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[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 »

[TG] A potentially lethal epidemic of cholera and other disease is set to sweep parts of Somalia and Kenya after severe flooding left hundreds of thousands homeless in the two countries, aid workers »

Somali lawmakers on Monday elected Mohamed Mursal Sheikh Abdirahman the new speaker of parliament in the capital Mogadishu. Mursal won in the second round of voting with 147 votes, beating his »

The peacekeepers serving with the African Union Missions in Somalia (Amisom) have joined the efforts to assist victims of massive flooding in the country. The Djibouti and Ethiopian peacekeepers »

At least five people, including a colonel, were killed Saturday when a suicide attacker blew himself up near a military camp in the city of Galkayo in the north-central Mudug region of Somalia, »

Puntland President Abdiwele Mohamed Ali says autonomous region is counting on Bosaso port development The UAE's engagement with Puntland is crucial to development and security in the »

[NV] A contingent of 145 police officers from Sierra Leone arrived in Somalia last week as part of a surge capacity that will implement policing programmes in south central Somalia. All the 145 »

Rival forces in the Somali army shot at each other in the capital Mogadishu on Monday, with one group trying to storm a former United Arab Emirates-run training centre, soldiers and residents »

A jury in Kansas this week is deliberating whether three militia members should spend the rest of their lives in prison. LIBERAL, Kan. — Kay Burtzloff, a 61-year-old small-business owner who’s »

Somalia on Monday hinted it could release the 9.6 million U.S. dollars seized from a plane chartered by United Arab Emirates (UAE) diplomats to transport the cash to Mogadishu, a move that can defuse »

Tensions between the countries spiked when the UAE said Somali soldiers boarded an Emirati plane in Mogadishu, assaulted its soldiers at gunpoint and confiscated 9.6 million US dollars. The United »

A court in the self-declared republic of Somaliland has sentenced a young poet to three years in jail. Nacima Qorane was found guilty of bringing the state into contempt by advocating for »

[AJ] Somalia has disbanded a United Arab Emirates programme to train some of its troops in a new sign of rising tensions in bilateral relations. The Somali government announced on Wednesday that it »

ABU DHABI,(WAM) -- The UAE has condemned the seizure of its civilian aircraft carrying millions of dollars by authorities in Somalia on Sunday. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and »

The speaker of Somalia’s parliament, Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari, has resigned ahead of a confidence motion against him, a lawmaker said, ending weeks of political tension. “We were in the »

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack of 1 April 2018 perpetrated by Al-Shabaab against the Ugandan contingent of the African Union Mission in »

Islamist insurgents battled for hours on Sunday with African Union troops after exploding two car bombs outside one of their bases, Somali police, military and the militants said. Al Shabaab »

The World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released today a new joint report titled, Rebuilding Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Somalia, outlining the challenges and »

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan and Somalia on Thursday agreed to enhance mutual cooperation and boost bilateral relations. The understanding was reached in a meeting between the National »

Media reports had said Djibouti wants to buy the 33 per cent stake DP world, the world’s fourth-largest port operator, has denied media reports that it had received an offer from Djibouti to »

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday that it is deeply troubled by death of its staff who succumbed to injuries after a bomb attached to their vehicle exploded in »

Ethiopian security forces have re-arrested a number of recently freed politicians and journalists as they gathered for a social event outside the capital, Addis Ababa, with family and friends, a »

Forty-two members of the Somali HirShabelle regional assembly, who are leaders of the assembly’s various oversight and legislative committees, are meeting in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, to enhance their »

A suicide car bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint near Somalia’s parliament and interior ministry in the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, and the city’s ambulance service said three people had been »

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Saturday wrapped up gender awareness training for about 98 Somali police officers in four regional states in Somalia to help broaden their knowledge on »

The Acacia bussei, a slow-growing hardwood, has long been the backbone of Somalia’s multimillion-dollar trade in charcoal. For decades, the country struggled to implement a 1969 ban on charcoal and »

At least six al-Shabab fighters were killed and several others injured in heavy fighting with the Somali National Army in southern Somalia, officials said Tuesday. Somali Army official Abdirahman »

Somali security forces executed today a raid against the Al Shabab organization in this capital, following the most recent attacks by the armed group, press reports stressed. According to Radio »

A motorist deliberately drove into a Somali woman twice in an anti-Muslim attack days after a bomb blast in London, a court heard. Zaynab Hussein was hit by Paul Moore's car in Leicester, moments »