Tag: Somalia

Members of Parliament (MPs) from Northeastern region Kenya have raised concerns after Somaliland, a region in Somalia signed a memorandum ...

Kenya's national carrier, Kenya Airways has announced the resumption of flights to Mogadishu starting February 14, 2024. The flights, according ...

Flood waters swept through a cemetery in the central city of Galkayo in Somalia leaving dead bodies floating in the ...

President William Ruto on Friday, July 29 pledged Kenya's commitment to working with the US Government to strengthen its laws ...

Kenya has now re-opened its border with Somalia. In a statement, Kenya's Interior CS Kithure Kindiki said that the Mandera/Belet Hawo ...

Most folks grow up with certain hard-wired assumptions about the state. Omnipotent. Omnipresent. All-knowing. Cruel. Impenetrable. Permanent. The state is ...

For decades, African states have grappled with numerous interstate border disputes, especially in resource-rich regions. In east Africa, most of ...

A Somali court on Monday sentenced a freelance journalist to two months in jail on security-related charges, a press association ...

Kenya plans to intensify the vetting of refugees to support regional efforts to destroy Somali-based terror group Al-Shabaab. The Ministry ...

President William Ruto has called for concerted and collective efforts towards the war against terror networks in the Horn of ...

The leaders of Somalia and neighboring countries vowed at a summit on Wednesday to "make the final push" against Al-Shabaab ...

Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is hosting regional leaders in Mogadishu to discuss his country's security situation. Leaders from Kenya, ...

Al-Shabaab stormed a military base north of the Somali capital on Tuesday in a deadly attack launched after the government ...

The United States announced Thursday it was offering a reward of up to $10 million for a man described as ...

Government forces in the self-declared Somaliland republic have withdrawn from a contested town near the border of Somalia after days ...

Nineteen people have been killed in twin car bombings in central Somalia claimed by Al-Shabaab, a local militia commander in ...

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, ...