UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- The UN independent expert on human rights in Somalia has welcomed a peace agreement between the country's transitional government and an opposition group, according to a statement published...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A local governor says two German hostages have been freed in Somalia. Muse Geele Yusuf, the governor of Bari region, said the hostages were released Friday night. They had been held since June in a...
Posted to the web 18 July 2008 A court in Somalia's Puntland regional autonomy has dismissed 9 men held in suspicion of terror activities, while sentencing an alleged insurgent to a 12-year prison term. The Bari Regional Court,...
SLIM PICKINGS Worried about tight supplies, women in Islamabad, Pakistan, scramble for rice distributed at the Bari Imam Shrine Farooq Naeem / AFP / Getty Images As the sun sets over Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum, a sweet...