Somalia’s Parliament votes on Monday for a new president in what the UN has described as a historic election for the war-torn nation.
Turkish Airlines has landed its maiden flight to Mogadishu, the first international commercial flight to the war-torn capital of Somalia in 20 years.
Somalia’s president pleaded for help on Monday at a regional summit, as an al-Qaeda-inspired insurgency closed in on his Mogadishu palace.
No image available
/ 29 January 2010
VIPs on Friday feted the first year of Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed’s shaky rule as fighting rocked a theatre where they were gathered.
Heavy fighting erupted on Tuesday in a previously quiet part of the Somali capital sending hundreds of residents fleeing, officials said.
Somalia’s top exiled Islamist leader on Wednesday pledged his camp’s commitment to a new peace drive but warned the movement would keep up its struggle against what it calls Ethiopian occupation. "Members of the international community are trying to help Somalis overcome their differences and we will do all we can," Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said.
No image available
/ 10 November 2007
Ethiopian troops shelled suspected Islamist hideouts on Friday in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, where some of the worst clashes in months have left at least 43 dead in two days, many of them civilians. The escalating violence came as the Ethiopian army tried to flush out pockets of insurgents in southern districts of the Somali capital.
No image available
/ 30 October 2007
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed called crisis talks on Tuesday to find a new prime minister as the country’s shaky government faced a mounting challenge from Islamist rebels.