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An Indian Navy ship has seized arms and ammunition off the Somali coast, in a swift anti-piracy operation, officials said Monday. The ship, Sunayna, carried out the operation on Friday in which two »

Powerful blasts followed by heavy gunfire send plumes of smoke billowing into the air in Somali capital. At least 10 people have been killed in explosions followed by heavy gunfire in Somalia's »

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday that 124 illegal Somali immigrants were voluntarily repatriated from Libya's capital Tripoli. The repatriation took place as »

US voters elected two Muslim women, both Democrats, to Congress on Tuesday, marking a historic first in a country where anti-Muslim rhetoric has been on the rise, American networks reported. Ilhan »

Eritrea is hoping that the UN Security Council will soon lift sanctions it imposed on the East African nation in 2009, now that its relations have thawed with Ethiopia and other neighbouring »

Authorities in Somalia are investigating the deaths of four civilians reportedly killed by African Union troops Tuesday, after a roadside bomb targeted the peacekeepers' convoy. The bombing »

The UN Migration Agency has begun providing life-saving health care to two Somali towns previously inaccessible because of war and conflict. Tens of thousands of people in the towns of Gobweyn and »

On Thursday, Puntland election front-runner Mohamoud Khalif Hassan who is the heavy favourite to win Puntland's presidential election kicked off his campaign in Garowe, the capital of the autonomous »

Attorneys representing a Kansas man convicted of a 2016 plot to massacre Somali Muslim refugees by bombing a mosque and apartment complex in Garden City, Kan., have asked a federal judge to consider a »

[EA] The figure is about 24 per cent rise from last year's $274.6 million budget. Finance minister Abdurahman Duale Bayle Monday stated that the ministerial council chaired by Prime Minister »

Qatar has stressed that it will continue to be a key supporter of Somalia and will spare no effort in providing the necessary assistance to the country, noting that it has provided aid to the Somali »

Somaliland’s offer is a bold challenge to Djibouti, a tiny former French colony that’s benefited from its location on a global shipping choke-point to host the U.S. and China’s only official permanent »

[TheStar] Terror group al Shabaab is a constant and present danger to the socioeconomic livelihood of Kenyans due to its frequent attacks in remote areas near Somalia. While it appears al Shabaab’s »

[EA] Police in Somalia are hunting for the gunmen who shot dead a local journalist, Mr Abdullahi Mohamed Hashi, on the outskirts of Mogadishu late on Saturday. Mr Hashi was working for a local »

The African Union force in Somalia says it has killed a "chief finance controller" for the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab extremist group. The AU force in a series of tweets on Thursday says the »

Ethiopia signed a peace deal on Sunday with Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebels from its Somali Region, whom it had previously outlawed as a “terrorist group,” officials said. The ONLF »

The U.S. military says it has conducted an airstrike that killed four al-Shabab extremists after “partner forces came under small arms fire.” The U.S. Africa Command says Sunday’s airstrike was »

Britain has cautioned against premature withdrawal of African Union troops from Somalia, saying such a move could be detrimental to the stability of the Horn of African nation. Harriett Baldwin, »

In 1969, just nine years after the establishment of the Somalia Republic, a bloodless coup took place following the assassination of President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke. The coup was led by Siad »

Roving militias killing civilians. Prisoners stripped naked and rolled in hot ashes. "Mafia"-style murders and violence that forced more than a million people from their homes. That's the legacy »

Is there a campaign to remove Somali Muslims from eastern Ethiopia, by any means necessary? “There’s a genocide taking place here against Somali Muslims in north eastern Ethiopia,” reads a »

There’s no doubt that Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed’s first five months in office have brought enormous change to the country. He’s also been hailed for shepherding Ethiopia to a historic peace »

Yesterday, US Forces killed nine Shabaab terrorists in a strike 40 km northeast of Kismayo after the al Qaeda branch attacked Somali forces operating in the area. The strike took place near the town »

New York, (IBNS): Even though Somalia has made “huge strides” in political and economic transformation, the country continues to grapple with terrorism, the nation’s Foreign Minister told world »

Minister for Africa Harriett Baldwin co-hosted the meeting at the UN General Assembly in New York, with Foreign Minister Ahmed Isse Awad of Somalia, State Minister Hirut Zemene of Ethiopia and Enzo »

President of the University of Jigjiga, Abdulaziz Ibrahim who sparked a storm of controversy by firing more than thirty staff a year ago has himself been let go. State Minister of the Ethiopian »

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Somali Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Isse Awad have discussed the prospects of building up political and trade cooperation Russian Foreign »

Somalia's Puntland State military court on Wednesday sentenced three militants to death while three others were handed life term jail after finding them guilty, officials said. Awil Ahmed Farah, »

[VOA] Somalia's finance minister says World Bank grants to the government are a sign the country has "trustable leadership" again after decades of chaos and corruption. The World Bank said Tuesday »

[Africanews] Somalia president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo was in attendance on Monday evening when residents of the capital gathered to watch a football game in the capital, »