Aarannews (Muqdishu) Wararka naga soo gaaraya magaalooying Cadaado iyo Gaalkacyo ayaa waxa’ ay ku soo waramayaan in maanta ay laba maleeshiyo Beeleed isku farasaartay tuulooyin hoostaga gobolka Mudug ee u dhaw deegaanka Camaara iyo Bacaadweyn.  Wararka aan ka heleyno aagaga dagaalka ayaa sheegaya in 20 ruux ku dhinteen in kabadan 20-na ay ku dhaawacmeen. Dagaalka [...]

 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalia’s president wants thousands of troops trained in Kenya to be deployed to Mogadishu for an upcoming offensive against Islamist militants, but Kenya has denied the request – yet another complication for a military campaign that has already been delayed several times, officials said Tuesday.  The fact that Kenya could veto [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is considering dispatching surveillance drones and other limited military support for a Somali government offensive against al-Qaida-linked insurgents, U.S. officials said, part of a cautious move to increase U.S. assistance to the anarchic African nation.  U.S. diplomats are pressing Somali leaders to detail the goals of the looming assault, in [...]

Kenya has denied reports for the UN that many of its citizens are fighting with Somalia’s al-Shabab militants.”This is propaganda,” Francis Kimemia, a senior official at the internal security ministry told the BBC. A report to the UN Security Council said leaders of the al-Qaeda-inspired group regularly travelled to Nairobi to raise funds and recruit [...]

  Aarannews ( Mogadishu) :-  Hogaamiyaha Maleeshiyadda Dariiqada Suufiyadda ee la magac baxay kooxda Ahlusuna Waljamaaca ee ka dagaalama Gobolada dhexe , dhowaana heshiis awood qeybsi ah la gashay dowaldda FS ee reer galbeedka uu taageero ayaa ku hanjabay inuu ka taqalusi doono awooda kooxaha islaamiyiinta asal raaca ah waa sida uu hadalka u dhigaye [...]

BEFORE joining the Witness team at the launch of Al Jazeera English, Somali-born reporter Rageh Omaar worked for the BBC for over 12 years. An international correspondent covering stories from all over the world, he reported on the Kosovo War, and the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict. He was named BBC’s Developing World Correspondent and then in 2001, [...]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Ebtalada siyaasadeed ee Soomaaliya ku habsatay waa mid ka fajacineysa qof kasta oo indha-indheeya taariikhda dhow iyo xaalka-maanta (current affairs) ee dalka Soomaaliya uu  ku jiro. Waxaa dhab ah in magaala madaxda Addis Ababa ee dalka Ethiopia ay tahay meesha laga hindiso joogteynta dhibaatada siyaasadeed ee Soomaaliya iyadoo loo marayo wado kasta oo [...]

In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Zimbabwean filmmaker and columnist Farai Sevenzo warns Africa’s paranoid leaders to keep their backs against the wall until April. The month of March, I am told by those in the know, is the month of the backstabbers. It was in the middle of March that Julius Caesar [...]

The Ethiopian government is waging a sustained attack on its opponents in the run-up to an election in May, US-based Human Rights Watch says. The group accuses the ruling EPRDF party of using its control of local government to withhold services and job opportunities from political opponents. The activists also said new laws had severely [...]

// // // MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A suspected Somali pirate was killed during shooting between pirates and armed guards on board a Panamanian-flagged ship, a maritime official and the EU anti-piracy taskforce said on Wednesday. The private guards protecting the MV Almezaan returned fire as they beat back two attacks by the same gang off [...]