Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Belgium's frigate, Louise Marie, which operated unde r the EU anti-piracy "Atalanta" mission off Somalia will be back in the Belgian p ort of Zeebrugge by 23 December, military sources told PANA here. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) a nd a host of other organisations and countries Friday joined the growing list of those condemning the deadly suicide bombing that killed offi cials of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, students, journalists, and other civilians in Mogadishu Thursday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ ) Friday confirmed the death of a third journalist, Yaasir Mario, following Thur s dayâ?s suicide attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, which claimed nearly 50 lives, incl uding three government ministers. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The International Federation of the Journalists (IFJ) has strongly condemned the murder of Somali journalist Mohamed Amin Adan Abdulle, a reporter with Radio Sha belle and Hassan Zubeyr Haji Hassan, a cameraman working with Al-Arabia TV, both killed Thursday in a bomb attack on a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Security Council has strongly condemned the deadly terrorist attack at a graduation ceremony of medical students in Mogadishu, Somalia. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The United Nations has said it will seek US$689 million for 174 humanitarian projects for Somalia in 2010. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian Immigration Department said it had intensified i nvestigations into 22 Somali juveniles believed to be victims of an internationa l syndicate in human trafficking. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Somalia's notorious rebel group, the Al Shabab, has move d closer to Kenya after taking control of Dhobley town, near the common border, b ut Kenyan security officials had no immediate reaction to the new developments late on Saturday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- A global press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has welcomed the release of two foreign journalists who were k idnapped in Somalia last year. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) on Monday condemned the recen t executions in Al Shabab, Somalia, carried out by stoning. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has urged the international community to step-up response to humanitarian crisis facing Somali children. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UNICEF has lauded the announcement by the Somali Tra nsitional Federal Government (TFG) on Friday that it intends to become a party t o the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) is to train some 2,0000 Soma li soldiers to support the Somali transitional government, according to an offic i al communiquأ© made available to PANA in Brussels on Wednesday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has vowed to help Somalia contain piracy off its coast and in the Gulf of Aden. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The Prime Minister of Somalia, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sh armarke, is expected on Thursday in Brussels for a visit during which he will ho l d talks with the European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian aid, Kar e l De Gucht, European official sources said in Brussels on Tuesday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdall ah has urged the Horn of African nation leaders to pursue peace and reconciliati o n to avert chaos in the country. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Somalia and Libya Sunday reviewed the areas of cooperati on between the two countries, with a view to ensuring better relations. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Lynn Pascoe, has appealed to the international financial sector for support for the t ransitional government in strife-torn Somalia. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The Chief of General Staff of the National Defence Fo rce (NDF) of Burundi, Major-General Niyombari Godfroid, on Thursday set conditio n s that must be met by the international community to enable it keep its forces i n Somalia. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- A day after the 'mistaken' arrest and release of Somali Junior Defence Minister Youssuf Mohamed Siad by security agencies in Kampala, t h e Uganda government has expressed regret over the arrest in which the minister s u stained facial injuries. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Tuesday's â~mistakenâ? arrest of Somali Junior Defenc e Minister Youssuf Mohamed Siad by Uganda's supreme intelligence organ Chieftain c y of Military Intelligence (CMI) puts the leader of the land-locked East African nation, Yoweri Museveni, in a tight situation, considering his country's peaceke e ping role in Somalia, analysts said. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Ugandan authorities have set free Somalia's junior Defe nce Minister Youssef Mohammed Siad, who was arrested Tuesday afternoon by operat i ves of Uganda's military intelligence on the suspicion he was a dissident. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned t he suspension, on Thursday, of three Voice of America (VOA) reporters in the sem i -autonomous region of Puntland in northeastern Somalia. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- The struggling African Union (AU) Mission in Somalia (AMIS) has suffered a further blow with the European Union (EU) suspending financial support for it due to alleged lack of accountability by the AU, which deployed the mission to pacify the Horn of Africa nation. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- More than 50,000 Somali civilians have fled to Kenya sin ce the beginning of the year, to escape continuing fighting and a prolonged drou g ht, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said in a news dispatch made available to PANA here on Saturday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Nigeria has taken its campaign for a change in the mandate of the African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), from peace keeping to peace enforcement, to the global stage by calling on the U N to review the mission's mandate. