by Letta Tayler and Chris Albin-Lackey, Human Rights Watch Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya--For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mort...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A powerful Islamist group linked to al-Qaida on Wednesday ordered two radio stations in southwestern Somalia to stop broadc...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
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AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An Islamic insurgent group that controls much of this lawless nation has released a video showing its members vowing alleg...
Global Post | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
Tristan McConnell | GlobalPost NAIROBI, Kenya -- A strike by six U.S. helicopter gunships on an Al Qaeda target in Somalia on Monday marks a dramat...
AP | Abdi Sheikh | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Gunmen stormed a U.N. aid compound in Somalia overnight, sparking a gunbattle that killed three of the attackers and wounded...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
The notorious Somali Islamist group al Shabaab is yanking gold and silver teeth from the mouths of people in southern Somalia for transgressing from I...
Christian Science Monitor | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
The Horn of Africa is a hotbed of pirates, Islamic radicals, warlords, refugees, and, lately, foreign armies trying to influence this killing field. T...
McClatchy | Shashank Bengali | Posted 09.04.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Late last year, 17-year-old Aliow Ali Hassan vanished from his adopted home in Kenya, leaving behind a teenage wife, three children ...
BBC News | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
Kenya has promised to reinforce its border with Somalia after several abductions near the frontier....
Andrew Belonsky | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
Somalis are given two alluring choices: join the Islamists' fight or head to the high seas. There's no state to either welcome them or be aligned with.
Reuters | Posted 07.23.2009 | World
MOGADISHU, June 22 (Reuters) - Somali's al Shabaab insurgents sentenced four teenagers on Monday to each have a hand and a leg amputated as punishment...
allAfrica | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Since fighting broke out last month between Government forces and armed opposition groups, almost 100,000 people have been driven from their homes in ...
Daily Telegraph | Mike Pflanz | Posted 06.15.2009 | World
Insurgents linked to al-Qaeda are on the verge of toppling Somalia's Western-backed government amid the worst fighting in the country's capital in mor...
Daily Nation | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
Four aid workers have been kidnapped in Somalia. The victims are a Somali local staff and three expatriates. The kidnap took place in Wajid district,...
Washington Post | Posted 04.11.2009 | World
Senior U.S. counterterrorism officials are stepping up warnings that Islamist extremists in Somalia are radicalizing Americans to their cause, citing ...
DAILY NATION | Reuters News Service | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
Somalia's hardline Islamist insurgent group al Shabaab said today it had introduced sharia law in Baidoa, a day after taking the town that had been a ...
Daily Nation | By ABDULKADIR KHALIF | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
The last Ethiopian soldiers left Baidoa town, 240km southwest of Mogadishu on Monday. Baidoa is the base of Somalia's Transitional Federal Parliame...
Chris Albin-Lackey | Posted 01.29.2009 | World
US policy not only has displayed a callous disregard for the basic human rights of Somalis, but it has failed on its own terms, breeding the very extremism it sought to eliminate.
Posted 11.10.2009 | World