Somalia News » Bay News Somalia » Bay » Security: Fighting erupts in southwestern Somalia between government and militias
Renewed fighting has erupted between government forces and militias near Somalia's southwestern city of Baidoa.
News Somalia » Bay » Security: Somalia urges end to ransom payments as piracy picks up
Somalia’s Defence Minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi on Tuesday urged governments not to pay ransoms to pirates holding vessels off the country’s coast, warning that such payments would finance further ...
News Somalia » Bay » Security: Why is piracy picking up off Somalia’s coast again?
Piracy is surging back off Somalia’s coast, though not yet at the scale of its 2011 peak.
News Somalia » Bay » Security: Foreign troops in Somalia struggle to keep Al- Shabab at bay
Ahmed*, a Somali journalist, fled to Uganda in 2009 after he was threatened by al-Shabaab militants. He later moved to Kenya, and only returned to Somalia in 2012 after al-Shabaab had withdrawn most ...
News Somalia » Bay » Security: Somalia shapes its own destiny in global security forums
In international politics, the platforms a country sits on often matter as much as what it says. For decades, Somalia was largely the subject of global security discussions, rarely a decisive ...
News Somalia » Bay » Security: Somalia: Fighting breaks out on outskirts of Baidoa
Fighting broke out in Baidoa early Thursday between Somali government forces and militia loyal to former South West State predisent Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen.
News Somalia » Bay » Security: Somali Pirates Board Cargo Ship as Regional States Plan Security Effort
Reports are coming in of a new security incident off the coast of Somalia involving an unnamed cargo ship that was boarded. It is the latest in a series of ongoing incidents that have led the member ...
News Somalia » Bay » Security: Somalia: Clashes expose widening rift between Mogadishu and federal states
As long as the regions and the federal government cannot agree on an election timetable, ...