Somalia

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UNOSOM'S ROUT(E) MARCH

Originally scheduled for the end of March, the departure of the last 8,000 men in contingents of the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) has now been brought forward a full month under the needling pressure of the United States.

NOW THEY'RE SHOOTING FOR BANANAS

Two trading companies who have spent the past several months squabbling over Somali bananas are now reported to have stepped [...]

DAVID MORRIS

New Zealand businessman David Morris, who is chairman of Morris Supplies, a company with an annual turnover of US$150 million [...]

AND THE SHILLING CAME TUMBLING DOWN

The progressive cutback on money in circulation in Mogadiscio, as military contingents and civilian officials in the United Nations Operation [...]

GUERISSA REGION SEES COMBAT

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Issa militia controlling the zone around Zeila and Guerissa in western [...]

MURDER MOST FOUL

According to a confidential report of the Italian intelligence service submitted to the government, the murder of two Italian journalists [...]

In a bid to avoid the attention of Mejertein pirates, [...]

BEHIND A KIDNAP

Rudy Marcq, the logistics officer of French NGO International Action Against Hunger (AICF), was released from captivity last week after [...]

Mejertein pirates of the Osman Mahmoud subclan (although the pirates [...]

MEJERTEIN PIRATES' TARIFF

Somali Highseas Fishing Company (SHIFCO) finally had to hand over US$1 million to get the release on January 9 of [...]

Following negotiations in Yemen between Mugne Said Omar, the head [...]

PIRATES AHOY!

The head of Somali High Seas Fishing Company (SHIFCO), Mugne Said Omar, invited Boqor (king) Abdulahi Musse (aka King Kong, [...]

The United States is to send a task force of [...]

BELGIAN PARAS MARCHED INTO COURT

One year after the Belgian army contingent in UNOSOM left Kisimayo, the trial of eight paratroops charged with grave offences [...]

CIVILIANS QUITTING HARGEISA

Latest fighting in Hargeisa on December 4 has still not allowed government forces loyal to president Ibrahim Mohamed Egal to [...]

The Arab League secretariat in Cairo issued a call on [...]

MOUSSA BIHI

Relations are turning sour between Somaliland's president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal [...]

SITUATION IS VERY CONFUSED

The situation remained confused all this week in Hargeisa where fighting had been reported on the night of November 14-15 [...]

ARMED CONFLICT IN HARGEISA

Armed units supporting Somaliland president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal attacked the Somali National Movement's Force III unit (made up of ex-guerrilla [...]