Over 6,300 Somali refugees returned home from Kenya in Jan.
by Chrispinus Omar
NAIROBI, Feb. 9 — More than 6,300 Somali refugees cross into Somalia from neighboring countries, the vast majority from Kenya in January,...
UN official condemns Somalia rape verdict
Navi Pillay calls "deeply disturbing" the conviction of a journalist and the alleged rape victim he interviewed.
The UN's top human rights official has condemned...
U.S. urges lifting of U.N. arms embargo on Somalia: envoys
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States is urging fellow members of the U.N. Security Council to agree to demands by the...
Somali PM launches Human Rights Task Force and attacks “culture of
Prime Minister’s Media Office|
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
His Excellency Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon today launched an Independent Task Force on Human Rights to tackle...
Somali woman allegedly raped by soldiers sentenced to prison for 'insulting government'
Farah said the woman’s prison term would be delayed by one year so she could care for her young child.
The alleged rape victim was...