Somalia

FIGHTING IN HARGEISA

Armed units loyal to president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal were engaged in Hargeisa in the morning of October 15 against a [...]

Delegates of twelve Somali factions issued an appeal on October [...]

GENERAL AIDEED'S ETHIOPIAN FRIEND

Lisane Yohannes, the permanent representative in Mogadiscio since 1992 of the Inter-African Committee of Reconciliation (the five-nation body presided by [...]

WHEELER-DEALERS IN MOGADISCIO

According to some Somali sources, colonel Abdulahi Yussuf Ahmed, the contested leader of Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF) who was [...]

EPISTLE TO BOUTROS-GHALI

In a letter dated September 25 addressed to United Nations secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the UN Security Council, the [...]

EMBASSY FOR SALE

Employees of the Somali embassy in Nairobi who were working there at the time of the destitution of the former [...]

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BOSASO THRIVES ON RANSOM

Hijacking fishing boats and then demanding a stiff ransom from the shipowners has developed into a thriving trade off the Somali coast, and one group of Mejertein pirates are believed to have raked in nearly US$2 million that way in [.

KOFI ANNAN

The head of the United Nations department for peacekeeping operations [...]

FIRMNESS BY ARAB LEAGUE

A delegation headed by the president of Somaliland, Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, met the secretary general of the Arab League, Ismat [...]

ABDIRIZAK HAJI HUSSEIN

Somalia's former prime minister, who had for a time been [...]

The Somali language service of an Italian radio station announced [...]

ABDULAHI YUSSUF AHMED

Delegates to the Somali Salvation Democratic Front's fifth congress have re-elected colonel Abdulahi Yussuf Ahmed as chairman of the political [...]

HIGH-WIRE FISHING

An Italian-registered fishing vessel, the Airone, carrying thirty-two crew members was boarded by Mejertein clansmen on August 13 when offshore [...]

END OF SSDF CONGRESS

A communique released on August 25 under the signature of Dahir Mire Jibril, who is information secretary for colonel Abdulahi [...]

ZIMBABWE TEACHES DE-MINING

The Zimbabwean firm Mine-Tech has won a United Nations-financed contract to set up a school in Somalia to train de-miners. [...]

EXPULSION FOR INTERFERING UN REPS

Representatives of the United Nations were expelled from Somaliland last week after the authorities of the self-declared republic accused them [...]

WAITING FOR THE SSDF CONGRESS

Originally scheduled for June 20 at Gardo in north-east Somalia, some 250 km south of Bosaso on the Gulf of [...]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) last week [...]

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NORTH-EAST AT BOILING POINT

The opening of the fifth congress of Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF), scheduled for June 20 (ION N° 629) at Gardo (250 km south of Bosaso in north-east Somalia) was delayed due to intense political competition between partisans of colonel [.