Tokiyo(insidesomalia.org)-Two aid workers from Japan and the Netherlands, kidnapped by Somali gunmen on the Ethiopian border last year, have been released, Japan's foreign ministry and aid organisation Medecins du Monde said on Thursday.   A female Japanese doctor, Keiko Akahane, and a male aid worker from the Netherlands, Willem Sools, were abducted in September 2008 from Ethi...

Baidoa, (insidesomalia.org)- MP Mohamed Mohamud Guled (Ga’madhere) the man that Somali president AbdulahiYusuf nominated to be a prime minister announced his resignation in Baidoa, the seat of the transitional parliament, radio Shabelle reported on Wednesday. Somali president Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed named Mohamed Mohamud Guled as a prime minister after he said that he had sacked...

London, (insidesomalia.org) - Aid organisations found it harder to operate in 2008 and help some of the world's most vulnerable people than in previous years because of increased security risks and more hazardous environments, a leading medical NGO said on Sunday.   In its annual list of "top 10" humanitarian crises, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said many of the countries on...

Mogadishu, (insidesomalia.org) - Life is hard for the Somali melodious bands and singers after the collapse of the late military regime of General Mohamed Siad Barre ousted by a coalition of factional leaders .who fought each other for power during the start of the civil unrest in Somalia in 1991. Somali musical bands were unfastened and their careers discarded, and most of illustrious singer and musicians become hopeless. The National th...

Mogadishu, (insidesomalia.org) - A Saudi supertanker seized by Somali pirates in the world's biggest ship hijacking is moving away from the coast in what may be the early stages of its release, a regional maritime group said on Friday.   "It is moving south-east. She might have been released. It is too early to confirm. But often when a deal has been released, the hijackers acc...

BOSSASO, (insidesomalia.org)- A small company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will manage the Port of Bossaso in northern Somalia under a new deal, confidential sources tell Garowe Online.   In August, Puntland President Adde Muse announced that unnamed foreign companies will manage the region's airports and the port of Bossaso, the regional government's economic backbo...

KUALA LUMPUR, (insidesomalia.org)- A maritime official says pirates have hijacked a South Korean bulk carrier with 21-member crew off Somalia's coast.   Noel Choong of the piracy watchdog International Maritime Bureau says the ship was seized in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday.   Choong says it was the second attack on a vessel near Somalia on Wednesday....

Mogadishu, (insidesomalia.org) - Somali students have set up new organization for the students of Somalia to push for the education of the war racked horn of Africa nation. Hundreds of students and lecturers participated a huge ceremony they held in Mogadishu to inaugurate the organization called (Somalia Students Union) to illustrate the mechanism of the organization.  One of ...

Mogadishu,( insidesomalia.org) Continuous fighting and insecurity have triggered the closure of 34 learning institutions including seven universities in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a press release of the Somali Schools Association for Formal Education (SAFE) said Monday.   The secretary of public affairs of the Schools Association for Formal Education “SAFE”, Mohamed Said Far...

MOGADISHU,(insidesomalia.org)- Following an insecurity acts and permanent attacks near schools in Mogadishu the administrations of those schools decided to close down for “life fear”   The incident was triggered by an earlier attack by insurgents on AMISOM and police posts which are located these schools close to the airport.   "These attacks are badly...

Energy system in Somalia has collapsed in the early 1991, when the former government of Siyad Barre was toppled the country, especially in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia's troubled nation. Somali entrepreneurs established privately owned power supply companies, which provide insufficient energy to the daily consumers with the highest rates for more than a decade. The power providers try at least to satisfy the public demand, given that the ...

Nairobi,(insidesomalia.org)- The UN Refugee Agency has finally run out of space to accommodate newly arrived Somali refugees fleeing into Kenya, the Nation has learnt. Reports indicate that rows of emergency tents had by early this week, reached the perimeter of the Ifo Camp in Dadaab meaning that there was no more room to accommodate additional tents to house the refugees fleeing the wors...

Marko, (insidesomalia.org) - Reports from Janale locale of lower Shabelle region say that the farming season of the district has been delayed by streaming inundations that spoiled massive farmlands in the region. Hundreds of cultivators also fled from the ward after full-size flooding water fiercely broke into their farmlands. “My arable farm deducted by flowing rainy wat...

Hiran, (insidesomalia.org) - Number of crocodiles have wounded people in some locations in Balaedweyn town the headquarters of Hiran region in central Somalia. The inhabitants of Bilis Did in the suburbs of Baladweyn town in Hiran region are complaining of flocks of which have come out of the water of River Shabelle which passes in the mid of Bilis Did location. The residents ...

Bossaso, (insidesomlia.org)- Two journalists, from Britain and Spain, were released Sunday after almost six weeks' captivity in Somalia's Puntland state, a senior police official said.   "We're waiting for them at the hotel, but they are free and they are on their way to reach us," said the police official on condition of anonymity.   Staff at the Inte...

Nairobi, Kenya (insidesomalia.org)- A reporter for Somalia's Shabelle Radio was shot and killed Thursday during a gun battle south of Mogadishu, the network reported.   Hassan Mayow Hassan was caught in crossfire between Islamist insurgents and another armed group in Asgoye, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) south of the Somali capital, the network said. He had been a corresponden...

