As leaders from all the world were meeting today to discuss ways ramp up Support for the nascent Federal republic of Somalia, hundreds of agitated protesters stood near where the Somalia conference was being held. needles to say the flags that were being waved, slogans on the placards, music and the lively chanting, are emblematic of…
According to a world bank report released recently, a total of $130 million is unaccounted for the years of 2009 and 2010, and it doesn’t come as a surprise. The nascent Transitional Federal Government (TFG), were previously accused by former chief of Somalia’s public finance unit turned whistle blower Abdirizak Fartaag, in a leaked report…
For years now, whenever a Somali news article’s subject was sheikh Mukhtar abu zubeyr AKA Ahmed Abdi Godane , a picture of thin middle aged Somali man, wearing a pair photo-chromic glasses with sparse facial hair looking into the distance is attached, the purported picture, as that of the leader of one of Al Qaeda’s…
(note: links and blog contents are for research and educational purposes only, links are not to endorse sites or contents) US military launched a drone strike yesterday, against a convoy carrying international militants linked to Al Qaeda, the convoy was travelling in an area known as K60 approximately 60KM (35M) south of the capital Mogadishu in the lower…
(note: links and blog contents are for research purposes only, links are not to endorse sites or contents) Earlier today The Somali War Monitor received a press release from Harakat Al Shabaab Al Mujahideen (HSM) containing images of personal Identification documents belonging to some 10 burundian soldiers . The soldiers were killed in fierce battle…
