NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 50 African Union peacekeepers have died in fighting in Somalia since a major offensive against Islamist militants began two weeks ago, officials told The Associated Press on Friday. The death toll is far higher than any publicly acknowledged casualty figures for the AU, which appears to be trying to…
By MOHAMMED IBRAHIM and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Friday, December 31, 2010 MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s Parliament demanded Thursday that the government immediately suspend the operations of several foreign security contractors because the lawmakers said they had no idea what the contractors were actually doing. While Western officials have recently acknowledged that a number of private security…
(note: links and blog contents are for research and educational purposes only, links are not to endorse sites or contents) in a recent press release puntland the autonomous region of somalia has announced signing an agreement with Saracen international private security company to train its forces click here for the full press release Somalia is…
