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The al Shabaab-claimed attack killed nine people and wounded ten others. Three attackers were also killed by security forces. At least nine people were killed in an attack on Somalia's interior »

Prison officials and security forces have arbitrarily detained and tortured prisoners for years in the notorious regional prison known as Jail Ogaden, Human Rights Watch said in a report released »

Supporters of Halima Aden say they could not be happier to see the Somali-American continuing to break new ground as the first model to wear a hijab on runways and in magazines. Twenty-year-old »

At least 15 people were killed in central Somalia when villagers clashed with Al-Shabab militants trying to recruit their children as fighters. According to local sources, 10 militants and five »

The IFJ backed calls by its affiliate NUSOJ for the authorities in Somaliland to stop the persecution of independent journalists following the arrest of TV reporter in Borame (Somaliland), on Tuesday, »

Ten Somali students were arrested inTurkey’s southern Mersin province over alleged links to the Fethullahist Terror Organisation (FETO), the group suspected to be behind the coup attempt in 2016, »

Somali Independence Day Festival begins June 30 and lasts an entire week. That week is filled with music, games, entertainment, and of course, plenty of delicious food. This year celebrates Somalia’s »

The Prime Minister of Somalia Hassan Ali Kheyre on a two-day official visit to Rwanda , on Tuesday toured the Kigali Genocide Memorial.The Genocide Memorial is the final resting place for more than »

The "Somalis + Minnesota" exhibit offers personal perspectives of the Somali experience within Minnesota and features traditional culture and artifacts. An exhibit featuring profiles of notable »

For years, people living in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu wanting to watch the World Cup on television have done so at great risk. The Islamist militant group al-Shabab threatened violence against »

ADDIS ABABA - Thirty people have now been arrested over alleged involvement in a grenade attack that killed two people at a rally in the Ethiopian capital attended by new prime minister Abiy Ahmed, »

Police have released photographs of 15 youths that authorities say were lured into joining terror groups. Police also rubbished reports of State-sanctioned enforced disappearances. The development »

State Rep. Ilhan Omar won the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement Sunday for a seat in Congress to represent the west metro. If elected, she would become the first Somali-American member of »

The new Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, has arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu amid tight security. Ahmed was received at the airport by Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi »

Meet two farmers and two female entrepreneurs, who—supported by the Somalia Emergency Drought Response and Recovery Project (SEDRP)—share their experiences of grit, hope, and resilience despite years »

Farmers in Mandera are counting losses for the third time this year after their lands were submerged when River Dawa burst its banks. In Mandera East Sub-County, Mr Ali Hassan Hamo, who grows »

The man who killed two worshipers inside the Malmesbury mosque before he was shot dead by police is understood to have been treated for bipolar disorder previously and had no history of violence, said »

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council warned Thursday that "internal and external pressures risk undermining Somalia's political unity" and expressed serious concern at the ongoing threats posed »

Five Kenyan paramilitary police officers were killed and three others were seriously injured when their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) near the Kenya-Somalia border early »

The Pentagon has told Congress that the US military killed almost 500 civilians and injured a further 169 in 2017. The civilians were killed in operations around the world, from Somalia to Yemen to »

The U.S. military says it has carried out an airstrike outside Somalia's capital that killed 12 al-Shabab extremists. The U.S. Africa Command has carried out at least 15 such airstrikes this year »

President Uhuru Kenyatta Wednesday held talks with President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo of Somalia who is on an official visit in the country. The two leaders discussed bilateral issues and security »

The Somali government on Wednesday evacuated 151 migrants from Libya who had been held in areas controlled by militia. The latest evacuation brings to 176 the number of Somalis who have been »

The chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, expressed concern on Sunday over increasing instances of external interference by non-African actors in Somalia's internal »

A powerful tropical cyclone which formed in the Gulf of Aden has caused heavy rains in northern Somalia in the past two days, destroying houses and leaving about 2,000 livestock dead, the UN said on »

Save the Children has donated two boat ambulances to the Ministry of Health in Puntland to support the ministry’s efforts in increasing access to health facilities for communities in coastal towns of »

A string of recent prosecutions in Somaliland targeting people who spoke out on controversial issues is a dangerous attack of free expression, Human Rights Watch said today. In the latest such case, a »

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A battle for access to seaports is underway in one of the world’s unlikeliest places: Somalia, now caught up in a regional struggle between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab »

[Abdi Guled | AP MOGADISHU] — Gunmen shot dead a female aid worker in Somalia’s capital on Tuesday, police said, in the latest of several targeted attacks against humanitarians in the long-chaotic »