Africa

The Somali capital Mogadishu, where at least 18 people died Wednesday in attacks on two restaurants, has suffered repeated attacks since Islamist fighters were driven out of the city in August 2011. Here is a recap of the biggest assaults since 2015: – 2017 – – May...

The United Nations migration agency expressed deep concern for around 260 Somali and Ethiopian migrants allegedly held and mistreated by criminal gangs in Libya, saying it believed that a harrowing video of them posted on social media was authentic. The International Organization for Migration said...

The national government has promised a raft of measures to help the ailing miraa sector. Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett told miraa farmers that the Government has petitioned the UN for the interpretation of a convention on drug trade that European nations had used...

DJIBOUTI, June 15 (Reuters) - Djibouti on Thursday inaugurated a new port that will serve as the main gateway for potash exports from neighouring Ethiopia, the second of four new ports that will boost the tiny Horn of Africa nation's position as a continental...

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has accused the United States of being the architects of the borderline tension between them and neighbouring Ethiopia. In a letter addressed to selected heads of states, Afwerki urged his peers to force the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to address...

By:Edith M. Lederer UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution underscoring the importance of the United Nations in promoting peace and reconciliation efforts by Somalia’s new government and strongly condemning attacks by the al-Shabab extremist group. The resolution extends the U.N. political...

By Jamal Ibrahim, jamal@alleastafrica.com HARGEYSA –  A Somali journalist held in detention for asking the health minister a question about his work attendance problems that frustrated many including patients seeking medical attention abroad who subsequently missed important appointments with the minister is in poor health...

By:Abdi Guled, The Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia — Gunmen posing as military forces were holding an unknown number of hostages inside a popular restaurant in Somalia’s capital in an attack that began when a car bomb exploded at the gate, police and a witness said, while...

Ethiopia has denied suggestions by UN officials that it will run out of emergency food aid for millions of people by the end of this month. The UN's World Food Programme said 7.8 million people affected by drought would be left without food assistance. But Ethiopian...

Switzerland - The UN Migration Agency (IOM) is deeply concerned by the situation of approximately 260 Somali and Ethiopian migrants and refugees, including many children, held captive by smugglers and/or criminal gangs in Libya. In a video posted on Facebook on 9 June, hundreds...