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One Step Off The Grid (blog)
April 18, 2018
Microgrid Knowledge. Beleaguered by famine, terrorism and war, Somalia has the added burden of some of the highest energy costs in the world. But now relief is coming in the form of solar microgrids for refugees and communities thanks to an East African company. SolarGen Technologies is on a missionÃâà...
Microgrid Knowledge
April 13, 2018
Beleaguered by famine, terrorism and war, Somalia has the added burden of some of the highest energy costs in the world. But now relief is coming in the form of solar microgrids for refugees and communities thanks to an East African company. SolarGen Technologies is on a mission to help stabilize theÃâà...
IRINnews.org
April 12, 2018
The number of children suffering severe acute malnutrition stands at 1.9 million, exceeding those of Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria combined. The Democratic Republic of Congo has been at war with itself for more than two decades. Over the last year, humanitarian conditions have deteriorated dramatically inÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
April 12, 2018
His case highlights an escalating tug-of-war over deportations to Somalia. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has stepped up removals to the slowly rebuilding nation, local attorneys and immigrant advocates have redoubled efforts to push back. Most of the 70 people scheduled to be deportedÃâà...
WJON News
April 12, 2018
CLOUD -- A Minnesotan, Somali refugee's one-woman play is coming to St. Cloud State University. Ifrah Mansour's "How to Have Fun in a Civil War" will be showing Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Ritsche Auditorium. The play is based on Mansour's childhood memories of the 1991 Somali Civil War and it's told fromÃâà...
St. Cloud Times
April 11, 2018
As a child, Ifrah Mansour fled the civil war that tore apart her home country of Somalia. The Minnesota woman reflects on her childhood experiences in her one-woman show "How to Have Fun in a Civil War." Mansour will perform the show at St. Cloud State University this week. In the show, she examinesÃâà...
Middle East Eye
April 11, 2018
SANAA - Abdullah Ibrahim travelled through his own battle-scarred country of Somalia to reach Djibouti, handed over all his money to a smuggler and spent three days crammed ... "I think most of the private institutions in Yemen, if not all, prefer Somali cleaners because they are honest, skilled and cheap.
SomalilandPress
April 11, 2018
At one time after the end of the Second World War when four of the five Somali-inhabited territories (with the exception of Djibouti which was a French colony), i.e., the British Somaliland Protectorate; Somalia, the Northern Frontier District (NFD) ruled together with Kenya as British colony and the SomaliÃâà...
UNHCR
April 11, 2018
Somali mother of two Amina* was strong and vigorous before she fell into the hands of Libyan traffickers. After more than a year of relentless beatings and electric shocks, she is now broken and unable to walk.
africanews
April 10, 2018
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has condemned the interception by the Somali security authorities of a private civil aircraft that it says was carrying members of the ... “What is going on in Somalia is a proxy war led by UAE mercenaries to undermine the sovereignty, legitimate government and institutions.
defenceWeb
April 6, 2018
Aftermath of a Somali bomb blast. The blast that killed over 350 people and the double car bombing in Mogadishu last October have frustrated Somalia's efforts to build stability. For almost 30 years, the country has been tackling a combination of civil war, famine, desertification, piracy, political fragmentationÃâà...
Washington Examiner
April 2, 2018
The counterterrorism mission has been going on for five years, during which U.S. troops have partnered with AMISOM (African Union Mission to Somalia) troops and Somali National Security Forces in operations to target terrorists, their training camps and their safe havens throughout Somalia and theÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 31, 2018
Jurors in the trial of three southwest Kansas militia members accused of plotting to bomb Somali Muslim immigrants heard this week secretly taped ... Stein describe their plans to kill Muslims as the start of the "Crusades 2.0," because he apparently likened them to a new Christian holy war, the AssociatedÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 28, 2018
The displacement of Somalia's refugees began in 1991, and so far, is globally one of the longest. A third civil war in South Sudan also accounts for a large number of displaced people from that country. As at 31 January this year, there were 428 928 South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia, of whom 53 925Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 28, 2018
The UAE began construction of the base last year, under an agreement with officials in Somaliland, a northern region of Somalia that self-declared independence from the latter in 1991 following a civil war. Earlier this month, the UAE said it would train Somaliland security forces, including the police and theÃâà...
Garowe Online
March 25, 2018
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud hMOGADISHUdenied entry to the United States under Trump's travel ... as the 9th President of Somalia 2012-2016 was scheduled to deliver a speech titled “Somalia the Crossroads: Opportunities and Challenges Post Civil War”Ãâà...
New York Times
March 25, 2018
In 2017, the Pentagon presented the White House with an operational plan that envisioned at least two more years of combat against Islamist militants there, with the United States military handing over the country's security to Somalia's forces. But officials have said that Somali forces are not yet ready.
The Guardian
March 24, 2018
The sheer numbers of diaspora returnees is unique to a country that has seen decades of war and lawlessness. In 2015, two million Somalis living outside the country were sending home so much money to support the households who stayed behind that the remittances accounted for 23% of GDP.
