27 August 2008, 10:46 am
Kidnappers freed the head of the U.N. refugee agency's office in Somalia on Wednesday but rising insecurity forced Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to close a clinic in Mogadishu that provided essential health care to hundreds of women and children.... read more
27 August 2008, 9:28 am
The hunt continued Wednesday for a Canadian journalist kidnapped in Somalia on Saturday along with an Australian photographer, their Somali fixer and a driver.... read more
27 August 2008, 8:31 am
Source: IRIN Somalia is moving more rapidly than expected into a serious humanitarian crisis, with an estimated 3.2 million people both in urban and rural areas facing extreme poverty, according to humanitarian officials.... read more
27 August 2008, 8:00 am
Somalia's transitional government troops have killed a young shoes cleaner boy in Zobe area south of Mogadishu as they were conducting search operations in the similar area on Wednesday, eyewitnesses said.... read more
27 August 2008, 7:19 am
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP)--Two civilans were killed when Islamist rebels attacked an Ethiopian military base in the south of the Somali capital Mogadishu Wednesday, witnesses said.... read more
27 August 2008, 6:35 am
Two civilians were killed when Islamist rebels attacked an Ethiopian military base in the south of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, witnesses said.... read more