Somalia Government

Somali Militants Attacked By Foreign Troops

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.14.2009 | World


Foreign soldiers have staged an attack on militants in Somalia, killing at least two people in a helicopter raid. The troops, who according to some r...

Somalia, Al Qaeda Haven, To Be Obama's New Afghanistan: CSM

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...

Somali Pirates Hijack Ship In Oman National Waters: NATO

Reuters | Posted 07.13.2009 | World


Suspected Somali pirates have seized a German-owned cargo ship off the coast of Oman, the first recorded attack in its territorial waters, NATO allian...

Somali Pirates' Condition Put Into Perspective: Interview

Global Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | World


By Tristan McConnell | GlobalPost BERBERA, Somaliland -- The slight figure of Farah Ismail Eid is a far cry from the swashbuckling, murderous imag...

Somalia Fighting Escalates In Capital Mogadishu

AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 06.22.2009 | World


MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hundreds of government soldiers attacked Islamic insurgents across the Somali capital amid heavy artillery shelling Friday,...

Somali Pirates May Allow Capture To Reap Asylum Benefits: Legal Experts

Telegraph | Posted 06.19.2009 | World


Somali pirates might be allowing themselves to be deliberately captured in order to take advantage of European asylum laws, Dutch legal experts have w...

Islamists Linked To Al Qaida On Verge Of Toppling Somalia's Western-Backed Government

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...

Somali President Ahmed Enacts Islamic Sharia Law; Insurgency Continues

Voice Of America | Posted 06.14.2009 | World


As Islamist insurgents continued an assault on government forces in Mogadishu, President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed signed a bill late Wednesday enacting Isl...

Somali Insurgents Vow To Topple Government

AP | MOHAMED SHEIKH NOR | Posted 06.13.2009 | World


MOGADISHU, Somalia — Pro-government militias and Islamic insurgents battled in Somalia's capital Wednesday for a fourth day, as an insurgent lea...

Somali Rebel Violence The Work Of Foreign States: Somali President

Reuters | Posted 06.11.2009 | World


Somalia's president accused Islamist insurgents on Monday of working for foreign governments trying to destabilise his Horn of Africa nation after fou...

Somali Pirates Face Growing Domestic Islamist Pushback

New York Times | Posted 06.08.2009 | World


Abshir Boyah, a towering, notorious Somali pirate boss who admits to hijacking more than 25 ships and to being a member of a secretive pirate council ...

Somali Pirate Home Base: Eyl

WardHeerNews | Posted 05.21.2009 | World


Garowe, (WDN) - The Somali pirates that have wreaked havoc on the shipping lanes of the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean in recent years have been wi...

Dog the Pirate Hunter???

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.17.2009 | Comedy


Warren Holstein

Avast, ye picaroons! If landlubber Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has his way, good ole American privateers will be set loose on ye wily pillaging Somalian buccaneers and get all War of 1812 on yer booties.

Forget "Accountability" for Somali Pirates

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.15.2009 | World


Robert Naiman

The risk will now be even greater in any future standoff: any Somali pirate taking prisoners is going to be less likely to trust the U.S., and more likely to harm an American captive.

Somali Cabinet Backs President's Plan To Implement Sharia Law

BBC | Posted 04.10.2009 | World


The cabinet in Somalia has endorsed a proposal by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to implement Islamic law in the country....

Somalia's Online Identity Crisis

Nicole Stremlau | Posted 04.07.2009 | World


Nicole Stremlau

As the internationally recognized leader of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif has the major communications challenge of selling his government both internally and externally.

Somalia Crisis: What Can Be Done (LISTEN)

Worldfocus | Posted 02.21.2009 | World


Worldfocus.org's weekly radio show explores the worsening situation in Somalia, taking a look beyond the pirate frenzy offshore and examining the caus...

2009: Another Year of Living Dangerously

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.30.2009 | World


Eric Margolis

The proud towers of Wall Street have fallen, disgorging packs of thieves and fraudsters. The mighty US suddenly exposed as the proverbial king without clothes. Uncle Sam is bankrupt.

The US Role in Somalia's Calamity

Chris Albin-Lackey | Posted 01.29.2009 | World


Chris Albin-Lackey

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.

Pirates with PR

Sean Jacobs | Posted 01.12.2009 | Media


Sean Jacobs

The pirates seem to understand that their defense does not only depend on arms. They clearly understand the worth of good PR.

Pirates Transform Villages Into Boomtowns

AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN and ELIZABETH KENNEDY | Posted 12.21.2008 | Home


MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful wome...

Somalia's Government Teetering On Collapse

New York Times | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics


The trouble started when government soldiers went to the market and, at gunpoint, began to help themselves to sacks of grain last week. Islamist insu...