Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Somalia ( ; ; ), officially the Somali Republic (, ') and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa.
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Somalia's prime minister said Thursday that his country has more to offer than pirates, militants and images of the hungry, and that Somalis can even teach the world a thing or two about resilience.
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali delivered his hopeful vision at a conference in Istanbul, where hundreds of Somali and international delegates are discussing a transition process for the fragile country. A timetable backed by the United Nations calls for a new constitution and parliament, to be followed by a vote for president and prime minister by Aug. 20, as the nation struggles to emerge from decades of war and famine.Ali, who survived a suicide bombing in Mogadishu in April, said he hopes Somalia can eventually exploit its long coastline and benefit from the business links of its far-flung diaspora to build a stable economy that links Asia and Africa. For now, though, the country is trying to consolidate gains in the fight against al-Shabab, an Islamic militant group that has links to al-Qaida."The...The farmers in Afgoye, a town on the outskirts of Mogadishu long controlled by Islamist militants, didn't even wait to clear away the bullet casings from last week's...
Somali officials say two blasts killed at least five people and injured six others in the Somali capital.Police officer Mohamed Aden said Saturday that the first bom...
A radio station producer says that gunmen in Somalia have killed a Somali journalist, the sixth to be slain in the country this year.The death highlights the dangers...
Mideast expert weighs in on situation
Thousands of people in speeding trucks or pulling carts piled high with clothes and furniture are fleeing a region north of Mogadishu amid gunfire and explosions.Thi...
American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful i...
The families of merchant seamen held by Somali pirates for more than 18 months say the crew members are being forced to call home with warnings they could suffer fur...
Two Danish brothers, including one alleged to have received terror training in his native Somalia, have been arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack, Denmark's s...
EUGENE, Oregon (June 1) - One has built a track on the outskirts of his country's capital to aid his recovery from injury, the other trained in the U.S. to fine-tune...
Kenya's military spokesman says Kenyan troops have captured a rebel-held town in southern Somalia.Maj. Emmanuel Chirchir on Wednesday also announced the deaths of 17...
Oliver North gets firsthand look at dangerous mission
The number of people fleeing their homes and becoming refugees or displaced in their own countries will increase in the next 10 years as a result of a host of intert...
Somalia's prime minister said Thursday that his country has more to offer than pirates, militants and images of the hungry, and that Somalis can even teach the world...
The spokesman for the African Union force in Somalia says that militants ambushed a convoy of vehicles carrying Somalia's president but that the attack was repelled....
African Union and Somali troops seized a town on the outskirts of Mogadishu on Friday from Islamist militants after three days of fighting, marking the biggest victo...
International forces cannot solve Somalia's security problems in the long term and the fragile country needs its own strong force to do the job, U.N. Secretary-Gener...
The spokesman for the African Union force in Somalia says that militants ambushed a convoy of vehicles carrying Somalia's president but that the attack was repelled....
A private intelligence firm says the Somali militant group al-Shabab has threatened to bring down Kenya's skyscrapers within two weeks, a warning that followed a bom...
Thousands of people in speeding trucks or pulling carts piled high with clothes and furniture fled a region north of Mogadishu on Thursday amid the sounds of gunfire...
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