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Shahada News Agency (Arabic: وكالة شهادة الإخبارية, romanized: Wakālat shahādat al-ikhbārīyah, Somali: Wakaalada Wararka ee Shahada) is an news agency of the militant organization, Al-Shabaab, and is used as the main disseminator for news in Arabic as well as English translations relating to attacks done by al-Shabaab and other operations including executions.
At least five people have died in the attack on a Mogadishu hotel by Somalia's al-Shabab rebels that was ended early Monday by security forces, according to the Somali police force. The siege of ...
Its first English language production was released in July 2010 titled "Mogadishu: The Crusaders Graveyard". It shows Al-Shabaab fighters in combat against Ugandan and Burundian AMISOM soldiers. It is narrated in English by a British foreign fighter named "Abu Umar" who is believed to be a senior media officer in Al-Kataib. [10]
Jama'atu al-I'tisam bil-Kitab wa’l-Sunnah (Somali: Jamaacada Al-Ictisaam Bil Kitaabi Wassunnah, Arabic: جماعة الاعتصام بالكتاب والسنة), more commonly known as Jama'at Al-I'tisam (Somali: Jamaacada Al-Ictisaam, Arabic: جماعة الاعتصام) is a Somali Islamic Salafi organization and missionary group founded in 1996.
6 February — 2024 Mogadishu market bombing - Ten people are killed and 20 others are injured following explosions in the Bakaara Market, Mogadishu believed to be perpetrated by Al-Shabab, who reportedly planted explosive devices underground.
News agencies were created to provide newspapers with information about a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to newspapers, but with the passage of time the rapidly developing modern mediums such as radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.
On the morning of October 7, an unknown number of al-Shabaab militants stormed a Somali Army base in Bal'ad. [5] Abdikamil Maalim Shukri, a spokesman in the Somali Ministry of Internal Security, claimed that the soldiers at the base in the suburb of Muryale near Bal'ad knew about the attack before it happened, and were able to be on patrol and defend the base effectively. [6]
Efforts to form a union of Arab national news agencies started on October 28, 1964, in Cairo, Egypt, and resulted in a conference in Amman, Jordan, in 1965. [2] [4] In January 1974, the League of Arab States ("Arab League") called for a second conference, held in Baghdad, Iraq, in April 1974.