Doctors Without Borders Closing Operations in Somalia After 22 Years
Staff have been attacked
Staff have been attacked
Says the nascent government's not taking the federalist system seriously
Islamist militants challenging government security
Pirates were originally hired out as a voluntary coast guard
5 killed so far this year
Making it harder to practice journalism in an already difficult place
Was a prisons colonel before the Somali Civil war started in 1991
A new book is a powerful antidote to the view of Somalia as the locus of cartoonish violence and exotic pirates.
The more things change...
After a deadly attack on a UN compound
Conspiracy to commit piracy charge remains dropped
Say it isn't clear whose drone it is
But say it is "highly unlikely" it was shot down by militants
Militias used roadblocks to terrorize travelers
Commercial banking licenses to be released by end of the year
According to the UN
Private actors thwarted from providing relief
Most of the prisoners were convicted of targeted killings, soldier was killed by a stray bullet
Security improved, doctors now see people with normal illnesses
Shooting occurred shortly after the British reopened their embassy
30 killed in suicide bombings aimed at courts over the weekend
Somalia getting more violent with a government
Interior minister says all the militants who carried out the attack are dead