MOGADISHU — A passenger plane on a domestic flight crash-landed at Mogadishu’s international airport on Tuesday. All 30 passengers and four crew members survived, the Somali Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement. The E-120 aircraft, operated by local airline company Halla Airlines, was flying from Garowe in Somalia’s Puntland …
Read More »Heavy Shelling continues for the second day in the city of Las Anod
LAS ANOD — News coming from the Sool region indicates that today another intense conflict erupted within the outskirts of Las Anod town, the regional capital, involving Somaliland and SSC forces. The renewed fighting, which broke out yesterday with no sign of resolution, is reported to have spread to surrounding …
Read More »Somalia, Int’l partners appeal for calm after ten killed in clashes
MOGADISHU — Somalia and international partners on Wednesday appealed for calm and restraint after at least 10 people were killed in fighting between the Puntland State government and opposition one day ago. In separate statements, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre and international partners including the European Union, African Union and …
Read More »Somali speaker calls for an immediate end to Puntland violence
MOGADISHU — The Speaker of the Somali parliament Sheikh Aden Madobe has called for an immediate end to the violence in Garowe, the capital of Puntland. Madobe said in a statement that war is not the solution to the political crisis, and called on the people of Puntland to work …
Read More »10 killed as fighting between disciplined forces intensifies in Somalia
MOGADISHU — A total of 10 people including soldiers were killed and several others injured on Tuesday as a fierce gun battle between Somali National Army (SNA) and regional forces broke out in the port town of Barawe in southern Somalia, local authorities said. Mohamed Ibrahim Barre, governor of Lower …
Read More »UN health agency employee killed in terrorist attack on hotel in Somalia
MOGADISHU — The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday that one of its employees was among those killed in an attack last week on a popular beachside hotel in Somalia’s capital by members of the al-Shabaab terrorist group. The siege on June 9 left six people dead …
Read More »UNICEF shocked old bomb kills 20 children in Somalia
MOGADISHU — “UNICEF is deeply shocked and horrified by reports that at least 22 children were among 27 people killed in an explosion in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia following the detonation of an unexploded remnant of war in an area where the children were playing. “We extend our …
Read More »9 killed in militant attack of Beachfront hotel in Somalia
MOGADISHU — The Somalia government says an attack launched Friday by al-Shabab militants on a Mogadishu hotel has ended. State media report that security forces successfully neutralized the militants who stormed the Pearl Beach hotel on Friday evening and rescued a large number of civilians. Somalia police said nine people …
Read More »Blast kills 25 children in southern Somalia
MOGADISHU — At least 25 children were killed and several others injured after unexploded ordnance went off at a playing field near Qoryoley town in southern Somalia on Friday, local authorities confirmed. The tragedy was caused by explosive remnants of war like bombs and landmines that children were playing with …
Read More »Somalia: the harsh reality of the devastating impact of forced evictions
Droughts and armed conflicts, combined with the lack of access to essential services in different parts of Somalia, have forced thousands of people to migrate from rural areas to cities. Mogadishu, Baidoa, Kismayo and Beletweyne are among the final destinations of the displaced populations. This has created a huge number …
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