THE African Union’s peacekeeping force in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab jihadists are waging an insurgency, said Friday the second phase of…
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EGYPTIAN President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said a deal granting Ethiopia maritime access through Somaliland “is acceptable to no-one”. Speaking…
SOMALIA has joined the East African Community (EAC) in a move intended to boost economic growth in the country following…
A UGANDAN military court has found two officers guilty of cowardice as Islamist fighters stormed an African Union base in…
THOUSANDS of people are trapped in flooded areas following heavy rains in Somalia’s Jubbaland state, the UN’s humanitarian agency says.…
EMERGENCY workers in central Somalia dug through rubble to recover more bodies Sunday after a truck bombing killed over a…
A SUICIDE bomber on Monday struck a military training camp in the Somalian capital Mogadishu, killing at least 20 soldiers,…
THE militant al-Shabab group on Friday morning carried out an attack on a Ugandan troops’ base of the African Union…
SIX women and five men from Ethiopia are known to have died in a road accident in Somalia, the International…
SOMALIA has reopened its embassy in the UK after 32 years, in a ceremony attended by ambassador Abdulkadir Ahmed Kheyr,…
AUTHORITIES in Ethiopia’s Somali region have banned 15 media practitioners working for foreign organisations – including the BBC’s and the…
US forces have killed an Islamic State leader, Bilal al-Sudani, and 10 of his operatives in northern Somalia, American officials…
A US air strike assisting government troops in Somalia has killed about 30 Islamist al-Shabab militants, the US military says.…
SOMALIA’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has said the government will soon launch the second phase of an offensive against al-Qaeda-allied…
A FAMILY of nine have died in a double car bombing in central Hiraan province, Somalia, an eyewitness has told…