Mogadishu, March 15, 2012. Today, the Somali government has concluded a National Steering Committee Consultative workshop regarding the reconciliation and stabilization plan for newly liberated areas. The two-day workshop was hosted by H.E. Abdiwahab Ugaas Hussein, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce and Industry; H.E. Abdullahi Godah Barre, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation; [...]

Somali online Media and Journalists Association (SOMJA) condemns the murder of journalist Ali Ahmed Abdi, who was murdered by armed men in front of his house in Galkayo Mudug Region Somalia on Sunday night 4, March 2012. Ali Ahmed Abdi known as Ali Ahmedey was around 20s, he was member of Galkayo journalists and he [...]

News in English (M Media) Islamist al Shabaab rebels attacked soldiers from Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region, leaving at least nine people dead on Saturday, officials said, in the latest sign of a resurgence by the militants in the area. Al Shabaab promised last week to step up action in the northern Puntland area – a [...]

News in English (M Media) Somali and African Union soldiers captured a key area on the outskirts of Mogadishu from the insurgency on Friday, residents said. AU soldiers used heavy weaponry, including anti-aircraft guns and tanks, to drive the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militia out of the village of Maslah during a battle that lasted several hours, [...]

News in English (M Media) Somali militants say that a Moroccan was killed in a strike that a U.S. official said was carried out by an American drone. The statement Saturday on an al-Shabab website named the dead Moroccan as Sheik Abu Ibrahim. The statement said two others — including a second foreigner — were [...]

NAIROBI(MMEDIA);aleading Somalia journalist was shot outside him home in Mogadishu on Saturday and died on the way to the hospital, according to other journalists. Hassan Osman Abdi, 29, was the director of Shabelle Media Network, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) and Reporters Without Borders. He had also previously done some freelance [...]

Somalia (MMedia) A leading Somalia journalist was shot outside him home in Mogadishu on Saturday and died on the way to the hospital, according to other journalists. Hassan Osman Abdi, 29, was the director of Shabelle Media Network, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) and Reporters Without Borders. He had also previously [...]

Somalia(MMedia) U.S. helicopters swooped into Somalia Wednesday and rescued an American and a Dane after a shootout with pirates holding them hostage, in a rare raid into the Horn of Africa nation to free foreign captives. American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted were kidnapped from the town of Galkayo in the semi-autonomous Galmudug [...]

Somalia(MMedia) The U.N. special envoy to Somalia moved to Mogadishu on Tuesday for the first time in 17 years, signaling international support for a government fight against Islamist rebels and preparations for elections this year. High-level officials from the United Nations have been based in Kenya’s capital Nairobi since 1995 because of security concerns, although [...]

Puntland, one of the poorest regions in Africa, has been a semi-autonomous region in Somalia since 1998 when it was formed in response to the collapse of the government and the ongoing civil war in the south. It has been calm recently compared to the lawless south, but illegal fishing, dumping and piracy along its coast [...]