A group of influential Somali Islamic clerics has rejected Osama bin Laden's call to Somalis to overthrow the country's new president, the group's leader said on Friday. Bin Laden issued a statement Thursday that outlined al-Qaida's ambitions in Somalia, which the United ...

Osama bin Laden urged Somalis on Thursday to overthrow their new president, issuing a statement that clearly outlines al-Qaida's ambitions in a nation long feared to be a haven for the terrorist network. Bin Laden's 11 1/2-minute audiotape was entirely focused on Somalia ...

Moderate Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed announced Monday he was running for the country's presidency, left vacant after Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed resigned last month. "I will do all that I can to serve honestly if elected president," Ahmed told AFP by phone from Djibouti. Ahmed is the leader of the Islamist-dominated Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia ...

Somali politicians gathered on Sunday for a meeting that will create an expanded parliament to include moderate Islamists and pave the way for electing a new president after a drawn-out power struggle. More than 1,000 Somalis arrived for the talks being held in neighbouring Djibouti due to the continuing state of insecurity in Somalia, according to participants interviewed by ...