Women, child among dead after boat sinks off Somalia
- (CNN) -- At least 55 people have drowned or are missing after a boat capsized off the Somali coast on Tuesday evening, the United Nations Refugee Agency said Thursday in a statement.
Capital
- Thousands of refugees and asylum-seekers from Somalia living in urban centres including the capital, Nairobi, will be required to move to the Dadaab refugee camp complex in north-eastern Kenya, while those from ...
- OSLO, Norway, December 21, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- On 20 December, Minister of International Development Heikki Eidsvoll Holmås met President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Today he will meet ...
- If you're new here, you may want to follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!Gunmen in central Somalia killed an underground Christian who had been receiving death threats for leaving Islam, area ...
- Experts at the missions think-tank the Joshua Project estimate Somalia is 99 percent Muslim. International Christian Concern's Jonathan Racho agrees with that statistic and says the overwhelming numbers make it difficult to ...
- BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - A ship and its crew of 22 sailors held by Somali pirates for almost three years have been freed after a two-week-long siege by maritime police, the government ...
Immediately
- The agency quoted five of the survivors as saying the boat was overcrowded and ran into trouble almost immediately after leaving the port of Bosaso, in the northern Somali region of Puntland.
- ADDIS ABABA-DJIBOUTI, 21 December 2012 (IRIN) - More people from the Horn of Africa region, especially Ethiopia and Somalia, are crossing international borders as irregular migrants - lacking official documentation or approval ...
- JOINT COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF A MEETING BETWEEN H.E. MWAI KIBAKI, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA AND H.E. HASSAN SHEIKH MOHAMUD, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA ON ...
- French commandoes on Saturday attacked a base of Islamist militants in Somalia in an attempt to rescue a French hostage, possibly to prevent reprisals against him in the wake of France’s military ...
Killed
- According to our information, the French hostage Denis Allex the DGSE was killed during an attempted rescue operation on the night of Friday to Saturday. One or more members of the commando ...
- Paris (dpa) - A Frenchman being held hostage in Somalia since 2009 was killed by his captors during a French rescue bid, the Defence Ministry in Paris said Saturday.
- Defense Ministry: Hostage killed, 2 French soldiers, 17 Somalian fighters also killed; French secret agent held hostage in Somalia for 3 years alive: Al Shebab
- MOGADISHU (Reuters) - French military helicopters attacked a base belonging to al Shabaab insurgents in southern Somalia to rescue a French secret agent held hostage since 2009, a rebel spokesman said
- Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) -- The chopping sound of helicopter blades and volleys of gunfire startled residents of a Somali town out of their sleep Friday night, when paratroopers raided an Islamist militant ...