(Reuters) – An Islamist group in Somalia has issued a video of a French hostage held in the Horn of Africa country, showing him asking France to meet his captors’ demands. The video appeared on a website often used by Islamist militant groups around the world, which said the hostage, named as Denis Allex, had issued a “message to the French people”. A copy of the video issued... 

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(Reuters) – A former Somali prime minister is not protected by sovereign immunity from a lawsuit in the United States for alleged torture and human rights abuses, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. In a unanimous decision, the high court handed a defeat to Mohamed Ali Samantar, who served as Somalia’s defense minister in the 1980s and then as prime minister from 1987 to 1990. Justice... 

The captain of the container ship Maersk Alabama ignored explicit warnings to stay well off the coast of Somalia before his capture by pirates in 2009, according to 16 of its 19 crew members. “It’s almost like he wanted to be captured,” the ship’s chief engineer, Mike Perry, told CNN in an interview to air on tonight’s “AC360.” Capt. Richard Phillips spent four days as a... 

Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliya Mudane Sheekh Shariif Sheekh Axmed iyo wafdi uu hoggaaminayo ayaa galabta ka duulay garoonka caalamiga ah ee Aadan Cabdulle Cismaan isaga oo ku sii jeeda dalalka France iyo Germany. Madaxweynaha France Nicolas Sarkozy ayaa ku casuumey Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya kulanka sanadeedka France iyo madaxda Africa (Africa France Summit), kulankaas oo ka dhici doona May 31... 

ITN exclusive: British yachting couple Paul and Rachel Chandler, kidnapped by Somali pirates seven months ago, describe the “mental torture” of almost 100 days in solitary confinement. The Chandlers have been kept separate by their kidnappers for nearly half of their seven months in captivity – allowed only the occasional short phone call as a point of contact. The couple, from Tunbridge... 

(Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab rebels said on Monday their next target, after capturing the north of the capital, is to seize the presidential palace. The U.N.-backed administration of President Sheikh Ahmed Sharif had hoped to drive the rebels out of the capital through a major offensive that has been on the cards since last year, but the insurgents have attacked, pressing government...