News on Somalia

Census Somalis

2010-12-14T16:01:35Z

Hashi Shafi, executive director of the Somali Action Alliance talks about the challenges of taking an accurate census in the Somali community at his office in Minneapolis, Minn., Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. Nearly one in three people with Somali ancestry in the United States live in Minnesota, ...

WikiLeaks Piracy

2010-12-10T06:31:23Z

FILE - This is a Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, file photo of the the arms-laden Ukrainian ship MV Faina as it arrives in the Kenyan port of Mombasa, after an airdropped ransom of millions was paid. The U.S. considered taking military action against the Ukrainian ship MV Fainan that was carrying tanks and an...

Somalia Refugee Rapes

2010-12-07T06:32:29Z

In this Thursday Dec. 2, 2010 photo, The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres,right, listening to the problems of the internally displaced people in a camp outside Galkayo, Somalia. Aid workers in Somalia ...

Portland Car Bomb Plot

2010-12-06T13:02:11Z

This recent, undated photo taken from a cell phone video obtained and aired by Portland, Ore., televsion station KPTV, shows 19-year-old Somali-born Mohamed Osman Mohamud. In the video, which the station says was recorded May 22, 2010 in an

Somalia Fighting

2010-12-06T07:02:03Z

Somali government soldiers take positions during clashes with Islamist insurgents in southern Mogadishu's Wardhigley neighborhood , Monday Dec. 6, 2010. Fighting erupted after Somali government forces advanced into the Islamist controlled barracks in the area. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)