicide bombers rammed through the security gate of the mission’s headquarters, which is attached to Mogadishu’s airport. The African Union’s special representative for Somalia, Nicolas Bwakira, said that [...]
American officials said that a US Special Forces raid in Somalia on Monday may have killed a wanted al Qaeda terrorist. Several people were killed including one the US military believes was Saleh ali Saleh Nabhan, a senior al Qaeda operative, when Special Forces used a helicopter to fire on a car in southern Somalia. [...]
A 20-year-old man reported missing in Minneapolis has been killed in Somalia, according to his mother. Jamal Bana‘s body was identified by his parents through an online photo while viewing news on Saturday. The mother, Abayte Ahmed, said that after seeing the photo, she and her husband spoke by phone to someone in Somalia and [...]
