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Uganda ready to send 10,000 troops to Somalia

Kampala(Puntlandi.com) Uganda is set to send thousands of its reserve troops for deployment to Somalia if the US government provides promised funding for the mission, the Chief of Defence Forces has said.
Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, in an interview in Kotido District on Thursday, said; “we can even call up to 10,000 [reservists] but that will depend [...]

Kadija Hayir: ‘A Somali woman leader, Cultivates Her Garden and Her Community

Kadija Hayir is an active parent in the Lawrence Heights Community. She is involved in her children’s schools, in community family gardens and in facilitating parent groups for the “Connecting Families” parent, children and teen’s education

Breakin New: Al-shabaab storm Mogadishu hotel; several lawmakers killed

Mogadisho(Puntlandi.com)  30 people reported killed, 9 of dem are politicians(MP) after suspected rebels from the militant al-Shabaab movement have stormed a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
Suspected rebels from the al-Shabaab movement has stormed a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and killed 15 members of its parliament, said a parliamentarian.
- They have slaughtered 15 MPs. We [...]

Somalia: Are Somali Americans snared victims of Al Sabab or Terrorist?

By Dr.Yusuf  O.  Al-Azhari
Frm. Ambassador                                                                    

There has been recently, highly promulgated row on finding few Somali Americans who were prosecuted as being sympathetic to Al Shabab terrorist group. The US Justice Department and the FBI, announced that four separate indictments were unsealed in the District of Minnesota, the Southern District of Alabama and the Southern [...]

press release:Puntland Government Protects Press Freedoms, But Security Comes First

Press Release               Ministry of Information,      Puntland  
                                                                                                                 August 18, 2010
  
Puntland Government Protects Press Freedoms, But Security Comes First
The Government of Puntland is recognized locally and worldwide as a State where freedom of speech and of the press is protected and enshrined in the Puntland Constitution. This is a fact, but anyone who needs further [...]

Ugandan Government pays 7/11 bomb victims

Kampala(Puntlandi.com) The government is to begin paying the July 11 bomb victims’ reparation and survivors’ hospital bills, according to an advertorial published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs yesterday.

In the publication, 76 names of the dead and their family contacts were listed. The names of those who were admitted, treated and discharged, and some still undergoing [...]

How we bombed Kampala city

DEADLY CREW: Hassan Luyima (Left) cries as he is paraded before journalists yesterday in Kampala. INSET CLOCKWISE: Edris Nsubuga, Issa Luyima and Mohamoud Mugisha. PHOTOS BY STEPHEN WANDERA
By Risdel Kasasira  (email the author)
Posted Friday, August 13 2010 at 00:00
Together, they cut the image of four innocent youths—only until they narrated how they planned and executed [...]

Somali state of Puntland claims win against Al-Qaeda

Garowe(Puntlandi.com) Somali state of Puntland said Wednesday they had taken control of the last base used by Al-Qaeda-linked militants led by local warlord Mohamed Said Atom.
Puntland forces launched their assault on Sunday, nearly two weeks after a similar deadly offensive targeting the group of several hundred fighters led by Atom, who is on a UN [...]

Puntland launches new raid on Al-Qaeda-linked militia

Bosaso (Puntlandi.com) – Security forces from the Somali state of Puntland launched Sunday a fresh raid against an Al-Qaeda-linked militia, leaving at least seven people dead, officials and witnesses said.
The attack comes nearly two weeks after a similar deadly offensive targeting the group of several hundred fighters led by local warlord Mohamed Said Atom, who is [...]

WATCH: Najma Ahmed asked Question the President Obama about Somalia

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