Somalia: Al-Shabab claims ‘scores’ killed in attack on Beachside Restaurant
Heavily armed Islamic fighters attacked a beachfront area popular with Somali locals on Thursday night, killing more than 20 people, reports said. A car rigged […]
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Somalia: Al Shabaab kills 13 in hotel attack
At least a dozen people have been killed on Sunday at a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in an attack by Al-Shabaab Islamic militants. […]
Somalia: Islamic extremist rebels kill president’s nephew
Islamic extremist rebels ambushed and killed two men including the president’s nephew in a drive-by shooting in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, police and the rebels said […]
Somalia: Car bomb attack near presidential palace kills 5
Five people have been killed after a car bomb exploded close to the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday, police said. The blast […]
Al Shabaab seizes towns in Somalia, continues onslaught
The Islamist militant group Al Shabaab took control of a sizeable town in central Somalia on Sunday after African Union forces left the area. It […]
Somalia: Al Shabab militants attack A.U. peacekeepers’ base
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab group rammed a suicide car bomb into an African Union army base in southern Somalia, AMISOM, early Tuesday and stormed inside, an […]
Obama’s talks in Ethiopia focus on security, human rights
After a landmark trip to Kenya, his father’s birthplace, the US President Barack Obama flew to Addis Ababa late on Sunday on the first visit […]
Somalia to resumet livestock exportation to Egypt
An agreement on the resumption of Somalian livestock exports to Egypt has been reached recently between the two governments which also decided to bolster exchanges […]
Somalia: US to return to Somalia after 24year absence
The United States is preparing to return to Somalia as President Obama nominates Katherine Simonds Dhanani as US ambassador to the country. The state department […]