Mogadishu

Senior local aid worker gunned down in south Somalia

MOGADISHU, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- An aid worker has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in the southern Somali town of Jamame, in Lower Jubba province, the latest in series of killing of humanitarian workers in the war-ravaged Horn of...

Kidnapped Bulgarian Aid Worker Held in Mogadishu for Ransom

The group of the six kidnapped in Somalia foreign humanitarian aid workers, including one Bulgarian, have been secretly transported to the capital Mogadishu, according to a source form the Islamic terrorist al-Shabab...

Ten die as renewed fighting escalates in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Ten people were killed including three Ethiopian soldiers and 16 others were wounded as Islamist insurgent fighters carried out a number of concerted attacks on military bases of Somali government...

Kidnapped Foreign Aid Workers 'Taken to Mogadishu' - Sources

A group of six foreigners who were kidnapped Wednesday in the town of Dhusamareb in central Somalia have been secretly transported to the national capital Mogadishu, informed sources told Garowe Online.

Somalia: Regional Council Named to Elect Next Mogadishu Mayor

Posted to the web 7 November 2008 Somalia's interim government has named a regional council to prepare the country's capital city to elect its next mayor, Radio Garowe reported Thursday. Seats in the new Banadir Regional...

Six French aid workers kidnapped in Somalia

Paris-based group says 4 non-Somali nationals and 2 drivers were kidnapped Six were taken in the town of Dusa Marreb, near the capital, Mogadishu Workers belonged to French aid group Action Against Hunger PARIS, France (AP) --...

Islamist rebels flog two Somali men for torture: official

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali Islamists on Tuesday flogged two men convicted of torturing a family of three, and killing of one of them in the process, in the capital Mogadishu, officials and witnesses said Tuesday.

Gunmen kidnap group of foreign, local Somali aid workers

Mogadishu: Gunmen stormed an airstrip in central Somalia on Wednesday, kidnapping a group of foreign and local aid workers, witnesses and humanitarian sources said. Amid confused initial reports, locals spoke of between three...

Floods displace thousands in Somalia

25 people have died and hundreds left homeless, after floods in south-western Gedo region displaced families around Bar-dhere. Inhabitants said the banks of Juba river flooded a number of villages in the town 580km South of...

Somalia: The Third Front Revisited

Excerpt: President Bush has often stated that history will be the rightful judge of his legacy. Some academics, such as John Lewis Gaddis and Fareed Zakaria, have already begun early revisions of the Bush years.