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Articles Written by: AWEYS YUSUF
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Foreign ambassadors urged Kenya on Wednesday to prevent more violence in forthcoming elections for five parliamentary seats that many fear could be a new flashpoint after this year's post-election crisis.
The June 11 by-elections ...
From AWEYS YUSUF,
Boston Globe,
4 Jun 2008
Militias allied to the Somali government recaptured a southern port from Islamists on Tuesday, taking the death toll from an upsurge of fighting in recent days to nearly 100, witnesses said. The militias recaptured Guda town, which had been taken by the ...
From AWEYS YUSUF AND ABDI SHEIKH,
Mail & Guardian Online,
22 Apr 2008
Corpses lay on the streets of Mogadishu on Monday after at least 81 people were killed in battles over the weekend between Islamist-led insurgents and Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's interim government. Northern districts of the coastal capital ...
From AWEYS YUSUF AND ABDI SHEIKH,
Mail & Guardian Online,
21 Apr 2008
Hospitals in Mogadishu overflowed with the wounded on Sunday and the death toll from mortar strikes on the city's sprawling main market reached at least 17. Scores of civilians at the Bakara Market were hurt on Saturday when troops positioned at the ...
From AWEYS YUSUF AND MOHAMED ABDI,
Mail & Guardian Online,
30 Mar 2008
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed in Mogadishu on Saturday when troops at the Villa Somalia presidential palace returned fire against Islamist insurgents who attacked it with mortar bombs, witnesses said.
President Abdullahi Yusuf ...
From AWEYS YUSUF AND ABDI SHEIKH,
Boston Globe,
29 Mar 2008
Somalis uprooted by fighting in Mogadishu looted trucks carrying United Nations food aid on Friday, peacekeepers said, highlighting what relief agencies warn is a fast deteriorating humanitarian catastrophe. Somalia now has one million internal refugees, ...
From ABDI SHEIKH AND AWEYS YUSUF,
Mail & Guardian Online,
28 Mar 2008
Somalia's Islamist insurgents vowed on Thursday to launch more hit-and-run attacks against the government, saying their tactics were designed to reduce civilian casualties. Islamist fighters briefly seized the town of Jowhar, north of Mogadishu, on ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents in Somalia say their inclusion on a U.S. terrorism list will help recruiting and has spurred them to strengthen ties with other groups blacklisted by Washington.
"We were not terrorists," rebel commander ...
From AWEYS YUSUF AND ABDI SHEIKH,
Boston Globe,
21 Mar 2008
Battles erupted in Somalia's capital on Wednesday between Islamist rebels and Ethiopian troops backing the government a day after the United Nations said it was still too dangerous to send peacekeepers there. Witnesses in northern Mogadishu said three ...
From AWEYS YUSUF AND ABDI SHEIKH,
Mail & Guardian Online,
19 Mar 2008
Islamist insurgents cut off the heads of three Somali soldiers south of the capital on Thursday and the United Nations special envoy said he would try to set up peace talks between the opposition and government. It was the first case of beheadings since ...
