Somalia

Somalia: Woman defies custom by refusing FGM for her daughters

A mother tells how the type of genital mutilation practised in Somalia is full infibulation when the girls are about five to seven years old.

Somalie: La Somalienne lapidée pour adultère avait été violée à 13 ans

Une jeune femme somalienne lapidée par des islamistes qui l'accusaient d'adultère était en réalité une adolescente de 13 ans qui avait semble-t-il été violée, rapporte mardi l'Onu.

Somalia: Stoning to death of a 13-year old girl

13-year-old Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was killed on Monday, 27 October 2008, by a group of 50 men who stoned her to death in a stadium in the southern port of Kismayu, Somalia in front of around 1,000 spectators. She was accused of adultery in breach of Islamic law but, her father and other sources told Amnesty International that she had in fact been raped by three men, and had attempted to report this rape to the al-Shabab militia who control Kismayo, and it was this act that resulted in her being accused of adultery and detained. None of men she accused of rape were arrested.

UPDATE: Somalia: Girl stoned was a child of 13

Contrary to earlier news reports, the girl stoned to death in Somalia this week was 13, not 23, Amnesty International revealed.

Somalia: Woman stoned to death for adultery

Somali Islamists have stoned to death a woman accused of adultery, witnesses said, the first such public killing by the militants for about two years.

Somalia: Somali Women’s Rights Activist Wins Roger Baldwin Award

Somali women’s rights activist Hawa Aden Mohamed has been selected to receive the prestigious 2008 Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award for international human rights defenders, Human Rights First announced today.

Somalia: Somali armed forces ban and burn Muslim women's veils

Somali security forces are seizing and even burning Muslim women's veils to stop Islamist insurgents from disguising themselves for attacks, authorities and witnesses said on Wednesday.

Somalie: Al-Jazeera fermée pour ses positions pro-islamistes

Al-Jazeera cesse ses activités dans Somalie

Somalia: Somali Women Involved in HIV/AIDS Peer-Education Programme

Somali women are taking the initiative in the fight against AIDS with a programme to educate their peers in this conservative Muslim nation.

Somalia: Children, women most affected by fighting

Scores of women and children have been separated from their families or wounded in fighting between Somali government forces and remnants of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), sources said.