Djibouti: Radio Journalist Threatened and Tortured for 24 Hours

[RSF] Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns radio journalist Farah Abadid Hildid's abduction by the police yesterday and the threats and torture to which he was subjected during the 24 hours he was held. Hildid works for La Voix de Djibouti, a radio station that broadcasts on the shortwave from Europe and is now also available on the Internet.

Djibouti: Government Refutes Al Shabaab's Claims

Garowe Online (Garowe)-The Djibouti government issued a statement Wednesday denying allegations from Al Shabaab that Djibouti troops who joined AMISOM peacekeepers last month shelled a mosque in Mogadishu last Saturday, Radio Garowe reports.

U.S. Military Envisions More Bases Like Djibouti Facility

U.S. military wants more bases like Djibouti facility.

American Red Cross Teaches Skills to Save a Life in Djibouti

Service members stationed in Djibouti take health and safety courses.

Refugees lend helping hand to quake-hit city

Former refugees have dug in to help Christchurch's eastern suburbs.

Refugees shovelling coal to help Christchurch

Former refugees from the Waikato are heading south to lend a hand.

In Run-Up to Somalia Raid, Secrecy and Business As Usual

President Obama's business-as-usual demeanor as he delivered the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening masked a secret known only to him and a few others in the House chamber. Thousands of miles away, a strike team led by the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 were completing a successful operation to free two Western aid workers, an American and a Dane, held by Somali kidnappers since October. The U.S ...

Ethiopia enters Somalia, but avoids African Union joint operation

Unlike Uganda, Burundi, Kenya and Djibouti, which have sent thousands of troops under the African Union banner, Ethiopia is intervening in Somalia unilaterally, and won't stay for long.

Somaliland to pass central bank law within 3 weeks: cbank

HARGEISA (Reuters) - Somaliland's central bank governor said on Thursday parliament is expected to pass a law within three weeks that will formerly establish a central bank, paving the way for foreign commercial banks to start operating in the self-declared country by 2013. Somaliland, a breakaway state in the northeast of Somalia, remains unrecognised internationally. It has no formal banking ...

US base plays key role in commando rescue

An austere Pentagon outpost in the hardscrabble desert proved ideal as a launching pad for the commando raid that freed two aid workers.