Somalia

TALKING POINTS

Talking points

7 May 2013

HSBC releases first-quarter results

2:22AM

Twin terror attacks shatter fragile peace

15 Apr 2013

At least 19 people were killed in the Somali capital yesterday in suicide bombings and assaults by al-Shabaab militants linked to al-Qaeda, breaking a fragile return to peace in Mogadishu.

4:32AM

Briefs, January 28, 2013

28 Jan 2013

A UN Security Council delegation began a brief visit to Yemen in a clear boost to President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi aimed at helping to iron out problems hampering national reconciliation talks.

5:43AM

Briefs, January 19, 2013

19 Jan 2013

Berlusconi verdict to be delayed until after polls

4:30AM

Strength of Islamists in rescue bid misjudged, says Jean-Yves Le Drian

14 Jan 2013

French troops underestimated the strength of Islamist rebels when they launched a failed bid to free an intelligence officer held hostage in Somalia, the French defence minister said.

6:09AM

France tightens security after Mali, Somalia action

13 Jan 2013

France has ordered tightened security in public buildings and transport following action against radical Islamists both in Mali and Somalia, President Francois Hollande said on Saturday.

2:34PM

Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

4 comments

4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

5 comments

4:27AM

Briefs, December 11, 2012

Germany expels four Syrian embassy staff

4:54AM

Three killed in blast at Kenyan capital mosque

Three people were killed and eight wounded in a blast outside a mosque in the Kenyan capital, the Kenyan Red Cross and police said Friday.

3:58AM

Rioters attack ethnic Somalis in Kenyan capital

Police fired tear gas to disperse Kenyans who threw stones and broke into the homes and shops of ethnic Somalis in Nairobi’s Somali-dominated Eastleigh neighbourhood on Monday to protest against a...

8:47PM

MEDIA

2012 already deadliest year for Somali journalists

They buried Somali radio journalist Mohamed Mohamud Turyare on Monday, a week after he was assassinated by unknown gunmen near a mosque in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital.

4:00AM

Briefs, October 8, 2012

Venezuelans go to polls in tough test for Chavez

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SOMALIA

African troops enter Somali port of Kismayo

Kenyan troops from the African Union force in Somalia entered the southern port of Kismayo for the first time on Monday, witnesses said, three days after launching a beach assault that led...

8:29PM