International Business News - Somalia http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A fundamentalist Muslim suspected by the U.S. of collaborating with al-Qaida has taken over as head of Somalia's exiled opposition movement, pushing out a relative moderate who tried to strike a peace deal with the government, officials said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/hardline-islamist-takes-over-somali-opposition.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:29:28 EDT Pirates have seized a cargo ship with 20 Filipino sailors on board off the coast of Somalia, a Philippine government official said Wednesday. The pirates climbed aboard the bulk carrier Stella Maris in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Estaban Conejos told reporters. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/pirates-off-somalia-seize-ship-with-20-filipinos.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:31:04 EDT Hours of fighting in the Somali capital killed at least seven civilians, including three young siblings who were leaving a religious school when a mortar landed nearby, witnesses said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/7-civilians-die-in-fighting-in-somali-capital.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:12:23 EDT The U.N. World Food Program says attacks on ships carrying supplies to Somalia combined with drought could force the east African country into a famine like the one seen in the early 1990s. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/wfp-ship-attacks-could-cause-famine.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:33:09 EDT A World Food Program contractor was gunned down in the fifth fatal attack this year on one of the agency's workers, the WFP said Tuesday as thousands of Somalis gathered to protest the assaults. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/somalia-5th-world-food-program-worker-slain.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:45:01 EDT Gunmen shot and killed two Somali aid workers and wounded a third within 24 hours, witnesses said Saturday, in the latest sign of spiraling violence against workers struggling to deal with the war-ravaged country's humanitarian crisis. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/3-somali-aid-workers-shot-in-24-hours.htm Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:09:16 EDT Somali insurgents killed at least two people in an overnight attack on an army base 15 miles northeast of the government headquarters in Baidoa, a village chairman said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/somali-insurgents-attack-government-base.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:42:46 EDT The U.N. food agency says Somali gunmen have shot and killed one of its drivers in southern Somalia. The World Food Program says Ahmed Saalim is the fourth agency employee to be killed this year in Somalia. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/somalia-un-agency-driver-killed.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:04:39 EDT The U.N. has condemned the slaying of a senior staff member in Somalia but says there are no plans to halt operations. Officials say unidentified gunmen shot Osman Ali Ahmed as he was leaving a mosque in Mogadishu on Sunday night. Ahmed--who was head of the U.N. Development Program in Somalia--died on way to the hospital. His brother was seriously wounded in the attack and his son suffered minor injuries. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/un-condemns-somalia-slaying-of-aid-official.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:29:52 EDT Insurgents battled troops allied to Somalia's government in some of the worst fighting in this lawless country in weeks, killing at least 20 people, witnesses said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/witnesses-say-20-people-killed-in-somalia-clashes.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:11:21 EDT Suspected Islamic insurgents kidnapped a Swede and a Dane on Saturday in a town in southwestern Somalia, residents and Sweden's Foreign Ministry said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080628/swede-dane-kidnapped-in-southwestern-somalia.htm Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:35:03 EDT Somalia needs urgent medical aid to save thousands of malnourished children and wounded adults who are trapped in one of the most violent, lawless countries in the world, an international aid group said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/somalia-pirates-demand-1m-ransom-for-4-europeans.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:28:04 EDT A Dutch shipping company says a freighter hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia a month ago is free, along with its crew, and sailing toward the Suez Canal. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/hijacked-dutch-ship-released-in-somalia-crew-safe.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:18:06 EDT A German child who was kidnapped by Somali gunmen along with his parents and another European is suffering from a fever and needs medical help, a clan elder said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/kidnapped-german-child-ill-in-somalia.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:25:04 EDT A government official in northern Somalia says Somali pirates have kidnapped four Europeans from a yacht off the Gulf of Aden. The captives are a German family of three and a French captain, said Jama Hirsi Farah, minister of state for security in the semiautonomous region of Puntland. He said they were abducted Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/somali-pirates-kidnap-4-europeans.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:18:16 EDT An al-Qaida spokesman has urged Islamist militants in Somalia to fight a United Nations peacekeeping force slated to be deployed there. In a 19-minute video posted on a militant Web site Sunday, Abu Yahya Al-Libi also urged Muslim extremists to set up an Islamic government in Somalia. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/al-qaida-urges-somalis-to-fight-un.htm Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:46:28 EDT The head of the U.N. refugee agency in Somalia's capital was seized from his home by armed men, the agency said Sunday. The man, a Somali who works for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, was taken Saturday night, said Millicent Mutuli, a spokeswoman for the UNHCR in neighboring Kenya. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/un-employee-in-somalia-seized-from-home.htm Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:48:30 EDT Ayan Ali Hassan decided to leave Mogadishu when militiamen boarded her school bus and kidnapped two screaming boys. For Abdi Gadir Osman, the moment came when a mortar slammed into his mother's home, killing her while she slept on a hot afternoon. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/74520-somali-refugees.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080618/somalis-flee-terror-pour-into-kenya-refugee-camp.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080618/somalis-flee-terror-pour-into-kenya-refugee-camp.htm Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:59:47 EDT Gunmen fatally shot a driver for the U.N. food agency in southern Somalia, the agency said Friday. The World Food Program said Hassan Abdi's death near the village of Lego marks the third killing of a WFP-contracted driver in the country this year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080613/un-contracted-driver-slain-in-somalia.htm Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:48:49 EDT A spokesman for Somalia's president says Islamic insurgents fired mortars at the airport as the president was preparing to fly out. Spokesman Hussein Mohamed Mohamud says no one was hurt in Thursday's attack. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080612/airport-targeted-with-somali-president-inside.htm Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:57:25 EDT