Topic: Kismayo
The Kenyan army, which entered Somalia in mid-October to fight Somalia's Shebab Islamist rebels, is not necessarily headed for the key port of Kismayo, Kenyan Defence Minister Yusuf Haji said Friday."I don't know where this objective came from. We ...
Residents of Somali towns targeted by Kenyan forces fighting Shebab rebels said on Friday they were caught between two fears: getting hit in an air raid or being accused of spying for Nairobi.In Baidoa, one of the 10 towns singled out ...
The sound of aircraft and heavy explosions was heard around Somalia's Islamist controlled Kismayo region in the south of the conflict-torn country, residents said on Friday.The blasts late Thursday in a jungle near the port town of Kismayo followed several ...
A Mogadishu court jailed 14 Indian sailors for a year for illegally exporting charcoal, court sources said Sunday.The sailors were arrested last week by Somali coast guards. Nine of the 14 were present in court on Saturday."The court sentenced 14 ...
<div><p>A grenade attack at a mosque in Somalia's Islamist-controlled port town Kismayo killed at least one person and wounded 13 others, witnesses said Monday, two days after blasts killed 32 in Mogadishu.</p><p>Attackers threw a grenade into ...
<div><p>Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a senior official of the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab group in the southern Somali port town of Kismayo that it controls, officials said Saturday.</p><p>Sheik Daud Ali Hasan, who was in charge of the Shebab ...
Newly-trained Somali government forces will soon take on Islamist insurgents entrenched in the capital Mogadishu and across the south of the war-torn country, the Somali premier said on Friday.Speaking a day after an insurgent attack against the president in Mogadishu sparked ...
Fierce battles erupted Wednesday between rival Islamist rebel groups in the southern Somali town of Kismayo, shattering a tentative peace agreement, witnesses said.The Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab militia and the more political Hezb al-Islam had announced a truce after clashing repeatedly over control ...
No luxury cruise but a ticket to jihad was the prize for the winners of a team quiz organised by Somalia's insurgent Shebab group during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. "The reason the young men were rewarded with weapons is ...
Somali Islamists carry out amputations on 3 men accused of robberySix masked men used machetes to carry out amputations on three men accused of robbery by a Somali Islamist court, a witness said Saturday.Abdulahi Hassan Afrah said the two of the ...
