Somalis build mosque on cemetery
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Somali militiamen are building a mosque on the site of an Italian cemetery, which they desecrated last week.
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The transitional government in Somalia signs an agreement in Jeddah aimed at uniting clans, but Islamists reject it.
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KISMAAYO, Somalia, Sept. 25 -- Islamic fighters in this Somali port city opened fire Monday toward residents who were burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest the takeover of the city hours earlier by the Islamic Courts militia.
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Two people were killed in Somalia, a Horn of African nation that has been wracked by lawlessness for the past 16 years, officials said Tuesday.
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Officials with the Islamic militia controlling much of southern Somalia alleged that Ethiopian troops had arrived in the country Sunday to bolster Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed transitional government.
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Mortars were fired at Somali government troops and Ethiopian soldiers in the chaotic capital Mogadishu on Friday, Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle said.
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Ongoing clashes in the capital left nearly 300 Somalis dead and hundreds more wounded last month, a local human rights group said Saturday.
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Plans for what would be one of Germanyâs largest mosques are rattling an ancient city to its foundations.
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NAIROBI, Aug. 22 -- Members of a new Somali transitional parliament were sworn in Sunday, a key step toward establishing the country&#39;s first national government since 1991.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Somali police stepped up   security patrols in the government's temporary base of Baidoa   on Tuesday as part of investigations into the country's first   known suicide bombing, which targeted President Abdullahi   Yusuf.
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Grieving relatives and villagers buried a slain Pakistani radical cleric on Thursday, but almost 70 followers killed with him when troops stormed Islamabad's Red Mosque were interred without ceremony in unmarked graves.
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Somalia's government vowed on Saturday to bring to justice militiamen who exhumed hundreds of skeletons from an Italian colonial-era cemetery and dumped them near Mogadishu's airport.
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Thousands of Somalis chanted anti-American slogans on Monday at an Islamist protest against a U.S.-backed plan to send foreign peacekeepers to prop up the country's tottering interim government.
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Grieving relatives and villagers buried a rebel Pakistani cleric on Thursday, but almost 70 followers killed with him when troops stormed an Islamabad mosque were interred without ceremony in unmarked graves.
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Residents of the town housing Somalia's interim government stocked up with provisions on Friday as troops tested weaponry ahead of a feared attack by rival Islamists in the Horn of Africa nation.
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The Somali peace process that began in Kenya two years ago could soon come to a close. Somalia&#39;s new parliament, which is sitting in Kenya&#39;s capital, Nairobi, is on the verge of selecting a president, and
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Hundreds of Ethiopian troops arrived to protect Somalia's government Friday as witnesses said a powerful Islamic militia massed nearby, raising concerns of clashes between the two forces.