Somalia

MOHAMED HERSI HAILE

Describing himself as the minister of trade in the interim goverment under Ali Mahdi in Somalia, while also claiming to [...]

AN ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

According to the "Trends in Developing Economies 1992" handbook produced by the World Bank, the Comoros Islands "slackened off" at [...]

MOAHMED FARAH AIDEED

The leader of the Somali National Alliance (SNA) formed around [...]

The Somaliland representative in Paris, Galery Gourreh Hussein wrote to [...]

KENYAN HELICOPTER HOSTAGE

According to statement issued by the Kenyan Presidential Office signed by Major M'Imathiu and issued on the evening of September [...]

When the United States recently decided to sent a naval [...]

PRESIDENT MISSES IMPORTANT MEETING

Somaliland's president, Abdurahmane Ahmed Ali "Tur" who visited Djibouti last week to meet with the Italian minister of foreign affairs [...]

AN NGO CRITICAL OF UNITED NATIONS

At a press conference in Nairobi on September 9, the heads of the French and Dutch branches of the humanitarian [...]

MOHAMED ABSHIR

There are at least two activists in Somalia who share [...]

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MAPPING OUT THE CONFLICT

The United Nations Security Council decision on August 28 to send an additional 3,000 UN troops to Somalia, to protect food aid convoys in the country, is the boldest move the organisation will have made in Africa for years.

PETER JON DE VOS

Former ambassador to Liberia, Peter Jon De Vos was appointed by President George Bush in May to the post of [...]

REASON TO FIGHT IN KISIMAYO

Fighting erupted last week in the port of Kisimayo, between the forces of the recently formed Somali National Alliance (SNA) [...]

DIPLOMACY AND HUMANITARIAN AID

After months of indifference, the aid for Somalis threatened with famine because of drought and civil war, both in Somalia [...]

FINALLY TAKING ACTION

The United Nations Security Council decided unanimously to follow the proposal of the organisation's secretary general, Bhoutros Bhoutros Ghali and [...]

AIDEED'S USC SLAMS UN

In a broadcast by the supporters of Mohamed Farah Aideed's United Somali Congress (USC) from the Somali capital, Mogadishu picked [...]

COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION

According to pro-Ali Mahdi Mohamed Mogadishu radio picked up by the BBC, the interim Somali president opened a satellite telecommunication [...]

British company, Rimfaire, that has sent four British mine removal [...]

The United Nations is preparing to issue another appeal for [...]

Clashes were reported in north-east Somalia last week between the [...]