The worst place in the world to be a woman
The worst place in the world to be a woman LISA SHANNON is a women’s-rights activist and co-founder of first sexual-violence centre in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Through Women for Women International she set up Run for Congo Women, a global effort to support more than 1,400 Congolese women battered by strife. Ms Shannon’s first book,…
Somalia UN World Food Program: Refuses to pay and finance Al-Shabaab terrorism
A human migration that started more than a month A table made of bits and pieces, an old notebook, green crumbling walls: this is where Luul Mohamed, the 46-year-old head of the pediatrics department at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu examines a hundred children every day. Sheesam comes in with her mother. She…
In Pictures: Somalis flee to Ethiopia
Somali refugees forced to flee drought are continuing their lives in camps across the border in Ethiopia. Resilience is hardly the word for the refugees that have trekked across the desert from deep in Somalia to Dolo Ado just over the Ethiopian border. There is a stoicism – an inner toughness – that hides the…
Mission To Kill: The Architect Of Ten Years Of Terror
The weeks before President Obama ordered Navy SEALs into Pakistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden, administration officials weighed using American warplanes to obliterate the terror mastermind’s fortified compound from the sky or sending commandos on a high-risk mission to assault the structure from the ground. But there’s one option the administration appears to…
8,000 Peacekeepers Battle Insurgents in Somalia
The American government has been supplying arms and paying salaries for these Somali troops.
Captured pirates sentenced in Seychelles
July 2010 Pirates sentenced in Seychelles