Page 1 A fall in street battles in the capital Mogadishu led to significantly fewer civilians being killed in Somalia this year, a human rights group said on Wednesday. The Mogadishu-based Elman Peace and Human Rights Organisation said 1 739 civilians were killed in fighting in Somalia this year, down from ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2010-01-07) A fall in street battles in the capital Mogadishu led to significantly fewer civilians being killed in Somalia this year, a human rights group said on Wednesday. The Mogadishu-based Elman Peace and Human Rights Organisation said 1 739 civilians were killed in fighting in Somalia this year, down from ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2009-12-30) Islamist gunmen have shot dead a prominent journalist in Mogadishu, the first reporter to be killed in Somalia this year, one of his colleagues said on Wednesday. Sheikh Nur Abkey, who worked for the state-run Radio Mogadishu, was killed in the capital"s Wardhigley neighbourhood while he was on his ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2010-05-05) Islamist gunmen have shot dead a prominent journalist in Mogadishu, the first reporter to be killed in Somalia this year, one of his colleagues said on Wednesday. Sheikh Nur Abkey, who worked for the state-run Radio Mogadishu, was killed in the capital"s Wardhigley neighbourhood while he was on his ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2010-05-05) Seventeen civilians were killed and 58 people wounded on Thursday in Mogadishu in an exchange of mortar and artillery fire between insurgents and African peacekeepers, medical sources said. "At least 17 civilians were killed and we have counted 58 wounded," Ali Muse, head of the Somali capital"s ambulance services, ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2009-10-22) By Mohamed Olad Hassan Mogadishu, Somalia - At least eight were killed in attacks in southern and central Somalia during which four people were wounded, witnesses said on Tuesday. In a one-hour gunbattle between 40 heavily armed insurgents and government soldiers in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, two men ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2007-07-31) Mogadishu, Somalia - Witnesses say fighting between government soldiers and Islamic insurgents has killed 40 people in central Somalia. The fighting started on Thursday in Bula Burte, about 210km north of the capital, Mogadishu, when government soldiers moved into the town controlled by the insurgent group al-Shabab. Local ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2009-08-21) Seventeen civilians were killed and 58 people wounded on Thursday in Mogadishu in an exchange of mortar and artillery fire between insurgents and African peacekeepers, medical sources said. "At least 17 civilians were killed and we have counted 58 wounded," Ali Muse, head of the Somali capital"s ambulance services, ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2009-10-22) MOGADISHU, Monday Related Stories Six killed as rival Islamists clash in Somalia Death toll hits 54 in Somali fighting Tension high in Somalia as 22 are killed Sheikh Ali Mohamud Raghe alias Sheikh Ali Dhere, the spokesman of al-Shabaab, the radical Islamist movement that fights the ... Read Story at Daily Nation (2010-04-05) Somalia"s Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden has been killed in a suicide car bomb attack north of the capital Mogadishu, witnesses and officials say.Somali diplomats were also reportedly among at least 10 people killed in the blast at a hotel in Beledweyne. Somalia"s president blamed al-Shabab - accused of links ... Read Story at BBC News (2009-06-18) News Results: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 |