Civilian deaths in Somalia fall in 2009: group
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A fall in street battles in the capital Mogadishu led to significantly fewer civilians being killed in Somalia this year, a human rights group said on Wednesday.



Dozens killed in Somali fighting-rights group
MOGADISHU, Nov 1 (Reuters) - At least 36 people have been killed and scores wounded in three days of fighting in towns across chaotic southern and central Somalia, a local human rights group said on Sunday.



Shell fire kills at least 30 in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Mortar bombs killed at least 30 people in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday after rebels launched shells at the president's plane and African Union (AU) peacekeepers responded with heavy artillery fire.




Somalia: "Another problem in another place
The UN's Independent Expert on Somalia, Shamsul Bari in his latest report to the Human Rights Council is urging the international community in the strongest terms to involve itself more in the crisis that is Somalia



Shell fire kills at least 30 in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Mortar bombs killed at least 30 people in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday after rebels launched shells at the president's plane and African Union (AU) peacekeepers responded with heavy artillery fire.




Insecurity "no excuse" to neglect IDPs
Aid agencies should use "traditional structures" to reach long-neglected internally displaced people (IDPs) living in conflict-prone areas around the capital, Mogadishu, civil society officials say. "Most of the IDP populations across the country live in appalling conditions, but the worst are those living around Mogadishu," Abdullahi Shirwa, of Civil Society in Action, an umbrella organization, told IRIN.




SOMALIA: Mogadishu hospital threats condemned
NAIROBI, 8 October 2009 (IRIN) - Doctors and civil society groups have condemned anonymous threats made against personnel in Madina Hospital, the main health facility in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. "The leaflets had pictures of a handgun and grenades and warned us not trea....




Human Rights Council holds interactive dialogues with Independent Expert on Somalia
Geneva (UNHRC) - The Human Rights Council this morning started its consideration of its agenda item on technical assistance and capacity-building, hearing presentations of reports by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia and the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, and holding interactive dialogues with them.




Black Hawk’s Shadow - Newsweek
Picture Mogadishu in 1992. Marauding militias loyal only to Somali clan leaders stalk the city, looting aid shipments bound for the 1.8 million Somalis facing starvation. Then, from the green-blue Indian Ocean waters, there materializes a flotilla of U.S. transports bearing aid and armed men to deliver it. In the skies overhead, U.S. attack helicopters appear, providing cover for food shipments, while an American spy plane circles the city night and day gathering intelligence on militias trying to disrupt the rescue effort




UN refugee agency says as many as 65 dead or missing in Gulf of Aden
15 September 2009 – The United Nations refugee agency said today that 16 people lost their lives and 49 others are missing and presumed dead in three separate smuggling incidents in the Gulf of Aden over the last two days. “UNHCR staff in Yemen report an increasing number of larger smuggling vessels making.....




Swedish Presidency - The EU at the UN Human Rights Council
In his speech to the European Parliament on 15 July, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt expressed the importance that the Swedish Presidency attaches to promoting respect for human rights within the framework of the EU common foreign policy



Ramadan fighting in Mogadishu is "worst in 20 years"
MOGADISHU, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Fighting in Mogadishu during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has so far been some of the worst in 20 years, killing 32 civilians in four days this week, a human rights group in the Somali capital said on Thursday.




Blast kills group of disabled war veterans in Mogadishu
NAIROBI, 14 September 2009 (IRIN) - At least 12 disabled people were killed in Mogadishu when a shell landed in their compound, according to eyewitnesses. "We were preparing to break our fast when a shell landed on our compound in Demartini hospital; 12 were killed on the spot and 16 injured and taken to hospital," said Abdullahi Hassan Hussein, a disabled activist.




2008 Human Rights Reports: Somalia
Somalia* has an estimated population of seven million. The territory, which was recognized as the Somali state from 1960 to 1991, was fragmented into regions led in whole or in part by three distinct entities: the Transitional Federal Institutions, with the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP) in Baidoa, and the presidency and most of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Mogadishu; the self-declared Republic of......




UNICEF and partners continue delivering nutritional services for Somali children
NAIROBI, 24 July 2008 - While security conditions continue to deteriorate particularly in the Southern parts of Somalia, UNICEF and partners completed the second round of distributing UNIMIX- food supplement rich with vitamins and minerals- to 54,000 under-five children in the IDP camps of Afgoye Corridor and Mogadishu.




“Drop the gun and pick up the pen”
Elman Peace Centre is a non-government organization located in Mogadishu, Somalia that has since 1992 strived to promote peace and stability in the war torn country of Somalia. It was developed by a Somali engineer named Mohamed Ali Ahmed who was also recognized by the name of Elman.