The US Navy prepared on Friday to increase pressure on Somali pirates to give up an American ship captain held hostage in a lifeboat.
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/ 23 February 2009
Somalia’s hard-line Islamist insurgent movement al-Shabaab pledged on Monday to carry out further attacks against African peacekeepers.
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/ 14 January 2009
Few Somalis expressed hope on Wednesday after Ethiopian troops quit bases in Mogadishu and Islamist insurgents said they would launch attacks.
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/ 24 December 2008
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf has decided to resign and is expected to announce his departure on Saturday, his spokesperson said.
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/ 21 November 2008
Piracy off Somalia is forcing shipping companies to avoid the Suez Canal and send cargoes on a longer journey around Southern Africa.
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/ 14 November 2008
Islamist rebels moved on Friday into a town on the outskirts of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, sparking fears among residents of renewed fighting.
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/ 24 September 2008
Islamists attacked African peacekeepers in Mogadishu, sparking a battle that killed 11 civilians and sent many fleeing the city.
Insurgents fired mortars at a plane that was due to take Somalia’s president to Djibouti, but he was unharmed and travelled to a meeting with a United Nations security council delegation, officials said on Sunday. President Abdullahi Yusuf was due to meet the delegation in Djibouti, where his interim government and opposition exiles are participating in peace talks.
Clashes between Ethiopian troops and Islamist insurgents have killed more than a dozen people in southern and central regions of Somalia, residents said. Islamist fighters, opposed to Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia to support its interim government, ambushed a convoy of Ethiopian forces in the central Hiraan region on Wednesday.
Militias allied to the Somali government recaptured a southern port from Islamists on Tuesday, taking the death toll from an upsurge of fighting in recent days to nearly 100, witnesses said. The militias recaptured Guda town, which had been taken by the Islamists’ militant al-Shabaab wing on Monday.