Tag: Somalia

The ravaging drought in Somalia, the worst in four decades, is expected to worsen following the fifth failed rainy season. ...

At least four people were killed in an ongoing attack by Al-Shabaab militants who laid siege to a popular hotel ...

Conflict and insecurity are prevalent in northern Kenya. In recent weeks, cases of bandit attacks in the region have left ...

The number of people killed in twin car bombings in the Somali capital Mogadishu, claimed by Al-Shabaab Islamists, has risen ...

Nine people were killed and forty-seven wounded Sunday in an attack on a hotel in Kismayo, southern Somalia, claimed by ...

Somalia faces famine on a scale last seen half a century ago, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Tuesday ...

The Somali government announced on Monday a top Al-Shabaab militant, who had a $3.0-million US bounty on his head, had ...

As flies buzz over his tiny body, two-year-old Sadak Ibrahim barely whimpers, too weak to cry or shoo them away ...

The International Organization of Immigrants (IOM) is asking for humanitarian help as the situation deteriorates in Somalia. According to the ...

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud urged citizens to stay away from areas controlled by Al-Shabaab jihadists as he vowed to ...

A violent Islamist insurgency, looming famine, political chaos, and a threadbare economy in tatters -- these major crises and more ...

Somalia's new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who was elected after a marathon vote by lawmakers on Sunday, is a former ...

Somalia's international partners on Monday welcomed the election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who takes office after months of political ...

Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, ...

The UN Security Council on Thursday voted unanimously for a new African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab insurgents ...

The death toll from twin attacks in central Somalia has climbed to 48, the leader of Hirshabelle state said Thursday, ...

Somalia has again pushed back the deadline for completing lower house elections, delaying until March 31 a process that is ...

Somalia failed to conclude elections for the lower house of parliament by a deadline Tuesday, marking the latest hitch in ...

The Security Council quietly let a deadline pass for it to renew UN authorization to fight piracy in waters off ...

Somalia on Friday extended its deadline to finish voting for the lower house of parliament, the latest in a series ...

Under the blazing sun, Salado Adan Mohamed puts the finishing touches to her makeshift shelter, cobbled together from branches and ...

The International Monetary Fund could stop its program in Somalia in three months if long-postponed national elections encounter fresh delays, ...

Al-Shabaab militants launched simultaneous attacks on police stations around Somalia's capital Mogadishu overnight, killing two girls and wounding over a ...

At least six people were killed in the Somali capital Thursday in a suicide bombing claimed by jihadists at a ...