Shabelle News
President Hassan: We Will Do Our Best and Unite With Our Brothers from Somaliland by Early Next Year
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 11:39
The president of the federal republic of Somalia, Mr. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud who addressed the media today in Mogadishu said that talks with Somaliland will continue and hopes to reconcile and reunite with the Somaliland administration in coming months.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 11:32
The International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has revealed that piracy on the world’s seas is at its lowest third-quarter level since 2006, but warns of the threat of continuing violent attacks off the East and West coasts of Africa.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 11:30
Uganda People’s Defense Force soldiers recently completed a 10-week joint engagement with U.S. Marines and Sailors assigned to Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Africa for a deployment to Somalia later this year.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:16
Ethiopia has arrested three suspects in connection with Sunday’s bomb blast in which two people were killed.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:14
Arms are being transferred from Somalia into Kenya through hawala, an unregulated and traditional Somali transfer system that works with a network of agents, according to immigration officials and hawala brokers here.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:13
UK firm Dryad Maritime Intelligence has warned that the attack of two vessels in the space of four days indicates that maritime piracy has returned to West African waters.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 07:55
The U.S. deployment of 200 Marines to a naval base in Sicily for possible operations in Libya, a short hop across the Mediterranean, underlines how the Americans have been building a network of bases in Italy as launch pads for military interventions in Africa and the Mideast.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 09:38
Africa’s relations with the International Criminal Court (ICC) are in tatters after a special summit of the African Union (AU) resolved that cases against the presidents of Kenya and Sudan should be deferred and that serving heads of state and government should be immune from prosecution.
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 08:10
A raid in Tanzania has netted 11 suspects police say are linked to al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda affiliate, in a sign of how security forces in East Africa are working to penetrate terror networks following a four-day siege on a Kenyan shopping mall.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 07:56
The reinforcements have already started arriving, armed extremists posted along the coastline and the rest of town, guarding against any more attacks on their stronghold, witnesses say. People suspected of spying for the enemy have been rounded up and arrested, residents say, adding to a sense that the worst is far from over.