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- France has evacuated 17 persons wounded in Thursday's ter rorist attack on the headquarters of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISO M ) in Mogadishu to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, official sources in Paris said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The death toll from Thursday's attack on the headquarter s of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) headquarters in Mogadishu, So m alia, has now reached 21, according to the African Union (AU) Special Representa t ive in Somalia, Ambassador Nicolas Bwakira. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- At last 10 Burundian soldiers were killed and severa l others wounded in Thursday's suicide attack on the African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base near Mogadishu, S omalia, according to the spokesperson of the Burundian army, Maj. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Thursday said he was shoc ked and outraged with the suicide attack that killed nine African Union peacekee p ers in Somalia (AMISOM). Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Uganda peacekeeping commander, Major General Nathan Mig isha, was injured while his Burundian deputy, Juvenile Niyonguruza, died instant l y in twin explosions by suspected suicide bombers embedded in a convoy of peace n egotiators inside their fortified compound on Thursday morning. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- A frigate of the Belgian marines rescued 38 Somalis whose boat capsized in the Gulf of Aden while they were heading for Yemen, a Belgian military statement said here Wednesday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, on Thursday ar rived in Somaliland, northwest Somalia, for talks with officials over the growin g volatile political situation in the region. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdall ah, on Friday welcomed a visit to Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Somaliland by a delegation of UN officials from the Somalia office. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The conflict in Somalia is being prolonged by people who see peace as signalling the end to their financial power, a UN official said in Tripoli on Tuesday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Soma lia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, has called on the Horn of Africa nation's warring pa r ties to resolve their differences during the holy month of Ramadan. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- Egyptian security sources said Tuesday that eight Somali p irates captured last week after two Egyptian fishermen escaped from their custod y , were on Monday transferred from a holding cell in Suez to state security headq u arters in Cairo, the Egyptian capital. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The International Crisis Group (ICG) has warned that if the self-declared government of Puntland does not enact meaningful reforms and r e ach out to all clans, the region that has so far enjoyed relative peace, may bre a k up violently, adding to the chaos in Somalia. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Ahead of the first anniversary on 23 August of the kidnapp ing in Mogadishu of Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan, their families have issued a joint statement promising to continue with efforts to effect their release. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN humanitarian agency, Wednesday called for unhindere d access to suffering populations in Somalia, saying the Horn of Africa nation w a s one of the most dangerous places for aid workers in the world. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The United Nations has strongly condemned Sunday's attack on its aid compound in southern Somalia. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- UNICEF said Thursday it had taken the unprecedented step of postponing the dispatch of hundreds of tons of life-saving nutritional suppl i es to troubled Somalia due to the prevailing insecurity in the country. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Children's Fund (UNCIEF) said on Thursday that Soma li children were at high risk as escalating hostilities against aid work had con t inued to hamper aid delivery. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Ab dallah, on Wednesday welcomed the release of the four aid workers and their two p ilots from captivity in Somalia. Full text...

NewYork- US (PANA) -- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Antonio Guterres , has called on the international community to offer more help to support Somali refugees. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- UNICEF has said that exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months is one of the most effective life-saving interventions for thousands of children in Somalia, where one child in every 10 dies before its first birthd a y. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Special Representative for Somalia Ahmedou Ould-Abdalla h has told the UN Security Council that the Somali transitional government is on its heels trying to thwart repeate d attempts by extremist groups to overthrow it. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The fighting in Mogadishu and central Somalia is pushing thousands of Somali civilians to risk their lives to cross the Gulf of Aden and seek asylum in Yemen, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said here Tuesday. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Some European Union experts will travel to Somalia in the next few days to train the country's security forces on the fight against p i racy and terrorism, official sources told PANA Tuesday in Brussels. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Fierce fighting in Central Somalia has killed some 20 people and left more than 50 others wounded as radical Islamist rebels engaged pro-government forces, local residents said Friday. Full text...