ReliefWeb
March 23, 2018
The training organized by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), and supported by the British Embassy in Somalia, sensitized the local security forces on the perils of engaging children in armed conflict and ways of preventing their recruitment and use in armed conflict. “This training is importantÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 15, 2018
MPs in Somalia have voted to declare a contract with the United Arab Emirates null and void - endangering plans to develop a port in the Horn of Africa. Dubai-based shipping giant DP World wants to enlarge the port of Berberra in the breakaway state of Somaliland. Somalia's parliament has voted to banÃâà...
Garowe Online
March 13, 2018
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The African Union top envoy in Somalia on Tuesday called on regional states in Somalia to intensify the war against terrorist ... the importance of regional forces in securing these Main Supply Routes (MSRs) side-by-side with AMISOM and with the Somali national security forces,"Ãâà...
africanews
March 8, 2018
BREAKING: Somalia asks Arab League intervention as relations w/ UAE sour following recent deal by DP World, Ethiopia and Somaliland over Berbera port. Somali Embassy in Cairo tells AL ministers concession is “null and void”, reiterates it violates unity and sovernight of Somalia. pic.twitter.com/Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 4, 2018
Nor are these “long wars” – which could include Somalia (at war since 1991) or Libya (since 2011) or Mali (since 2012) – restricted to the Islamic world. There is South Sudan, where a vicious four-year-old civil war is intensifying, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where more protests ended inÃâà...
Horseed Media
March 4, 2018
For almost 15 years, apart from extremist related armed conflict and spontaneous clashes between authorities in cities such as Galkayo, Somalia had not ... who has was a former fighter pilot in the Somali Air Force under the Siad Barre administration and rebel commander in Somalia's civil war, is known forÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 3, 2018
Al-Shabab militants in Somalia have shot and killed nine donkeys they said were transporting goods to a government-controlled area in the Bakool region. A security source told VOA Somali the militants seized the donkey carts early Wednesday near the village of Elboon, 15 kilometers west of Wajid.
Defense One
March 3, 2018
Somali government forces, African partner nations, and half a thousand U.S. troops are having trouble holding off the extremists of al Shabaab. ... So the U.S. ramped up its air war in Somalia last year, after President Donald Trump gave commanders more latitude to call in air strikes “within a geographically-defined area ofÃâà...
Voice of America
March 2, 2018
Al-Shabab militants in Somalia have shot and killed nine donkeys they said were transporting goods to a government-controlled area in the Bakool region. A security source told VOA Somali the militants seized the donkey carts early Wednesday near the village of Elboon, 15 kilometers west of Wajid.
Middle East Monitor
March 1, 2018
A new surveillance drone unveiled in Somalia's Baledogle Military Airfield, in Lower Shabelle region, will be used by Somali forces to monitor armed groups on the ground. It is unclear if the drone has hell-fire missile capability, which may lead onto a ramped up rate of targeted killings in the country.
Quartz
February 4, 2018
Somalia has the longest coastline in mainland Africa, stretching more than 3,000 kilometers (1880 miles) across the Horn. But for decades, those pristine beaches remained untouched and devoid of people and activities. And as the nation gained a semblance of peace in 2011, Somalis flocked there toÃâà...
Long War Journal
December 31, 1999
This is the ninth American strike in Somalia in 2018, Robyn M. Mack, an AFRICOM media relations told FDD's Long War Journal. Only six of the strikes ... Shabaab retains a potent insurgency despite the US targeting and engagement from the Somali government and African Union forces. Over the pastÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
Mogadishu - In 2005, Dr. Abdirahman Ali Awale – or Dr. 'Habeeb' as he is commonly known – was walking down a street in the Somali capital when he ... specializing in the treatment of mental illness and personality disorders – and one of Somalia's first such establishments since the start of the civil war inÃâà...
Daily Maverick
December 31, 1999
For almost 30 years, the country has been tackling a combination of civil war, famine, desertification, piracy, political fragmentation and terrorism. ... Climate change feeds armed conflict in Somalia in three ways: by exacerbating tensions between clans; boosting the ranks and role of terrorist groups,Ãâà...
africanews
December 31, 1999
We are saddened to hear that Former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been denied a visa to enter the United States to speak about the current situation in Somalia. As a man who worked with the U.S. to find peace, his Excellency deserved to be treated with the utmost respect. There wasÃâà...
War Is Boring
December 31, 1999
Somalia lacks a true national army, which is more akin to a coalition of local tribal forces. The Somali government's own pronouncements of Al Shabab's failings cannot be taken at face value, according to Tricia Bacon writing separately for War on the Rocks. “There are questions about the reported surge inÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
December 31, 1999
After years of civil war and upheaval, Somalia is struggling to its feet, and the U.S. is back in with boots on the ground and drones in the skies. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson and videographer Alessandro Pavone report on the ways the U.S. and other African partner nations are helping SomaliÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
But in January 2015, shortly before the outbreak of the Yemeni Civil War, he decided to go home. Not because he expected life to be better there. But he was concerned about the constant bombardments, cholera epidemics and other horrors which come with war. The UN has consistently described theÃâà...