Nairobi,Kenya (insidesomalia.org)- The United Nations has introduced a new ready-to-use food supplement which could significantly boost efforts to reduce child malnutrition in Somalia, said a statement received by AFP Thursday.   The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said the new type of supplement -- called Plumpy'Doz -- will be distributed to more than 100,000 of the most vulnerabl...

Mogadishu, Somalia: The war-ravaged Somali capital received its first public ambulance system in 18 years Tuesday, raising hopes residents will no longer have to resort to wheelbarrows to transport their wounded. British charity Life Line Africa also cooperated with local telecom provider Nationlink to set up 777 as a 24-hour emergency hot line. "We have started ...

Mogadishu,(insidesomalia.org)- For Somalia, it was just another long weekend of mayhem. Shortly after midnight on Friday, Nov. 7, pirates seized a Danish cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden; on Saturday night an aid worker was shot and killed as he walked home from evening prayers in a village 270 miles (435 km) from Mogadishu; on Sund...

MOGADISHU,(insidesomalia.org)-  A Somali man is feared drowned after falling into a fast-flowing monsoon drain in Jalan Persiaran, Taman Melati here during a heavy downpour today.   Wangsa Maju fire station officer-in-charge Azman Hassan said in the 7pm incident, Muhamed Hassan Abukar, 20, together with four friends were trying to cross the swollen drain via a makeshift plank b...

LONDON, (insidesomalia.org) - International naval forces operating off the coast of Somalia must be prepared to take on pirate 'mother ships' if they are to stem rampant piracy, a senior maritime official said on Thursday. "We want pre-emptive action against the mother ships before the pirates carry out a hijacking," said Captain Pottengal Mukundan, director of the London-based Internationa...

Birzebbuga,(insidesomalia.org)-  A group of 28 Somali illegal immigrants were brought into Birzebbuga on Sunday night, after they were spotted some 17 miles off Delimara by a local sailing yacht. The Andrew Valletta spotted the migrants in a black fiberglass boat at around 1700CEST heading for Marsaxlokk. Malta has been targeted as a destination by Somalis since the situation...

Yemen,(insidesomalia.rg)-The Somali consul in the port city of Aden, southern Yemen, said hundreds of African migrants crossed the Gulf of Aden to Yemen in June in search of a better life in Saudi Arabia despite a high risk of death at sea or at the hands of ruthless smugglers.   "They made the perilous sea journey despite rough seas. The number of arrivals registered by the U...

Khartoum ,(insidesomalia.org)- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday said the mobilization of naval fleets in the Somali coast would complicate the situation in Somalia and the region as a whole.  "The mobilization of fleets will not solve the problem.... It is feared that the presence of an international military will be a pretext of threat to the stability of the region," he said ...

Mogadishu, (insidesomalia.org)-The African Union Military Mission on Somalia (AMISOM) says it is ready to handle the security situation following the imminent withdrawal of Ethiopian troops.  The assurance comes after the Islamic group Al-Shabab Sunday attacked the offices of some non-governmental organizations in the capital, Mogadishu. Some political analysts believe the withdrawal of Eth...

Kampala ,( insidesomalia.org)- The Shadow minister for Defense, Hussein Kyanjo has said Uganda needs to withdraw its troops from Somalia because of the confusion over the Somali transitional government.   Kyanjo says the African Union Peace Keeping forces were invited by the interim government headed by Yusuf Abdhulai which government seems to have lost control of the war torn ...

Mogadishu,(insidesomalia.org)- At least one government soldier has been killed and another one has been injured when Somali Islamist insurgents  and government soldiers have clashed  in Bulo-hubey neighborhood in Wadadjir district in Mogadishu on Thursday, witnesses told Shabelle radio.   Residents say the fighting started after the Islamist insurgents attacked a checkpoint man...

GAROWE, (insidesomalia.org)-  The semi-autonomous of Puntland's parliament elected Abdurahman Mohamed Farole as the new president puntland in northeast of Somalia.   Farole received 49 votes in the 66-member house after hard contest and replaces Mohamud Musa Hirsi (Adde), who was ousted in the first round of voting.   He becomes the third president of...

MOGADISHU,(insidesomalia.org)- Seven Somali civilians and two Ethiopian soldiers were killed Friday in Mogadishu in a roadside bomb attack and ensuing retaliatory fire, police and witnesses told AFP.   "A bomb exploded near a group of Ethiopian soldiers at the K4 crossroads. There were many civilian victims," Somali police colonel, Ali Hasan, told AFP, referring to a southern d...

Nairobi, Kenya (insidesomalia.org)- The U.N. envoy to Somalia says the United Nations must establish a proper base inside the country in order to help it overcome almost 20 years of conflict, hunger and disease.   Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah says the U.N. plans to move its Somalia operation from neighboring Kenya, where it is now based. But he didn't say when.   ...

TAIPEI, (insidesomalia.org)-  A senior official says Taiwan is considering sending a naval force to protect its fishing vessels against Somali pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa.   Mainland Affairs Council Vice Chairman Chao Chien-min said Thursday that the Taiwanese government is currently studying the feasibility of deploying its navy to the area.   ...

China,(insidesomalia.org)-Ugandan peace keeping troops in Somalia are beginning 2009 on a good note following the donation of supplies by the government of China. The Chinese Ambassador to Uganda, Sun Heping yesterday handed over the 5 millions Chinese Yen donation to the minister of Defense, Dr. Crispus Kiyonga. Ambassador Heping said the donation is part of efforts by China t...