Arabic News Weekly Edition for Somalia, 9/27/1999
Weekly Edition, Somalia - Week of September 27, 1999
- Islamic Sharia prescribed in Somalia
"Sheikhs" from the Islamic sects in Mogadishu announced on Thursday that they had prescribed Islamic Sharia in certain Somali districts in order to withstand the increasing wave of crimes and tribal conflicts. Somalia, Politics, 10/1/1999 - UN resumes aid operations in Somalia Somalia, Politics, 9/29/1999
- Italian businessman kidnapped in Mogadishu
The Somali paper Ayamaha issued in Mogadishu on Monday said that an Italian businessman was kidnapped in southern Mogadishu by a group of traders led by a former Somali minister of finance. Somalia, Politics, 9/28/1999