Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, has stated that he has discussed the issue of Ukrainian civilians captured in Somalia with his counterpart Ali Omar, Somalia’s Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs. Source: Kuleba on Twitter Quote from Kuleba: “I spoke with Somalia’s Acting Foreign Minister Ali Omar on the situation regarding the Ukrainian citizens […]
By Giulia Paravicini and Dawit Endeshaw NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somalia rejected any discussions with Ethiopia about Addis Ababa’s agreement to lease a port in the breakaway region of Somaliland, as regional heads of state gathered on Thursday to try to defuse a growing diplomatic crisis. A memorandum of understanding signed on Jan. 1 calls for […]
Somalia has turned away a plane transporting officials from Ethiopia to the self-declared republic of Somaliland in a major escalation of the diplomatic row between the countries. Somalia’s information minister told the BBC the plane did not have permission to be in the country’s airspace. The Ethiopian officials were visiting Somaliland to discuss a deal, […]
Navy SEALsU.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Jayme Pastoric 2 Navy SEALs fell into the water while on a mission off the coast of Somalia on Thursday. A search and rescue operation is still underway. The pair were boarding a vessel when one fell into the water, and the other jumped in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing after conducting a nighttime boarding mission Thursday off the coast of Somalia, according to three U.S. officials. The SEALs were on an interdiction mission, climbing up a vessel when one got knocked off by high waves. Under their protocol, when one SEAL is overtaken the next […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign affairs ministry says that four of its citizens were among those captured by al-Qaida-linked extremists in Somalia after their helicopter that was contracted by the United Nations made an emergency landing in territory controlled by the militants earlier this week. Officials say the helicopter went down on Wednesday because […]
Two U.S. Navy sailors went missing Thursday off the coast of Somalia, U.S. Central Command said in a statement Friday. The sailors, whose names were not released, were deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet’s area of operations, the command, known as CENTCOM, said. “Search and rescue operations are currently ongoing to locate the two sailors,” […]
A UN helicopter crash-landed in an area controlled by armed Islamists in Somalia after its main rotor blade was hit by an object, a UN source has said. Al-Shabab fighters seized the helicopter, with unverified reports suggesting that a passenger was shot dead, the source told the BBC. A further six people on board are […]
(Bloomberg) — Somalia recalled its envoy to Ethiopia after its landlocked neighbor signed a memorandum of understanding with Somaliland, a breakaway enclave, giving it access to the Red Sea. Most Read from Bloomberg In exchange, Ethiopia will offer a stake in its flagship carrier, Ethiopian Airlines while Somaliland’s president Muse Bihi Abdi said it would […]
Somalia has described an agreement that landlocked Ethiopia made with the self-declared republic of Somaliland over sea access as an act of “aggression”. Somaliland seceded from Somalia more than 30 years ago, but is not recognised internationally. It said that Ethiopia agreed to recognise its independence at some point in the future in exchange for […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Another vessel has been hijacked near the coast of Somalia, a British sea trade monitoring agency said Friday, raising more concerns that Somali pirates are active again, nearly a decade after they caused chaos for international shipping. A dhow trading vessel was seized by heavily armed people near the […]