Somalia

ABDURAHMAN AL GAYDI

A citizen of Saudi Arabia who is probably close to his country's military intelligence service, colonel Abdurahman Al Gaydi has [...]

According to sources close to the political opposition, anti-government units [...]

GROWING BORDER FEARS

Under cover of the withdrawal of UNOSOM contingents from Somalia with a protective umbrella from the US Marine Corps, the [...]

COPYCAT PIRATES

The Mejertein pirates from Bosaso who have been making a specialty of seizing fishing vessels in the territorial waters off [...]

MOHAMED FARAH AIDEED

According to Italy's anti-corruption judge Ms. Gemma Gualdi, the leader of Somali National Alliance, general Mohamed Farah Aideed, is believed [...]

MATTEO ZUPPI

A delegation of the Roman Catholic community Sant'Egidio headed by [...]

A communique from the two principal rival faction leaders in [...]

BANANA WAR CONTINUES

Interviewed by Italian journalists, Horst Raschdorf, the German official heading Mogadiscio Port Operation Corporation (which administers the Somali capital's port) [...]

SEEING IT THEIR WAY

Once spread right across Africa, Italian cooperative assistance (except to North Africa) has been recycled in recent years into two [...]

DE NADAI FAMILY

The power behind the Somali fruit exporting group Somalfruit now fighting a bitter trade war with a giant American rival [...]

MUHAMMAD AW ALI UMAR

Somaliland's deputy defence minister died on February 5 in the [...]

THE BLOODY BANANA BUST-UP

The murder of television cameraman Marcello Palmisano, who worked for the second channel of RAI, Italy's state-owned television network, and [...]

MELES ZENAWI

According to the Arabic language daily Al Hayat of February [...]

Spotlight
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 [...]

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, [...]