Mogadishu: Bar-kulan: Kenya’s anti-terrorism police unit arrested a local journalist who is connected to the Kampala bombings of July 11 this year. The journalist, who works with a Mombasa based radio station known as radio Salam, was arrested by police while on vacation in Nairobi. He produces and hosts programs on comparative religious debates and [...]
Baidao: Bar-kulan: The Al-shabab militias in the capital of the Bay region have arrested ten local businessmen. The traders were arrested from different parts of the main market in Baidao. Among the traders who were arrested today in Baidao are hawkers and small time business people. They were arrested while operating their business this morning. [...]
Mogadishu: Bar-kulan-The Deputy Special Representative of the African Union in Somali, Wafula Wamunyinyi, says AMISOM troops serving in Somalia have secured key installations and were expanding their area of control so as to further reduce civilian casualties, which have occurred due to attacks by Al-shabaab militias. Most of those bases, which include roads that connect [...]
Mogadishu: Bar-kulan: Somali President Sheikh Sheriff Sheikh Ahmed yesterday received UN dignitaries led by the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Political Affairs, Lynn Pascoe. Lynn Pascoe was accompanied by UN Secretary General’s envoy for Somalia and the head of the UN Political Office for Somalia, Agustin Mahiga, and representatives from UNSOA, amongst other dignitaries. [...]
Burhakaba: Bar-kulan: One person died in a road accident that occurred at the Jameada division twenty kilometers away from Burhakabo district. Four other people who were among the passengers of the vehicle were also injured. They were taken to different hospitals in Mogadishu for treatment. Burhakaba district is part of the Bay region. The vehicle [...]
Mogadishu: Bar-kulan: The leader of Somalia’s Hizbul-islam militia group, Hassan Dahir Aweys, has declared the ongoing fighting in Somalia to be religious and compulsory for every Muslim. Aways labeled the war against the government and the African Union peacekeepers by insurgent groups as “Jihad”. Aways is one of the top leaders of the Hizbul-Islma militia [...]
Mogadishu: Bar-kulan: A press statement released by the Ministry of Information of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia has given more details regarding yesterday’s bomb that targeted a public service vehicle. The press release announced that the number of people who died in the explosion had reached fifteen civilians and those injured number more than [...]
Kismaayo: Bar-kulan- Drivers in Kismayo town are complaining of the fee Al-shabab militia group is illegally collecting from the road users. Al-Shabab militias are collecting money from both public service and private vehicles in the town. Some of the drivers who contacted Bar-kulan’s in the Juba region said that they could not afford to pay [...]
Bar-kulan: Fighters of the Al-shabab rebel group have attacked African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Mogadishu and killed four Ugandan soldiers. On Monday the troops, members of the AMISOM force, were killed when the Shabab militias fired mortars at the presidential palace, known as “Vila Somalia.” Nine other peacekeepers were injured during the attack. The troops [...]
Bar-kulan: Mogadishu; At least eight people are confirmed dead after fighting between the Somali government forces and Al-shabab militias resumed. On Sunday, Mogadishu was a tad calm after six consecutive days of fighting. More than fifteen other people have been injured by mortar attacks, which mostly hit civilians in the Howlwadag, Wardigley, Bondere and Howdan [...]