Death has two faces in Somalia these days. If famine doesn’t claim one’s life in the war-torn nation on the Horn of Africa, then Islamic militants might. Drought has brought Somalia to the precipice of its worst famine in 40 years. More than 7.1 million people,...
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Somali forces ended a 30-hour siege of a popular hotel in the country’s capital, after Islamist militants stormed the building over the weekend in what has been described as the biggest assault since the new president took office in May, Al Jazeera reported Sunday. Al-Shabab fighters...
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A former terrorist who once had a $5 million bounty on his head and trained with al Qaeda in Afghanistan has been appointed Somalia’s new religion minister in an attempt to win over supporters of the extremist group al-Shabab and bring reconciliation and stability to...
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Somalia’s newly elected president welcomed a decision by the United States to send special forces to the Horn of Africa country again, amid fears that the al-Shabab terrorist group has grown even more powerful recently, the Voice of America reported. Earlier this week, the Biden administration...
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Somalian lawmakers elected former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the country’s tenth president Monday, following a long-delayed vote as the Horn of Africa nation grapples with a major drought and an ongoing Islamist insurgency, CNN reported. Mohamud defeated outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed – also known...
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Somalia’s newly elected parliament convened for the first time Saturday, a few days after lawmakers were sworn in following a long-delayed voting process and a political struggle between the president and the prime minister, Africa News reported. Hundreds of lawmakers from both houses of parliament took...
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Somalia again delayed its parliamentary elections set for next month, a move that risks further exacerbating the country’s situation amid budget issues, political infighting and an Islamist insurgency, Agence France-Presse reported over the weekend. The lower house of parliament election was set for Feb. 25 and would have...
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Al-Shabab terrorists recently killed five people, including two children, in an attack in the Darussalam neighborhood in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, a newly developed district that has received much investment in recent years. The violence came on the heels of an al-Shabab suicide bomber blowing up...
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