Somalia’s lawmakers elected a new parliamentary speaker on Thursday following a tense standoff between African Union peacekeepers and police. The election underscores the bitter divisions... Read More
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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... Read More
Authorities accused them of bankrolling al-shabab responsible for several deadly attacks which has killed scores of people inside Kenya. ... Read More
600 Ugandan Troops Guarding UN Facilities, Personnel In Somalia Honoured By UN
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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:... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read 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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
A car bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Somalia’s capital on Monday, killing 11 people and wounding 10 in an attack that police said... Read More
Gunmen kill head of Dubai-owned P&O Ports’ operation in Somalia’s Puntland
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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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
The death toll has risen to 20 people on Sunday following two suspected suicide bombers that struck in the southern Somali city of Baidoa on... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
How Crisis In Libya, Somalia Is Causing Chaos In Nigeria – APC Senator
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The senator representing Kaduna Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Sen. Shehu Sani, may have given rare insight into the major cause of incessant... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
UN, U.S. Condemn Saturday’s Bomb Attacks In Mogadishu, Call It Worst Attack In History
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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... Read More
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... Read More
AU trains 1,000 newly-recruited police to enhance security in Somalia
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African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said on Friday it would launch a new phase of training for 1,000 newly recruited police officers to... Read More
An estimated number of people who have been displaced by the severe drought ravaging several parts of Somalia has risen to more than 761,000 since... Read More
UN says aid worker kidnaps, roadblocks soar in famine-threatened Somalia
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The UN says kidnapping of aid workers and extortion at checkpoints are on the rise in Somalia and it is hindering efforts to prevent the... Read More
China granted the World Food Programme (WFP) 10 million dollars on Wednesday to bolster its humanitarian work in drought-stricken Somalia where more than six million... Read More
Somalia executes 4 it says were al Shabaab fighters behind 2016 attack
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A military court in Somalia has executed four men it said were fighters belonging to al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, behind a 2016 attack that killed... Read More
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