Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Thousands of Somaliland residents Wednesday took to the streets of the capital Hargeisa to denounce what they termed was an incursion and aggression against the breakaway province by Puntland fighters in last week's fighting. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) will host a major international donors conference in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Thursday to draw up a disarmament blueprint for post-war Somalia. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) Commission has deplored the recent fighting that resulted in considerable loss of lives and destruction of property in the area of Sool and Sanaag between Puntland and Somaliland regions of Somalia. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia(PANA) -- At least 15 people were killed and many others wounded Friday when heavy fighting erupted between forces of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland and the self- declared autonomous regions of Puntland over a disputed border region of Sool. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed is discussing the formation of the country's new national army with former warlords sitting on the 275-member Transitional Parliament, mediators said in Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Islamic clerics and court officials in Mogadishu have opposed the proposed deployment of international peacekeepers to Somalia citing several reasons including culture and language barriers, the spread of HIV/AIDS and skirmishes between local militiamen and the foreign troops. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Security Council said Tuesday that any enhancement of the world body's role in the reconstruction of Somalia would have to be incremental and based on the outcome of discussions with the new transitional government there. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- British minister for African Affairs Chris Mullin, who is leading a nine-strong delegation on a three- day visit to the self-declared Republic of Somaliland, addressed Parliament in Hargeisa Tuesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Only peaceful negotiations will shape the future of Somalia, according to the country's new leader, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- After 14 years of bloody conflict, destruction and anarchy, Somalia Monday appealed for international assistance to turn the tide of lawlessness and instability and bring about peace and security. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- A nine-strong British delegation led by African Affairs minister Chris Mullin arrived in Hargeisa Saturday evening at the start of a three-day visit to the self- declared Republic of Somaliland. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- About 184 Zanzibari refugees in Mogadishu have complained of continuous hunger, insecurity, lack of medication and proper shelter, saying the UN refugee agency has forsaken them. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Britain is ready to assist in the training of a ground military force for Somalia to help alleviate the pressure on the African Union's peacekeeping forces. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Over 300 students at Sheikh Secondary School, their teachers, government officials and parents Thursday held the first memorial service for two British teachers shot dead a year ago on the school campus by unknown gunmen. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- As several organisations contemplate peace-building in Somalia with anticipated greater UN involvement, Secretary General Kofi Annan has stressed the need for discussions with the new Somali government on the issue. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- The Paris-based media watchdog, Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) Tuesday condemned attacks on a Somali journalist on Monday while doing his work in the Somalia capital Mogadishu. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Civil societies and human rights groups in Somaliland Monday condemned the arrest Sunday of four human rights workers witnessing a court case in the self-declared republic. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Beleaguered former African Football Confederation (CAF) vice-president and vice-chairman of the Referees Committee Farah Addo has resigned from all continental football activities, saying he was pulling out "to attend to personal matters". Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Mediators in the Sudanese peace process, as well as the rival Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) led by John Garang and the government side led by Vice President Ali Osman Taha have adjourned the talks in observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Speakers here seized the occasion of the 24th World Food Day Saturday to appeal to the donor community for increased food aid to drought-stricken Somalia, where more than 1. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Leaders of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Friday appealed to the UN to immediately deploy peacekeepers in war-ravaged Somalia whose first president was inaugurated Thursday after 13 years of chaos. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni conceded here Thursday that he personally urged the then US President George Bush to intervene militarily in war-torn Somali in 1993, but regretted that American operation went wrong. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Immediately following his induction here Thursday as president of the transitional government in Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed called for the deployment of an international peacekeeping force as he pledged to eradicate organised crime in the once lawless state. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- More than 5,000 armed soldiers from defunct Transitional National Government (TNG) that was headed by Abdiqassim Salad Hassan and the previous military regime of the late Mohamed Siad Barre Thursday backed the election of Col. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Army Colonel Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, resplendent in a Western-style suit, a curly hair, an innocent look, and even an apparent forced smile, hardly betrays the authoritarian or ruthless profile often painted by his critics. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- In its first official reaction to Sunday's election of Colonel Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed as the President of the transition government of Somalia, the self-proclaimed republic of Somaliland, Tuesday warned that it would go to war if the newly-formed government of Somalia violated its territorial integrity. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has advised Somali leaders to forget the past and work together to rebuild their war-torn country, now that they have elected Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed as their new president. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Hundreds of thousands of jubilant Somalis have been celebrating Sunday's election of Colonel Abdilahi Yusuf Ahmed as Somali President by the country's 275-member parliament in the Kenyan capital. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- Praising the election of Abdullahi Yusuf as transitional president of Somalia on Monday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan pledged the United Nations' full support for efforts to promote stability in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Somali 275-seat interim parliament Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya, elected Abdullahi Yusuf, a military man as new President for the rudderless horn of Africa nation, capping a 21-month regional peace effort. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Somaliland is opposed to the deployment of international peacekeepers, including those from the African Union (AU), according to Abdillahi Mohammed Dualle, Information and National Guidance Minister of the self-proclaimed republic. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia(PANA) -- Nearly 11,000 internally displaced drought victims have migrated from rural areas in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, settling in Garowe and other urban centres in search of food and medical relief. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Somali presidential elections are set for Sunday with three of the 27 contenders seen to have lead in the poll which will be conducted at the Nairobi's vast Moi International Sports Centre, a popular spot for hot political contents in Kenya. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Three police officers were killed and four civilians sustained injuries in a road accident Thursday along the busy Berbera-Hargeisa highway in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- At least four people, including a three-year-old boy, were killed and over 20 others wounded when fresh fighting broke out Wednesday here between gunmen loyal to the Islamic court and militiamen who control an roadblock in the city. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- About 630 Somaliland refugees returned home Sunday from Djibouti in a massive 42-truck convoy organised by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) under its voluntary repatriation exercise. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Pirates operating off the Somali coast have released 21 hostages they seized 10 days ago together with their cargo ship after receiving a 50,000-US dollar ransom from the vessel's owner. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- A seven-man delegation from the Somalia Football Federation (SFF) left here Friday for Zurich, Switzerland to hold talks with officials of the world governing football body, FIFA, on resuming support to the SFF. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Livestock development minister in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland, Idriss Ibrahim Abdi has warned Somaliland nationals against using the ports of Djibouti to export livestock to Persian Gulf countries. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- The British Department for International Development (DFID) has said that some 1. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Torrential rains accompanied by heavy winds left more than 350 people homeless after floods from two days of downpour washed away dozens of huts belonging to residents of Sanaag region. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- A ten-day educational enrolment campaign is underway in the self-proclaimed but unrecognised Republic of Somaliland. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Twenty-three illegal immigrants, including 15 Somalis and 8 Ethiopians drowned in the Gulf of Eden after being forced by the crew to jump off the boat at sea, sources said here. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Sixteen people were killed and 14 others seriously injured in a grisly road accident involving a public bus and a truck Friday evening at Baar-Haraf, some 13km south of the Somalia capital, Mogadishu. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Fresh fighting between forces of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland and neighbouring self- declared autonomous region of Puntland, over the disputed regions of Sool and Sanaag, Wednesday left at least three persons dead, sources said here Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Maxwell Gaylard Wednesday called for a speedy end to the fresh fighting in the Lower Juba region before it spreads only to jeopardise gains made in the on-going peace and reconciliation talks in Nairobi, Kenya. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- At least 160 wounded persons were hospitalised at private and public health posts in Kismayo, about 400km outside here, as a result recent factional fighting in southern Somalia, medical sources said Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Scores of Somalis who fled fighting between rival factions last week have started returning as the security situation appears to improve at Dhobley town, along the Kenya-Somalia border, UN officials said here Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN is planning a new resolution proposing punitive measures against Somali warlords considered as spoilers of the gains in the Somali peace process, a senior UN diplomat disclosed here Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The 275-member Somali Transitional Parliament Tuesday signed a cessation of hostilities accord to mark the International Peace Day as Britain warned that lasting stability in the county still face more reconciliation tests with the breakaway Republic of Somaliland. Full text...