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The year 2011 saw Libyan ‘revolutionaries’ call for democracy and human rights. However, the gruesome footage of the capture and subsequent death of Muammar Gaddafi indicates that the...
The Presidential poll, on June 26, 2010, in Somaliland, saw the incumbent, Dahir Rayale Kahin of the Unity of Democrats Party, deposed by his longtime rival, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud Silanyo of the...
Comprised of a former British protectorate and an Italian colony, Somalia was created in 1960, when the two territories merged. In 1991, the country's military government, led by President Siad...
In this videoclip, Lyle Cupido of the South African Institute of International Affairs, speaks on the confusion surrounding the prosecution of Somali pirates.
Until recently, the common view was that maritime piracy had been relegated to history with its muskets, parrots and the Captain Hook personas, but it captured the attention and interest of the...
The young Cuban pilot, with the wary look of a hunted animal, sat on a patch of sand in the shade of a thorn bush guarded by a troop of dusty Somali soldiers in the middle of the Ogaden desert....
A remote-controlled landmine blew up a government vehicle in the Somali capital on Wednesday, killing at least five police officers and wounding three others, witnesses and a police source said.