By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 04 January 2007 In the post-Islamist Somali capital Mogadishu, a deadline for the city's militias and residents to voluntarily hand in their weapons has been largely ignored. As VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from Mogad...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 02 January 2007 Somalia's interim president is in Kenya for talks with President Mwai Kibaki and other top security officials. Meanwhile, Kenyan authorities have arrested and detained at least eight people at a border cross...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 28 December 2006 Ali Mohamed Gedi (7 Dec 2006) Somalia's prime minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi, says the government's Ethiopian-backed troops have reached entry points into the capital, Mogadishu, after Islamists abandoned the city....
By Michael Bowman Washington 25 December 2006 The Bush administration is urging a halt to conflict in Somalia that has Islamic Court fighters wait at the airport of Mogadishu, Somalia, 25 Dec 2006 intensified since neighboring Ethiopia launched air...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 22 December 2006 In Somalia, Islamist fighters and government troops continue to battle each other near the government stronghold of Baidoa, with each side claiming to have killed hundreds of troops of the other side's. Cat...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 12 December 2006 The Islamic Courts Union is threatening to attack what it says are 35,000 Ethiopian troops stationed in Somalia, unless the troops leave the country within a week. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairob...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 28 November 2006 A top Somali Islamist leader warned the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that authorizing African peacekeepers to intervene in the Somali conflict would start an all-out war in the Horn of Africa. VOA Correspon...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 25 October 2006 Three journalists arrested by the transitional Somali government are being questioned for their work in an area under the control of the Islamic Courts Union. The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders is cal...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 October 2006 The Somali government says it has control over a town that experienced a battle with the Islamic Courts Sunday. The coordinator of Somali affairs in Kenya, Mohamed Ali Nur Americo, tells VOA that, as of Mond...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 25 September 2006 Ali Mohamed Gedi The prime minister of Somalia's beleaguered interim government is urging the UnitedNations Security Council to act swiftly in lifting a 14-year-old arms embargo on Somalia, so that armed peace...