By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 14 March 2007 Somalia's transitional government has reiterated its plans to hold a congress to unite striving Somali clans, asking the international community to support the process. Plans for the congress are being made as...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 13 March 2007 Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Tuesday moved to Somalia's volatile capital from the government's former base in Baidoa. Several hours later, witnesses reported seeing several mortar shells hitting Somalia's p...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 March 2007 An old Somali man, holds his gun in Bakhara market in Mogadishu to defend his family from looters (File photo) In the Somali capital, Mogadishu, elders of the locally-dominant Hawiye clan tell VOA that the interim...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 13 February 2007 Uganda's parliament on Tuesday approved sending 1,500 peacekeepers to Somalia. Faced with a worsening security situation in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the country's prime minister says a robust peacekeeping...
By Leslie Neuhaus Addis Ababa 30 January 2007 Somalia's president agreed Tuesday to a national reconciliation conference to try to end 16 years of fighting in the war-ravaged country. As Les Neuhaus in Addis Ababa reports for VOA, the announcement p...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 26 January 2007 A mortar attack and shootings are the latest violence to hit the Somali capital, which is struggling to regain stability after Ethiopian-backed government forces ousted Islamists who controlled the capital fo...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 17 January 2007 The U.S. ambassador to Kenya says the United States is pushing Somalia's transitional government to hold talks with all groups of Somali society to bring peace and stability to the volatile country. Meanwhile...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 10 January 2007 Tensions are running high in Somalia's capital Wednesday following a U.S. air strike on al-Qaida hideouts in the south and a statement by the interim president that ousted Islamist leaders should be punished...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 08 January 2007 Listen to Listen to VOA's exclusive interview with Jendayi Frazer Somalia's president Monday arrived in the capital Mogadishu to hold consultations with representatives from religious, civil society, busines...
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 06 January 2007 Before the Islamists lost power in much of southern Somalia earlier this month, the least known but most feared organization in the country was a radical Muslim group called the Shabbab, which means youth in A...