Somalia

A voluminous, still unpublished internal report by an inquiry commission [...]

SIGNED ON THE DOTTED...

Giving in finally to pressure from the United Nations acting special envoy in Somalia, Lansana Kouyate, the leaders of the [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it is [...]

IMPASSE IN NAIROBI

The signature of a common declaration by the heads of Somalia's political factions, tentatively scheduled for March 20 in Nairobi, [...]

SMALL BUSINESSES - OR NGOS

The United Nations Operations in Somalia (UNOSOM) has suspended registration of Somali non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with which its humanitarian department [...]

THE INDIANS OF BAIDOA

The situation in Baidoa, a zone north-west of Mogadiscio under the control of the Indian contingent of UNOSOM 2, worsened [...]

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TOUCHY TALKS IN NAIROBI

As United States units withdraw without glory from Somalia, the United Nations acting special envoy to the country, Lansana Kouyate, began a round of "informal" negotiations in Nairobi on March 11 with representatives of the rival Somali factions in a [.

GEORGE BENNETT

For the past nine months, George Bennett, the head of UNOSOM 2's radio transmitter Radio Maanta, has been calling in [...]

PRISONERS OF DIPLOMACY

The last Somalis held prisoner by UNOSOM 2 (in fact, they were held in detention by the United states contingent) [...]

Some five hundred to six hundred US marines commanded by [...]

CONFLICT AT MERCA

Members of the Somali National Alliance (SNA) headed by general Mohamed Farah Aideed were in conflict by supporters of the [...]

REVIEW OF AID FOR LOCAL POLICE

A report drafted by the secretariat of United Nations secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali says that eight thousand former members of [...]

ALI MAHDI MOHAMED

The interim president of Somalia (and leader of the twelve [...]

TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH

Somalia's interim president, Ali Mahdi Mohamed, arrived in Cairo on February 28 at the invitation of the Egyptian head of [...]

MOHAMED IBRAHIM EGAL

The president of Somaliland announced last week that he would [...]

UNOSOM 2 has finally decided it will recruit a private [...]

Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur will be organizing, in collaboration [...]

HARTI ALLIANCE SPONSORED BY UN

Following the so-called Harti conference (from the common name of the Dolbahante, Mejertein and Warsangeli tribes belonging to the Darod [...]

The United Nations has asked Zimbabwe to send a second [...]