Somalia

By: FAO Rome - While humanitarian assistance has prevented worse outcomes and staved off famine in parts of Somalia thus far, millions of rural Somali people continue to face unprecedented challenges to their food security. Reversing the alarming...

By: Andrew deGrandpre, The Trump administration would consider deploying additional U.S. troops to Somalia should the troubled African nation request greater military aid to combat al-Qaida loyalists there, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis indicated Thursday. "That's a decision we'll take if it's broached to us, and we'll...

By:MoDuale MOGADISHU, Somalia - Ambassador Raychelle Omamo, who is Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister, arrived in Mogadishu on Sunday morning. She is expected to meet her counterpart Mohamed Abdirizak, Prime Minister Hussein Roble, and later hold talks with President Mohamed Farmaajo. Somalia Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdirizak confirms on Twitter the meeting between...

BY: REUTERS An estimated 30 people died on Sunday when Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab group launched an attack in a town in the country's semi-autonomous state of Galmudug, a security official said. The insurgents used car bombs in the assault on a military base in Galmudug's...

Minister for Africa deepens political ties and increases support for refugees and education, on a visit to Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia. Harriett Baldwin, Foreign Office and DFID Minister for Africa, visited East Africa 4-7 October, travelling to Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia, including the Somaliland region. Uganda In...

Auditor general fired after security detail gunned down cabinet minister in case of mistaken identity By Mohammed Dhaysane and Addis Getachew MOGADISHU, Somalia  Somalia’s Auditor General Nur Farah was fired on Thursday after his security guards shot dead a cabinet minister. Abbas Siraj, the 31-year-old Minister of Public...

By:Alpha News In a video widely circulated on social media, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is quoted as allegedly saying, “The U.S. government will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do! They will do what...

Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Mohamed has been released from detention by Somali security agents in the capital Mogadishu. Mohamed, a British national, was detained on Tuesday afternoon along with a driver, fixer and cameraman. He had been in Somalia for a week on a reporting assignment. Mohamed...

BY CALEB WEISS | September 21st, 2016 | weiss.caleb2@gmail.com | @Weissenberg7 Shabaab’s flag seen flying in Mogokori’s town center Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, has claimed control of a town in the central Somalian region of Hiraan in recent days. According to local news...

By: AP A federal judge in Virginia has refused to vacate the life sentence handed down to a Somali man convicted in a 2010 attack on a U.S. Navy vessel off the coast of Africa. A judge in Norfolk issued a ruling Friday rejecting Mohamed Abdi...