On the first Thursday in December a young Danish-Somali man in women’s clothes blew himself up in a suicide attack in Mogadishu. Four days earlier, Somali pirates had hijacked a 300,000-tonne supertanker 800 miles out to sea. Somalia’s abject failure does not end at its own borders: the chaos is spreading far across its frontiers and beyond its coastline.
On the first Thursday in December a young Danish-Somali man in women’s clothes blew himself up in a suicide attack in Mogadishu. Four days earlier, Somali pirates had hijacked a 300,000-tonne supertanker 800 miles out to sea. Somalia’s abject failure does not end at its own borders: the chaos is spreading far across its frontiers and beyond its coastline.
By Abdiaziz Hassan
NAIROBI, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Eritrea should be punished for threatening the Horn of Africa region by supporting Somali rebels, Somalia’s foreign affairs minister said on Sunday.
By Abdiaziz Hassan
NAIROBI, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Eritrea should be punished for threatening the Horn of Africa region by supporting Somali rebels, Somalia’s foreign affairs minister said on Sunday.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia is once again a raging battle zone, with jihadists pouring in from overseas, preparing for a final push to topple the transitional government.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia is once again a raging battle zone, with jihadists pouring in from overseas, preparing for a final push to topple the transitional government.
WORTHINGTON — When Aida Simon thinks of her native Eritrea in east Africa, she thinks of tears. Tears shed by a little girl who was always on the run, hiding in homes of family members … tears shed by a mother who watched as innocent victims were gunned down in the streets … tears shed for a homeland at war with neighboring Ethiopia.
WORTHINGTON — When Aida Simon thinks of her native Eritrea in east Africa, she thinks of tears. Tears shed by a little girl who was always on the run, hiding in homes of family members … tears shed by a mother who watched as innocent victims were gunned down in the streets … tears shed for a homeland at war with neighboring Ethiopia.
Eritrea has covertly shipped “huge quantities of arms,” possibly including suicide bomb belts and missiles that can shoot down planes, to insurgents in Somalia in an effort to torpedo Somalia’s fledgling government, a new United Nations report says.
Eritrea has covertly shipped “huge quantities of arms,” possibly including suicide bomb belts and missiles that can shoot down planes, to insurgents in Somalia in an effort to torpedo Somalia’s fledgling government, a new United Nations report says.