Over 100 Islamic courts fighters massed to attack a government base in Mogadishu. Islamists shelled the Mogadishu airport as 400 Ugandan troops arrived. “Gunmen” stormed a local meeting of police and “vigilantes” and killed 5. A former police colonel and 3 others were also murdered in the capital.
African force attacked in Somalia
Somalia: Police colonel and three others killed in Mogadishu
A group of 20 Islamic Courts fighters have been spotted near the southern town of Kolbio on the Kenyan border. The government is appealing to clan leaders to attend the reconciliation conference. Egypt promised to assist in building Somalia’s governmental institutions.
Seven were wounded in Islamist mortar attacks in Mogadishu. Heavily armed troops from Puntland are deploying to Baidoa. The UN humanitarian coordinator for Somalia is hopeful about the prospect for peace .
Over 1,500 Ugandan troops are headed to Mogadishu. Burundi will send 1,700 peacekeepers in the near future. The size of the entire African Union force is slated at 8,000. The national reconciliation conference will be held on April 16. Islamists attempted to murder Mogadishu’s port manager.
First African Union Peacekeepers Arrive in Somalia
A police station was the target of a grenade attack. A local militia commander and 4 others were killed in Mogadshu. The government announced the beginning of a security operation in the capital.
Six were wounded, including 5 police, after a grenade attack in Mogadishu. Ugandan troops have been cleared to deploy to Mogadishu. A US warship is moving to intercept a UN WFP vessel hijacked off the coast of Puntland.
Mortar attacks and fighting killed 8 and wounded 20 in Mogadishu. Shabelle reports 78 have been hospitalized due to mortar attacks in the past 24 hours. Ugandan officials are in Mogadishu to plan for the peacekeeping deployment.
Ethiopian Adviser Says Times ‘Fabricated™ Report
US Used Base in Ethiopia to Hunt Al Qaeda in Africa
Islamists threaten suicide attacks. Two government officials have been assassinated in Mogadishu. Mortars have hit the Mogadishu airport.
Judge backs case against American “jihadist”
Somalia’s Islamist Leadership: Where Are They Now?
Thirteen were killed and 42 wounded in mortar attacks in Mogadishu. Ethiopian troops are taking over military camps in Kismayo. Four Swedes have been detained for fighting alongside the Islamic Courts.
UN authorises AU deployment in Somalia
16 killed in Somalian bombing
A car bomb in northern Mogadishu killed 4 and wounded 1. The ICU linked businessman released from Kenya calls for the withdrawal of Ethiopia. Somali-Britons believe the BBC Somali Service is siding with the Islamic Courts based on its coverage. Further details emerge on Eritrean and Iranian involvement in transporting al Qaeda and weapons into […]
Islamists attacked the Ethiopian Army in Mogadishu. Police in Kismayo seized weapons and are preparing to deploy 1,500 officers inside the city. A gunman attacked Medicine Sans Frontier personnel attempting to open a hospital in Bardhere. Over 1,500 Ugandan troops will deploy to Mogadishu.
Mortar and rocket attacks killed 1 and wounded 10 in Mogadishu. The interior minister blamed the Islamic Courts for the rash of attacks. Kenya released two ICU linked businessmen.
Mortars hit Mogadishu camp, residential area
The US has indicted an American for training and fighting along side al Qaeda and the islamic Courts in Somalia, and conspiring to use WMD [full indictment here]. In his latest speech Zawahiri supported terrorist attacks in Somalia and the continuation of the jihad.
Somali Islamists seek refuge in Yemen
Several Somalis were killed an wounded after the presidential compound was mortared, and stray rounds hit civilian neighborhoods. Islamists attacked the home of the commerce minister. A curfew has been put in place in Kismayo after a bomb atack yesterday. The parliament passed a new ant-terrorism law.
A grenade attack killed 4 and wounded 5, including senior military officers, during a celebration in Kismayo. Islamists bombed a police station in Mogadishu, wounding a policeman and several others. Twenty Somali Islamists, and 4 Britons have been deported from Kenya to Somalia, and have been charged with fighting besides the ICU.
The “Somali People™s Insurgence Movement,™ which supports the Islamic Courts, has claimed the responsibility for attacks in Mogadishu. Seven were killed and dozens wounded in mortar attacks in Mogadishu.
Friends of Somalia Brigades Reports Attacks on American and Ethiopian Targets, Somali Presidential Quarters
Somalia deported 39 Islamists, including the wife of Fazul Mohammed, to Ethiopia for interrogation. Yemeni newspapers claim the US is negotiating for the release of 15 US prisoners. Three Islamist insurgents were captured in Mogadishu, along with a huge cache of explosives, while 3 civilians were killed and 10 wounded during a wave of bombings […]
President Yusuf refuses to negotiate with the Islamic Courts. ICU leader Sharif Ahmed’s asylum in Yemen has been delayed. Islamists launched a mortar attack on the president’s home a daylight RPG attack on the Ambassador Hotel in Mogadishu.