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Islamist militants rammed a car bomb into the gate of a hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Wednesday and stormed inside, killing at least 15 people, government officials said. Gunfire rang out as fighters entered »

A Somali police officer says gunmen have fought their way into a hotel in the Somali capital after a suicide car bombing at its gates. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said Wednesday that dozens of people, including lawmakers, »

At least five people including three soldiers were killed Monday in heavy fighting between the Somali army and heavily armed militia belonging to al-Shabaab, officials said, APA reports quoting Anadolu Agency. »

A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a security checkpoint near Mogadishu's international airport, killing at least three people. Capt. Mohamed Hussein says the »

The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia Michael Keating expressed grave concern over the renewed violence in Gaalkacyo on 23 December that has resulted in the deaths of at least three »

The United Nations, African Union, European Union, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, Ethiopia, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States have closely followed the work of the Independent »

A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber has killed at least six people and injured five others at a police station in the Somalia capital. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the attack early Sunday targeted a police »

The new troops deployed under Uganda Battle Group 20 will be charged with ensuring security during the presidential elections which have been postponed thrice this year. Uganda sent 2745 new troops in the latest »

Today, a statement issued by the European Union has strongly condemned the attack on Horseed Media journalist in Garowe Puntland. Omar Dhere who is also the editor of Horseed Weekly Magazine was physically »

Ilhan Omar, the first Somali-American Muslim woman lawmaker, on Wednesday (7 December) said that she was verbally attacked for being a Muslim by a cab driver in Washington DC on Tuesday. The state »

Garowe, Puntland: The Media Association of Puntland (MAP) denounces the physical-attack and life threatening call’’ in the direction of Horseed’s Newspaper editor, Omar Said Mohamed. MAP has notified the »

Brief background of Puntland Puntland State is geographically located in the eastern portion of Somalia with a total area of 212.510 km2, (roughly one-third of Somalia's geographical area. It has an estimated »

A car bomb has exploded inside a bustling marketplace in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. The preliminary death toll stands at 10 people but is expected to climb considerably, medical sources said. Militants targeted »

HE Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the President of Somalia today cuts the ribbon of the rehabilitated Polytechnic College in Mogadishu, where the President graduated and as a teacher and learnt the value of education. Somali »

Senior military commanders from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) started a meeting in Mogadishu on Monday to review and re-assess their operations and counter-terrorism strategy. The sector commanders' »

The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, HE Hassan Sheik Mohamud expresses his appreciation to the state governments, Indirect Election Implementation Teams, the Somali National Army, state security forces and »

Kenya's interior minister says the government has extended by six months its deadline for sending home at least 280,000 Somali refugees to close the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya's east. Joseph Nkaissery said »

The top UN envoy in Somalia has called on Somalia's two warring regional states to stick to a ceasefire agreement to help end fighting which has claimed 45 lives in the past six weeks. Special Representative of »

H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia congratulates President Elect Donald J Trump for being elected as the 45th president of the United States of America, and wishes the US »

Another major aid group is warning Kenya not to close the world's largest refugee camp, saying the move is pressuring tens of thousands of Somali refugees to return to their deeply unstable country. A new Refugees »

Somalia's Al-Shabaab militants have beheaded five civilians, whom they accused of "spying" for the Somali government and Ethiopian troops, in Tiyeglow town of the southwestern Bakool region, an MP said Tuesday. Member »

A former Orange County cab driver convicted in 2013 of supporting terrorists in his home country of Somalia was turned over to authorities in the city of Mogadishu on Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement »

On the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the United States honors the men and women of the Somalia media who, despite threats of intimidation and violence, continue to provide news and »

About 260 Americans have joined, or tried to join, terrorists overseas. And many of us wonder how in God’s name does that happen? How is an American drawn into a group that seeks to destroy everything that America stands »

Many guns imported by the Somali government with U.N. approval are being resold by arms dealers on the black market in the nation's capital Mogadishu, two Western diplomats said. Such sales violate a three-year-old »

At least three people have been killed and four wounded in a suspected suicide car bomb attack at a restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, according to officials. The Blue Sky restaurant, which was attacked on »

Elections in Somalia to choose a new parliament have been postponed for the second time in two months due to a dispute over how to select future members, a lawmaker said on Sunday. Voting for the 275-seat parliament »

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has launched a national campaign for women in an effort to achieve a 30 percent quota of seats in both houses of the country's next federal parliament. Mohamud, who presided »