Somali Crime News

Somalia: Landmines blast kills 135

Somalia: At least 135 Somali soldiers have been killed and around 100 injured as four military vehicles in their convoy were hit by landmines.

A convoy of newly-trained Somali soldiers which had left Ethiopia became the target of an attack near Bardale town, 65 kilometers from Baidoa, Press TV report said.

UN condemns aid workers killing in Somalia

Nairobi(Kenya): The United Nations top envoy for Somalia on Wednesday criticized the senseless murder of innocent Somalis including humanitarian workers in the Horn of Africa nation.

Somalia: One more WFP staff shot dead

Kenya: Gunmen killed an agent for a WFP-contracted transport company amid growing insecurity in southern and central Somalia, the UN agency said on Tuesday.

Somlia: UPDF sells guns to its enemies

Inside story of how UPDF sold arms to Somali warlords

Sometime between December 5 and 8 of 2007, a United Nations Monitoring team came to Kampala after doing some investigations in Somalia.

Somali Islamist group claims responsibility of aid worker killings

Somalia: A man who spoke on behalf of an armed Islamist group in Somalia has claimed responsibility for a spate of recent assassinations, mainly targeting local and foreign aid workers.

Somali Islamist fighters seize southern town

Somalia: The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) fighters have seized Bardhere town in southern Somalia without facing much resistance, report says on Sunday.

Mogadishu mayor attacks Yemeni envoy!

Somalia: Mogadishu mayor Mohamed Omar Habeeb (Mohamed Dhere) has punched several times against Yemeni envoy on allegations of interference of his administrational work on Sunday night-sources at Yemeni Embassy told Mareeg online.

Somalia: Ethiopians target refugees, killed 10

Somalia: US-backed Ethiopian troops in Somalia have killed and tortured displaced Somalis living in the refugee camps of the capital, Mogadishu.

Piracy increases globally especially in Somali region

Malaysia: Pirate attacks worldwide surged 19 percent in the past three months compared to the January-March period, largely due to increased incidents in Somalia and Nigeria, an international maritime agency said Friday.

Somalia: Deadly fighting erupts in Shabelle region

Somalia: Heavy fighting has flared up between rival militiamen in the fertile lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia.

Somalia & Nigeria heavens for pirates

Somalia: The IMB said the increasing use of automatic weapons remains unacceptable.

Somalia: Ethiopian forces killed a mentaly diable man

Somalia: Ethiopian forces today killed a mentally ill man in Afgoi District in Lower Shabelle Region in southern Somalia later on Wednesday according to eyewitnesses.

Somali rebels attack major military camp

Mogadishu: Somali insurgents said Thursday they had attacked one of the transitional government's main military camps 25 kilometres east of Baidoa, the seat of the Horn of Africa nation's parliament.

Somali residents flee Hiran region

Somalia: Increased maneuver fighting inside Somalia's Hiran region, has led to another exodus of the population, adding to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) who have already fled and those fled to the neighboring middle Shabelle region.

Somali militants fights each-other to rescue Germans

Somalia: Troops from two feuding regions of remote northern Somalia were bracing for a possible showdown on Thursday as they compete to rescue four German tourists held hostage there by pirates.