- Somali-land police took an operation to get out the residents former Ortopedia hospital of Hargeisa by force on Sunday.the residents begun roit violence against the police of Hargeisa according to the internal minister and witnesses. the secretary General of (UCID) Part of Somali-land Mohamed Eed Ibraahim was shot died and another one wounded after the police used live bullets to the civilians made riot violence near in the event place.the internal minister of Somali-land Mohamed Nur Arale made emergency press conference that event and told the local media his ministry and security department will began investigation that sad an expecting death of the secretary of UCID part. "w…

- The head of the United Nations refugee agency has urged Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki to open a new camp for people fleeing drought and war in Somalia .However, a meeting due on Monday between UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres and Mr Kibaki has been cancelled. According to BBC Somali The Kenyan Government has so far refused to open a new camp. that the united nation already built, which has space for 40,000 people. The government fears it would encourage refugees to stay in the country for long time. The new facility is close to the Dadaab camp, which has been overwhelmed by the recent influx. According to the Shabelle.net, the Governor of Banadir Mohamoud Ahmed Nur(Tarzan) said tha…

- Somali pirates have freed a Chinese-owned cargo vessel they had held for nearly seven months off the lawless Horn of Africa country, pirates and a regional maritime expert said on Wednesday. Owned and managed by Ningbo Hongyuan Ship Management Ltd, the Panama-flagged cargo carrier Yuan Xiang was seized on Nov. 12 and its 29-strong Chinese crew taken hostage. "We have freed the Chinese ship. We have received ... the agreed ransom this morning and the ship has already sailed away," a pirate who identified himself as Hussein told Reuters by telephone from the pirate haven of El-Dhanane. Andrew Mwangura, a Kenya-based former maritime official and now maritime editor of the S…

- Three suspected members of Al-Qae da linked Somali militant Al Shabaab group who were arrested in Liboi on Friday night have been moved to Nairobi for interrogation by detectives from the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit.According to the Capital News, They were arrested as they tried crossing back into Somalia. North Eastern Provincial Commissioner Joseph ole Serian told Capital News the suspects were briefly detained in Garissa before they were handed over to the ATPU detectives. "Security agencies are trying to establish their mission in Kenya; how long they had stayed here and what they were up to,"he said. The PC revealed that those arrested were a Sudanese, Ugandan and Somal…

- The commander African Union forces in Somalia (AMISOM) said Friday he sees no way of managing Somalia’s political transition other than by extending the mandate of the transitional government “I don’t see any other alternative than that,” Ugandan Gen. Nathan Mugisha said, referring to a one year extension of the Government's mandate. “There is no other option, unfortunately. We cannot interrupt the efforts toward pacification. Stabilization has started.. we need partners on the other side; AMISOM can not do this job alone without the TFG. He said in an interview at the force’s base. The mandates of the transitional government and Parliament we…

- Somali pirates have been killed four American citizens. And they hijacked off the coast of Oman on Friday, US defense officials say. The Yacht was owned and sailed by Scott and Jean Adam of California. The US Military said it is forces trailing the vessel had responded to gunfire heard aboard found all the hostages shot, when they arrived.US central Command said that negotiation were under way between The US Navy and pirates, when the US forces heard gunfire coming the Quest about 0600GMT. The reports say the four American captives shot. At least one Ms Macay was alive when seals boarded. The US Navy Seals Special Forces attempted unsuccessful to save the injured hostages the military…

- The Ashabaab new administration of the out-skirts of Mogadishu imposed ban on possessing,selling and using khat. According to Shabelle.net the same sellors of khat began complaining about the breaking their kiosks,burned and stopping selling khat in Celasha Biyaha areas.Alshabab already had banned the area controlled smoking tobocco,watching films or vedios and life musics. . Ahmed Hassan Khayre AfricaNews Reporter.

- The Hargeisa court handed down guilty six Russian crew members an airplane arrested in hargeisa airport 10 December 2010.Which caried equipments of military, as Somaliland said. The court sentenced the six persons one year to life custody and to pay three million Somaliland shillings. And also the agency of the airoplane sentenced to pay 23 million shillings.According to Hiirraan.com The court told the participators hearing the case of the six persons.their case was verified that they guilty crime against the low of Somaliland.and they were accused of breaking the embargo against weapons on Somalia. The reports says the airoplane was transporting to puntiland. before landed on airpo…

- Dutch authorities on Sunday cleared five of 12 Somali men who were detained Christmas Eve on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack in the Netherlands. Prosecutors said they had no evidence of criminal involvement against the five men, but the investigation of the other seven was continuing. Prosecutors must decide by Tuesday whether to bring the remaining suspects before a judge or let them go. According to the Wall Street Journal. The men were picked up in Rotterdam after a tip from intelligence services that an attack may... Ahmed Hassan Khayre, africaNews reporter

Suspected Somali pirates have hijacked a merchant ship with 27 crew off the sultanate of Oman, the head of a regional maritime group and the European Union Naval Force of Somalia said on Saturday. - Andrew Mwangura of the Kenyan-based East African Seafarers Assistance Programme said the pirates had seized the Thai-flagged vessel early on Saturday while sailing from the United Arab Emirates. "Reports reaching Mombasa ... indicate that early this morning pirates sized MV Thor Nexus some 350 nautical miles east of Salalah, Oman," Mwangura said in a statement. Mwangura added that it was likely the pirates were Somalis. "They are the ones known to do this," he told Reute…

An insurgent group in Somalia Al-shabab has demanded support from their umbrella body Al-Qaeda to beef up their strength to fight the Somali weak government backed by Africa Union troops. - Sheikh Ali Dhere a spokesman for Al-shabab has told reporters that they are requesting the militants in Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Shishan to support their fighting of Jihad (the Holy war). This came after United Nation Security Council demanded to reinforce and send more additional troops to Somalia. Reports say that Al-shabab militants are increasing their efforts of overthrowing the Government of Somalia. The horn of African state has been without central Government since 1991 when the forme…