Tag: somalia

  • Somalia: Over 11 arrested for gang rape of a 19-year-old woman

    Somalia: Over 11 arrested for gang rape of a 19-year-old woman

    MOGADISHU (HAN) September 16. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. At least 11 suspects have been arrested for the gang rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, authorities said on Tuesday. Hamdi Mohamed Farah, a student, was raped by a group of men and pushed off…

  • Somalia: NISA Troops are protesting and blocking main roads

    Somalia: NISA Troops are protesting and blocking main roads

    MOGADISHU (HAN) September 16. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Some of the roads leading to the Somali presidential palace in Mogadishu have been taken over by Somali National Security and Intelligence Forces for hours today. The troops, armed with small arms and 90 vehicles, complained of lack pay for…

  • Djibouti: Why foreign countries are scrambling to set up bases in Africa

    Djibouti: Why foreign countries are scrambling to set up bases in Africa

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 16. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY:Theo Neethling. Recent media reports claim that a covert Kenyan paramilitary team is responsible for the unconstitutional killing of terror suspects in nighttime raids. The reports are based on interviews with US and Kenyan diplomatic and intelligence officials. The…

  • Kenya: Expand Counter-terrorism Drone War

    Kenya: Expand Counter-terrorism Drone War

    WASHINGTON (HAN) September 15. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. The U.S. military’s Africa Command is pressing for new authorities to carry out armed drone strikes targeting Qaeda-linked Shabab fighters in portions of eastern Kenya, potentially expanding the war zone across the border from their sanctuaries in Somalia, according to…

  • Former PM announces 2020 presidential bid

    Former PM announces 2020 presidential bid

    GAROWE (HAN) September 13. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre announced on Saturday that he will run for the presidency in the next year election.“It is clear that our country has made a progress over the last 2 decades. I have served this…

  • UPDF resumes deployments to AMISOM in Somalia

    UPDF resumes deployments to AMISOM in Somalia

    NAKASEKE —The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) has resumed its deployment to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) after four months’ suspension of the rotation of troops since the outbreak of COVID-19. The African Union (AU) and UPDF had suspended troop movements in and out of the mission area as force protection measure and…

  • AFRICOM releases identity of Al-Shabaab leader killed in August airstrike

    AFRICOM releases identity of Al-Shabaab leader killed in August airstrike

    The United States military released the identity of the senior Al-Shabaab leader who was killed in an airstrike in Somalia last month. A statement by the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said the leader was a terrorist known as Abdulqadir Commandos, who held numerous positions within the Islamist militant group, including recently serving as a senior…

  • Several killed in suicide bombing outside mosque in Somalia

    Several killed in suicide bombing outside mosque in Somalia

    MOGADISHU (HAN) September 11. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. At least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing outside a mosque in the Somalian port city of Kismayo, according to a regional official. “A suicide bomber wearing a heavy vest of explosives targeted the Muslim congregation at the Qaadim mosque in the centre of…

  • Somalia: Mass exam failure stirs up a storm

    Somalia: Mass exam failure stirs up a storm

    MOGADISHU (HAN) September 10. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. Somalia’s education policymakers are under pressure to explain how secondary schools in the capital Mogadishu reported massive failure in the national examination, while those in regions bordering Kenya had high grades. Results released on Sunday for Grade 12 exams for the 2019/2020 school calender showed that 33,727 students sat the…

  • Somalia:14 Al-Shabaab killed in heavy attack on town

    Somalia:14 Al-Shabaab killed in heavy attack on town

    MOGADISHU (HAN) September 8. 2020. Monitoring Regional Issues. Militants loyal to jihadist group Al-Shabaab waged a heavy attack on Bal’ad town, 30 km north of Mogadishu, early on Tuesday. In a Twitter message, Ministry of Information spokesperson Ismael Mukhtar Omar said there was an ambush but that the Somali National Army (SNA) recaptured the town.…

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