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By Greg Miller and Adam Entous May 5 at 7:12 PM Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was warned by senior members of President Trump’s transition team about the risks of his contacts with the Russian ambassador weeks before the December call that led to...

In Somaliland, medical workers are in a desperate race against time to save millions of children from death. The children are at risk of starvation in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria. According to Carolyn Miles, the CEO of Save the Children, of the 20...

The death of a U.S. Navy SEAL in Somalia this week highlights the little-known mission that U.S. military advisers have been carrying out in that country: to advise the Somali military in its fight against the al Qaeda affiliate, al-Shabaab. Since 2013 a small number...

By Kim Palmer | CLEVELAND An Ohio county grand jury voted not to bring charges against a campus police officer who fatally shot a Somali immigrant who had injured 11 people in a car and knife attack last year, county prosecutor said on Thursday. The Franklin...

By Missy Ryan An American service member was killed during an operation against al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia, the U.S. military said Friday. The incident, which took place Thursday 40 miles west of the capital Mogadishu in an area called Barii, was a part of an intensified American effort to...

This story by Arthur Nazaryan originally appeared on PRI.org on April 21, 2017. It is republished here as part of a partnership between PRI and Global Voices. It was just two years ago that Liban Adam found himself in the shrublands in northern Somalia, crouched over a giant bowl of...

By:Samuel Oakford U.S. OFFICIALS THIS WEEK requested the geographic coordinates of aid groups working in Somalia, according to a document obtained by The Intercept — a move that could indicate an escalation of military action against the Shabab. The notice to NGOs comes a month after...

Approximately 50,000 Haitians and 4,000 Somalis are now at risk of being deported. The Black Alliance for Just Immigration, BAJI, is calling on lawmakers to halt the mass deportation of Haitian and Somali immigrants living in the United States. BAJI, a grassroots organization that mobilizes and empowers...

The US is to tighten sanctions on North Korea and step up diplomatic moves aimed at pressuring the country to end its nuclear and missile programmes. President Donald Trump's strategy was announced after a special briefing for all 100 US senators. Earlier, the top US commander...

A Minnesota woman who sent money to the militant group al-Shabab in Somalia was sentenced to five years' probation on Wednesday after she cooperated with prosecutors, who said the light sentence would send a message to community members who shunned the woman yet supported...