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World
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Africa
11/27/2022 10:14:02 PM
Somali security forces were attempting to flush out armed assailants from a hotel in the Somali capital, a police spokesman said Sunday, after the extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. There has been no immediate word of any casualties.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/22/2022 7:47:43 PM
In conflict-ravaged nations like Yemen and Somalia, devastating floods and droughts kill hundreds of people and uproot tens of thousands from their homes.
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World
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Region
11/6/2022 1:36:59 PM
Five people were killed in a suicide bombing targeting a military training camp in Somalia, army officials told AFP Sunday, in an attack claimed by Al-Shabaab jihadists one week after twin blasts left 116 dead.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/4/2022 1:04:38 PM
Russia and Turkey have reached an agreement to deliver grain free of charge to countries in need including Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
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World
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Africa
11/1/2022 10:44:37 PM
The Treasury Department announced sanctions Tuesday against a weapons trafficking network affiliated with the Islamic State group in Somalia and the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which are accused of carrying out deadly terrorist acts on civilians including car bombings.
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World
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Africa
10/31/2022 5:01:40 PM
The death toll from twin car bombings in Somalia's capital has reached 120 and could rise further because some people are still missing, the country's health minister said Monday.
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World
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Africa
10/30/2022 11:11:17 AM
The number of people killed in twin car bombings in the Somali capital Mogadishu, claimed by Al-Shabaab Islamists, has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
10/29/2022 7:31:31 PM
At least nine people, including children, died on Saturday in twin car bomb attacks targeting Somalia's education ministry in the capital Mogadishu, security officers and witnesses said.
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World
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Region
10/29/2022 3:39:46 PM
Two huge car bombings rocked Somalia's education ministry in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday causing casualties and shattering windows of nearby buildings, police and witnesses said.
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World
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Africa
10/26/2022 5:16:10 PM
The United Nations says close to 1 million drought-affected people in Somalia are in areas under the control or influence of the al-Shabab extremist group, and it appealed to the fighters to allow humanitarian access as famine threatens the country.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/25/2022 1:57:09 PM
Egypt has condemned a terrorist attack that targetted a hotel in the Somali port city of Kismayo, about 500 kilometres southwest of the capital of Mogadishu, that killed nine people and wounded 47 others on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
10/23/2022 6:52:09 PM
At least four people have been killed in an attack on a hotel in Kismayo, southern Somalia, claimed by Al-Shabaab Islamists, police and a witness said on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
10/23/2022 5:19:26 PM
Gunmen stormed a hotel in the centre of the Somali port city of Kismayo Sunday, shortly after an explosives-packed car exploded at the hotel's gates, police said.
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World
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Africa
10/12/2022 7:54:44 PM
The Somali National Army (SNA) said Wednesday its forces killed over 50 al-Shabab militants in a foiled terror attack on its base at a village in Hiran region of central Somalia.
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World
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Africa
10/11/2022 9:48:51 PM
In response to external, and at times internal, pressure, Al-Shabaab’s insurgency in Somalia has evolved over time. So have its motivations and goals.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/5/2022 3:14:51 PM
A man in a donkey cart comes wheeling through the dust, carrying two small, silent boys. The sky is overcast. It could rain. It won't. It hasn't for a very long time.
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World
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Africa
10/5/2022 12:01:13 PM
Within weeks, a famine could be declared in Somalia, affecting more than 850,000 people in two of the country's worst drought-affected areas plus thousands of people in displacement camps.
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World
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Africa
10/3/2022 3:18:11 PM
Nine people, including senior regional officials, were killed in twin car bomb attacks claimed by the Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Beledweyne in central Somalia on Monday, police said.
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Egypt
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Defence
9/26/2022 9:00:00 AM
Egypt sent to Somalia on Sunday two military transport planes carrying medical aid and evacuated wounded Somali army recruits for treatment in Egyptian Armed Forces hospitals.
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World
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Africa
9/25/2022 2:03:51 PM
A suicide attack claimed by the Somali Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab killed at least seven people and injured nine others in Mogadishu on Sunday, the army and eyewitnesses told AFP.
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