Accompanying Somalia's newly-appointed drought envoy on his first field visit, the United Nations' top humanitarian official for the Horn of Africa country warned on Tuesday of the devastating outlook for millions of affected Somalis, amidst (...)
Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed resigned Monday following a bitter power struggle, adding political uncertainty to the war-ravaged country's security vacuum.
“I had promised to return the power if I could not bring peace, stability and (...)
The Somali politician
named prime minister by President Abdullahi Yusuf last week
resigned on Wednesday, saying he did not want to be an obstacle
to peace in the Horn of Africa nation, according to Reuters.
Yusuf appointed Mohamed Mohamud Guled (...)
Somali President
Abdullahi Yusuf said on Tuesday he had named Mohamed Mohamud
Guled, a former interior minister, as premier, Reuters reported.
"As I had promised to appoint a prime minister within three
days I have appointed Mohamed Mohamud (...)
A bomb aimed at police
exploded in the town housing Somalia's parliament on Tuesday,
killing six civilians and injuring 13 people, witnesses said.
"It killed four children and two women."
Medics at Baidoa's hospital said they had received (...)
Two thirds of Somalia's cabinet ministers resigned on Saturday, officials said, widening a rift between the president and prime minister that threatens to wreck the country's interim government.
The 10 ministers who quit were all allies of (...)
Two thirds of Somalia's
cabinet ministers resigned on Saturday, officials said.
The 10 ministers who quit were all allies of President
Abdullahi Yusuf, who has appeared increasingly at odds with
Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein. This week, (...)
Somalia's parliament declared on Saturday a three-month state of emergency amid fears of a return of clan violence, Reuters reported.
Members of parliament in the government's interim seat of Baidoa voted 154 to two to ratify Prime Minister Ali (...)
Ethiopian planes dropped bombs and fired missiles on two locations in Somalia on Sunday, witnesses said, as fighting between Somali Islamists and their Ethiopian-allied rivals raged for a sixth day.
There was no immediate word from Ethiopia, the (...)
The United Nations' envoy to Somalia on Monday urged the country's fractured government to make a new commitment to faltering peace talks with an Islamic militia that has taken over much of southern Somalia.
Francois Lonseny Fall, the U.N. (...)
Somali police investigating a car bomb assassination attempt on the president have arrested three suspected members of a fundamentalist Muslim group and recovered explosives, an official said Thursday.
The arrests came after a tip, according to the (...)
Somalia's political crisis
deepened further on Friday as another minister quit the interim
government, intensifying pressure on Prime Minister Ali Mohamed
Gedi to resign, according to Reuters.
Reconstruction Minister Barre Shire Adan's departure (...)
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed
Gedi announced on Friday he had appointed seven new ministers,
after a wave of resignations threatened the fragile interim
government, Reuters reported.
"Some of my ministers had passed away, while I sacked (...)
FOUR MORE MINISTERS RESIGNED FROM SOMALIA'S WESTERN-BACKED GOVERNMENT ON TUESDAY, IN A MOVE THAT MAY ULTIMATELY CLEAR THE WAY FOR RIVAL ISLAMISTS TO TAKE MINISTERIAL POSTS, REUTERS REPORTED.
MINISTER OF MINERALS AND WATER MOHAMUD SALAD NUR AND (...)
GUNMEN SHOT DEAD A SOMALI MINISTER OUTSIDE A MOSQUE ON FRIDAY AT THE FRAGILE INTERIM GOVERNMENT'S PROVINCIAL BASE BAIDOA IN WHAT ONE OFFICIAL CALLED AN "ORGANISED ASSASSINATION".
WITNESSES SAID GUNMEN OPENED FIRE ON CONSTITUTION AND FEDERALISM (...)
Somalia's president urged the interim parliament on Saturday to act to stave off anarchy on the eve of its first session on home soil since one held in Kenya a year ago that was marred by fist-fights, Reuters reported.
President Abdullahi Yusuf (...)
