OPINION: SOMALIA’S 1992 THANKSGIVING: REFLECTIONS ON U.S. HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
BY ROBERT STRONG On the eve of Thanksgiving in 1992, then-U.S. president George H. W. Bush, in his final weeks in office, approved a major...
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AU military officers meet in Somalia over counter-terrorism strategy
MOGADISHU, Nov. 21 — Senior military commanders from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) started a meeting in Mogadishu on Monday to review and...
Gun vs poll: Somali minister involved in gun fight over poll dispute
by Ahmed Mohamed MOGADISHU – In an attempt to evade an apparent loss of a parliamentary seat race to his rival candidate, Somali sports minister Mohamed...
Somalia election: AMISOM needs 4,000 troops
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has said it will require at least 4,000 more troops from African countries in order to further liberate...
Two police officers killed in Somali capital explosion
At least two police officers were killed and two others injured in a bomb explosion at a checkpoint in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday....
African Union-backed Amisom troops to start exiting Somalia in 2018
The African Union troops serving in Somalia will leave the country starting in 2018. The AU mission has trained at least 20,000 Somali soldiers ahead...
Air Djibouti resumes flights to Somalia
by Abdourahman Sahal, abdourahman.sahal@alleastafrica.com DJIBOUTI – The first flight of the Djibouti national carrier “Air Djibouti” landed at the Aden Abdulle International Airport in Mogadishu...
KENYA EXTENDS DEADLINE TO CLOSE WORLD’S LARGEST REFUGEE CAMP
Kenya’s interior minister says the government has extended by six months its deadline for sending home at least 280,000 Somali refugees to close the world’s...
AU troops kill 12 Al-Shabaab militants in S Somalia
Source: Xinhua Troops from the Africa Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have killed 12 Al-Shabaab militants and captured a town in the past two days...
Two Minnesota men sentenced for trying to aid Islamic State -local media
Two Somali-American men in Minnesota were sentenced on Tuesday for conspiring to support the Islamic State militant group, according to local media. Senior U.S. District...
