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Islamic militias guard the Somali airport on Monday, Dec. 25, 2006. Ethiopian warplanes attacked two
Islamist-held airfields in Somalia on Monday, witnesses said, in the most
dramatic strikes yet of a war threatening to engulf the Horn of Africa.
(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Somali ambassador warns against spread
of war
ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Somali Ambassador to
Ethiopia Abdikarin Farah warned here Sunday that the war in Somalia is likely to
spill out of the Horn of Africa country.
"The war is no longer the war of Somalia, there is a
great possibility of spreading across the region," he told journalists. Full story>>
Somali Islamists say "at war" with
Ethiopia
BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Somalia's
Islamic forces are "at war with Ethiopia," a leader of Somalia's Union of
Islamic Courts (UIC) said Thursday.
"We are at war with Ethiopia, but not with the
(Somali) government," the leader, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, told the media
by telephone. Full story>>
Somali gov't rules out talks with
Islamists
NAIROBI, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The transitional
government of Somalia has ruled out further peace talks with the country's
powerful Islamists, raising fears of a looming war in the Horn of African
nation.
President Abdullahi Yusuf, whose fledgling government
has accused the Supreme Council of Islamic Courts (SCIC) of close al-Qaida
links, said the Islamists have shut the door to peace talks. Full story>>
Somali tension
escalates
NAIROBI, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Supreme Council of
Islamic Courts(SCIC) of Somalia has threatened a major attack in the Horn of
Africa country if the Ethiopians that SCIC accuses of backing the Somali interim
government don't withdraw from Somalia.
SCIC Defense Chief Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siad Inda'ade told
reporters in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Tuesday that Ethiopian troops had
better leave Somalia or else face the consequences. Full story>>
Chronology of Somali
events
BEIJING, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi said on Sunday that the country's National Defense Forces (NDF)
were forced into war against Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) after the
group declared holy war on Ethiopia. Full story>>
