On Saturday 25th October, 2008, the Somali Voice, in partnership with Bristol Somali Media Group (BSMG), presents an event for Somali communities to promote awareness of gang and knife issues amongst Somali parents and adults.

NAIROBI – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is to begin delivering emergency supplies of a highly nutritious, peanut-based food to Somalia in a bid to combat the growing threat of severe malnutrition amongst children in the war-ravaged nation.

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A Somali official says gunmen have freed a hijacked Indian vessel and its 13 crew members on Tuesday after a battle with pirates off the African country's northern coast.

As the world prepares for the election and inauguration of a new American administration, policymakers in Japan are thinking about ways their country can extend and reinforce the Japan-US strategic relationship.

CAIRO (AFP) — Somali pirates have released an Egyptian ship with 25 crew on board which was hijacked earlier this month off Somalia's Puntland region, the official MENA news agency reported on Saturday.

Ethiopian soldiers have killed nearly 100 people in different parts of Somalia, mostly civilians, including women and children, a report says.

OTTAWA (AFP) — A Canadian navy frigate is being deployed to the coast of Somalia to escort World Food Programme ships carrying humanitarian aid to the region beset by pirates, Canada's government said Wednesday.

BOSASSO, Somalia, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Somali pirates are investing heavily in trafficking the narcotic khat, along with other businesses, as they seek to spend big profits from ransom payments after months of attacks.

Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) -- At least 16 Somali civilians died after fighting yesterday between Ethiopian and Somali government soldiers and Islamist insurgents in northern districts of the capital, Mogadishu, according to eyewitnesses and radio reports.

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Tullow Oil Plc's oil and gas production for the first quarter of 2008 has been in line with expectations and the business has benefited from increasing oil and gas prices, it said in its interim management statement.

"So what were you doing then?" I am asked at dinner parties these days as the nation looks back in awe at 1968. "I wasn't here, I was in Kampala," I reply, and the conversation falls off the edge of the table, impossible to retrieve, like a napkin that slips off the lap and disappears.