Somalia

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 [...]

The European Investment Bank is providing ECU 16.8 million (US$20.8 [...]

A TASK FORCE FOR BOUTROS-GHALI

United Nations secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali has called on France, Great Britain, Italy and the United States to set up [...]

OSMAN ATO

The personal treasurer to general Mohamed Farah Aideed, the leader [...]

SOMBRE PICTURE OF US INTELLIGENCE

United States Army sources have drawn a pretty sombre picture of the US army's intervention in Somalia as a contingent [...]

LAST-CHANCE CONFERENCE

A delegation of seven from the United Nations Security Council led by ambassador Colin Keating, New Zealand's permanent representative to [...]

AIDEED'S "G12"

The twelve heads of Somali factions who signed the appeal of general Mohamed Farah Aideed (USC-SNA) for a conference of [...]

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 [...]