Category: Somalia
Somalia has been in a state of civil war and anarchy since 1991, when the central government of Mohammed Siad Barre was overthrown. Various clan-based armed groups took control of parts of Somalia, while its northern part, Somaliland, declared independence.
In second half of the 2000s, the international recognized Transitional Federal Government managed to control most of the territory, with the help of Ethiopia. In 2012, a federal Constitution was adopted followed by the formation of the Federal Government of Somalia. The government’s mandate is slated to end in 2015 with the adoption of a new constitution and elections.
President Hassan Sheik Mohamud is the incumbent.
Read the posts related to Somalia below
Kenya to send home a Swedish terror suspect
A Swedish citizen, Magd Najjar, has been detained by Kenyan police on alleged links to.
Kenya on hunt for a German terror suspect
Kenyan police launched a major manhunt on Saturday for German citizen believed to use alias.
Report: UK citizens make up a quarter of Al-Shabaab’s foreign fighters
‘Britons are thought to make up about 25 per cent of the 200 or so.
Sudanese, Somalian on trial for ‘joining Al-Shabaab’ in UAE
A United Arab Emirates news outlet, The National, reported yesterday that three Sudanese and one.
Somalia: Elders confer on draft Constitution, for legislative elections
The conference of Somali elders in Mogadishu which opened last Saturday has continued all this.
Al-Qaeda commends Al-Shabaab, advises against negotiations
Al Qaeda leader Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Somalia’s Al Shabaab group militia to.
Ethiopia: Amb. Shinn doubts gov’t promotion of Al-Ahbash ideology
Former US Ambassador to Ethiopia, David Shinn, said, ‘I doubt that [the government] would push.
Ethiopia: Norway signed a new MoU and to ‘double support’
Ethiopia and Norway signed a new Memorandum of Understanding yesterday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis.
Al Shabaab and Al Qaeda in Kenya to unify the ‘Horn of Africa jihad’
The militant group Al Shabaab said it has allied with Al Qaeda in a drive.
Al-Shabaab split threatens to open new conflict between Somalia’s Islamists
Despite recent celebrations of its merger with al-Qaeda, Somalia’s Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen movement has been.