By PressTV, The Somali militia group “Hizbul Islam” has announced that it is parting ways with al-Shabab, Press TV reports. Hizbul Islam spokesman Mohamed Moallin made the surprising announcement on Monday, the Press TV correspondent in Mogadishu reported. Moallin told reporters that al-Shabab fighters are no different than unbelievers.
Continue ReadingBy Peter Clottey, Eritrea’s UN envoy said Asmara has petitioned the Security Council to lift sanctions on his country after a monitoring group said it found no evidence that Eritrea supports the Somali-based Islamist militant group al-Shabab. Ambassador Araya Desta said Eritrea has yet to officially receive a copy of the UN monitoring group’s report […]
Continue ReadingBy Capital FM, Eritrea on Saturday denounced as unfounded US sanctions imposed on two Eritrean government officials accused of links to al-Qaeda affiliated Somali rebels. They had been targeted “not because there is a shred of truth or material evidence to the false accusations heaped upon them” but because the US wanted to give the […]
Continue Reading“Damn those Al-Shabab, Damn all those ungrateful Somalis! has become the West’s not so silent Lament,” Thomas C Mountain By Thomas C. Mountain, In a worrying sign for the powers that be in the west, the Somali national resistance under the umbrella of Al–Shabab has made its first major breakthrough in the northern region of Somalia by […]
Continue ReadingBy Sophia Tesfamariam, Eritreans have been watching the flurry of reports emanating from the Ethiopian capital and have been following the minority regime’s latest shameful and embarrassing pandering at the UN Security Council. It was indeed a spectacle, one that the western media has chosen to ignore, for obvious reasons, but a spectacle witnessed by […]
Continue ReadingBy David Clarke (Reuters), Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked rebels have extensive funding, recruiting and training networks within Kenya, and have also established connections with jihadist groups across the continent, according to a UN report. A UN Monitoring Group report on Somalia and Eritrea obtained by Reuters said non-Somali Kenyan nationals now constitute the largest and most […]
Continue ReadingBy Thomas C. Mountain The World Food Program (WFP), one of the U.N.’s biggest aid agencies, has a very nasty history in Somalia. Back in 2006 just as Somali farmers brought their grain harvest to market the WFP began the distribution of its entire years grain aid for Somalia. With thousands of tons of free […]
Continue ReadingBy Madote.com, Meles Zenawi’s skills in terrorist price gouging, has inflated the value of Al-Shabab, from a small-time unpopular misfits, who are not even capable of controlling Mogadishu, to an international terrorist organization capable of harming US security. He has nickle and dimed Washington for billions in aid, and has been given a free hand […]
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