somalia

At least 214,000 people have been temporarily displaced from their homes across Somalia since October due to flooding caused by heavy rains, the UN agency said on Monday. SEE ALSO: 3.4 m people need nutrition support in North-East—UN The…

Authorities accused them of bankrolling al-shabab responsible for several deadly attacks which has killed scores of people inside Kenya.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has honoured 600 Ugandan troops guarding UN facilities and personnel in volatile Somalia, a Ugandan official said on Monday. SEE ALSO: UNGA: Ambassador Submits Proposal To Hold 2020 High-Level Week…

Explosions rocked the two largest cities of Somalia on Saturday as officials said a suicide car bomber detonated near the port in Mogadishu and a landmine in a restaurant on the outskirts of Baidoa killed four people. Al-Shabab, which is…

President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, on Saturday, closed the country’s borders with Somalia and Tanzania effective midnight as part of measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease. SEE ALSO: Football Legend Mohamed Farah Dies…

More than 2,000 cholera cases were reported in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia during the first two months of 2020, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has said.“So far in 2020, there have been more…

The UN senior envoy in Somalia on Monday called on the government to strengthen the fight against corruption which is an obstacle to development and public trust.James Swan, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for…

At least 17 people were killed and 28 others wounded when a bomb went off outside a hotel near the international airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday, medical officials said.The Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al Shabaab,…

Eighteen people were killed when Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab attacked an army base in southern Somalia, a local official said on Monday.“Among the dead were 14 militants and four soldiers, who had been manning the army base in…

Suspected militants armed with AK47 rifles killed at least 10 persons in an attack outside Mogadishu on Monday, officials said. While no one has yet taken responsibility for the attack about 17 kilometres from the capital, Somali security…

Gunmen shot dead the head of Dubai government-owned P&O Ports’ operations in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland on Monday, a local government official said.Islamist militant group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the…

A car bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Somalia’s capital on Monday, killing two people and injuring four others in an attack probably by Islamist group al Shabaab, police said.They said the blast occurred in Mogadishu’s Hamarweyne…

The U.S. has renewed a “permanent diplomatic presence” in Somalia, the State Department said, 28 years after the U.S. embassy was closed as a civil war raged in the country.Somalia has been trying to recover from the conflict that…

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said on Friday that it was spearheading an ambitious Police recruitment drive in Somalia’s HirShabelle State to help stabilise the Country.The AU mission said the first phase of recruitment…

A suicide car bomb rammed into a local government office in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday causing casualties, a police officer told Reuters.A Reuters witness saw huge clouds of smoke above the city following a loud blast and…

Authorities on Sunday said six people were killed when a suicide car bomb struck a local government office in central Mogadishu on Sunday, destroying the building and a Quranic school opposite.Islamist militant group Al Shabaab said it…

Shukri Abdullahi, a 30-year-old woman in Somalia was stoned to death on Wednesday by Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgents for having 11 husbands, residents of a town in the south of the country said.Citizens of Sablale town in Lower Shabelle…

Somalia has released without charge a former minister and fierce critic of the government who spent two days in jail after being arrested for alleged treason, a lawmaker told Reuters on Thursday.The arrest of Abdirahman Abdishakur, who…

The UN and African Union (AU) envoys in Somalia on Friday began security assessment visits across the Horn of Africa nation ahead of the troops exit in 2018.The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission…

The UN and the U.S. have strongly condemned the Saturday bomb attacks in Mogadishu which is described as Somalia’s worst-ever bomb attack.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged all Somalis “to unite in the fight against terrorism…

Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland seized a boat loaded with weapons On Saturday, the regional maritime police chief said.Puntland authorities displayed dozens of anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, AK-47 rifles and dozens of…