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Somalis trickle back to relative calm of capital
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Minibuses with mattresses strapped to the roof ferried scores of Somalis back to their shell-shattered capital on Monday, three ...
Read More »Displaced facing cholera threat
NAIROBI, 30 April 2007 (IRIN) - An outbreak of cholera and acute watery diarrhoea is adding to the dire humanitarian conditions endured by the homeles...
Read More »Mogadishu battle not yet won, AU commander warns
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Thousands poured back into Mogadishu on Monday after a four-day calm, but an African Union commander warned that fighting could erup...
Read More »Ministers push for regional cyber marine cable project
NEW Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) ministerial conference in Dar es Salaam has resolved to push for speedy implementation of the stalled ...
Read More »Looting troops prey on Somalia's refugees
During a lull in fighting in Mogadishu yesterday, survivors picked their way through the post-apocalyptic landscape of Somalia's capital, quickly bury...
Read More »UPDF Commander Lt. General Katumba in Mogadishu
Kampala (New Vision) - The Land Force commander of the UPDF, Lt. Gen. Katumba Wamala, has made a desperate plea to the international community to com...
Read More »More families return to Mogadishu
MOGADISHU (AFP) - More families returned to the Somali capital as calm held for a third day after more than a week of fierce battles between Ethiopian...
Read More »U.S. force aims to secure Africa
The United States hopes by year's end to establish an Africa Command that will anchor military operations across a continent seen to be of increasing ...
Read More »$536,000 aid for Mogadishu hospitals approved
JEDDAH — The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has approved an allocation of $536,000 as emergency assistance to purchase drugs and medical kits for ho...
Read More »How the war in Somalia could spread
Starved and terrified civilians fleeing their homes. The stench of death hovering over the steaming streets. Tanks and missiles blasting through the n...
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