Blog posts tagged "Somalia"

April 11, 2012 6:19 pm No Comments

Jamal Osman describes the difficulties facing sporting officials and Olympic hopefuls in a country where athletes could be shot at any time by rebels or security forces.

March 28, 2012 4:17 pm 1 Comment

The latest arrest in Somalia of a British man alleged to be a member of al-Shabaab is an unusual case, writes reporter Jamal Osman.

October 21, 2011 3:25 pm 1 Comment

The death of one of the world's worst tyrants on Thursday made it impossible for me to report that we are now three months on since the UN declared a famine in southern Somalia, writes Jonathan Rugman.

October 13, 2011 4:55 pm No Comments

Somali human rights worker Fartun Adan says "the world needs to wake up" to the increasing danger for women in her homeland.

September 12, 2011 3:55 pm 1 Comment

Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman blogs on the killing of David Tebbutt and the kidnapping of his wife Judith in Kenya

July 28, 2011 6:26 pm 5 Comments

Jonathan Rugman blogs from Somalia on the heart-turning decisions some families are having to make as famine threatens the lives of millions of people in east Africa.

July 21, 2011 7:44 am 4 Comments

Jonathan Rugman blogs on the appalling famine in Somalia - and what the world can do to help.

July 6, 2011 5:54 pm 1 Comment

Is America denying food aid to starving Somalis as part of a strategy to beat the al-Shabaab militants of the Horn of Africa? Jonathan Rugman reports on the agonised food politics of Somalia.

4:09 pm No Comments

The case is intriguing, partly because it provides some of the first indications that extremists in Somalia and Yemen may be linking up; and partly because Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame's arrival for trial in New York around midnight on July 4th reignites the debate about the legal justification for flying military detainees into US jurisdiction from overseas.

May 26, 2010 6:05 pm 17 Comments

After the interview, I thought what it must be like for the poor Chandlers, surrounded by men armed with heavy machine guns who have no value for human life, writes Jamal Osman. For them, killing is part of everyday life.