Lessons of War
By Dr. Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings This week marks the 23rd anniversary of the Rwanda genocide and our prayers are with the people of Rwanda whose foundations were shattered and who are still healing...
Tag: somalia
New Somali Army Chief Escapes Deadly Car Bombing
Somalia's new army chief escaped a car bombing Sunday that killed at least five people in a bloody response by Shabaab militants to the president's declaration of war on the group. A suicide bomber...
Five Suspected Al Shabaab Militants Executed In Somalia For Killing Officials
The court said the accused were members of the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region on Saturday executed five people it said were Islamist militants...
Death Toll In Somali Military Base Bomb Attack Rises To At Least 15
At least 15 people were killed when a car bomb exploded outside a military base in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Sunday, including some in a van that was destroyed, military officials said. The...
Somaliland Court Jails Journalist Two Years For
National Union of Somali Journalists said the ruling was a threat to independent media A court in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland has sentenced a reporter to two years in jail for what it...
New Army Chief Survives Deadly Mogadishu Bomb Blast
Somalia's new military boss has survived a suspected suicide car bomb attack that has killed at least 15 people, according to police. General Mohamed Ahmed Jimale, who was recently named new chief of...
Hijacked Ship’s Crew Rescued From Pirates Near Somalia
Nineteen crew members have been freed from a ship captured by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Maritime officials received an alert on Saturday that pirates had boarded the timber-carrying ship...
Three Dead In Mogadishu Mortar Attack
At least three people have been killed and several others wounded in mortar attacks in Somalia's capital a day after the country's new president declared a war on the militant group al-Shabab. Four...
Al-Shabab Dismisses Somali President War Declaration
Al-Shabab says President Farmajo's, centre-left, threats to defeat them are not new Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab has dismissed President Mohamed Abdullahi Faramajo's declaration of war....
Al-Shabab Fighters Offered Amnesty As New Somali President Declares War
Somalia’s new president has offered al-Shabab militants a 60-day amnesty amid a declaration of war on the group. Fighters who gave themselves up would receive training, employment and education,...
Five Aid Workers Kidnapped In Somalia
No group has said it was behind the abduction yet Armed men have abducted five aid workers from the central Somali town of Beledweyne, locals have confirmed to the BBC Somali service. The staff, who...
Somalia Leader Declares Country A ‘war Zone’
Somalia's new president has declared the country a war zone and instructed the army to prepare a new offensive against the al-Qaeda linked group al-Shabab. The announcement by President Mohamed...
Al-Shabab Fighters Offered Amnesty As New Somali President Declares War
Somalia's new president has offered al-Shabab militants a 60-day amnesty amid a declaration of war on the group. Fighters who gave themselves up would receive training, employment and education,...
Somali President Declares New War On Shabaab, Offers Amnesty
Somalia's new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Thursday declared war against Shabaab extremists, offering amnesty to militants who surrendered within 60 days and warning the rest would "face...
Death Toll Rises In Mogadishu Bombing
Witnesses told Reuters that the blast had destroyed the cafe and damaged another one Seven people are now reported to have died in a car bomb attack on a restaurant in Mogadishu. Witnesses told...
Seven Killed In Mogadishu Car Bombing
At least seven people have been killed in a massive car bomb blast in Somalia's capital, the fourth deadly attack in the last few weeks. The explosion occurred at lunchtime on Wednesday at a...
Car Bomb Kills 7 At Mogadishu Restaurant
At least seven people were killed and 10 wounded on Wednesday when a car bomb exploded at a restaurant near the Somali ministry of internal security in Mogadishu, officials said. "There was a huge...
Drought Shatters Turkana’s Dreams of A Better Future
In just a few years water, oil and money would flow. Roads, schools and hospitals would follow. Turkana's generations of poverty and neglect in Kenya's arid north would end. But it was not to be:...
Eritrea Slams US Sanctions After North Korea Military Deal
Eritrea has criticised the United States for slapping "misguided" sanctions on its navy, a month after it emerged the secretive Horn of Africa nation tried to buy military equipment from North Korea....
Somalia Al-Shabab Islamist Militants Kidnap Aid Workers
For al-Shabab fighters, kidnapping for ransom is often a financial weapon Four aid workers have been kidnapped by members of the Somali Islamist militant group, al-Shabab, reports say. They are...