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Al-Shabab militants have warned parents in Somalia against sending their children to secular schools and universities. The Al-Qaeda-affiliated group issued the directive in a 26-minute recording released on Thursday. Its spokesman, Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Rage, said children should attend only Islamic schools and claimed other...

Kenya's military says it has killed 52 fighters with the extremist group al-Shabab in neighboring Somalia. Military spokesman Col. Joseph Owuoth says the army destroyed an extremist camp in Badhadhe region of Lower Jubba early Friday using ground troops and artillery fire. He says an assortment...

By KEVIN J. KELLEY More by this Author NEW YORk-The head of the United States Africa Command (Africom) has indicated that THE Pentagon will not step up the US combat role in Somalia. Marine Corps General Thomas Waldhauser told reporters in a conference call that the dozens...

By:JAMES JEFFREY Ethiopian troops previously assisting the internationally funded African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) were suddenly withdrawn to Ethiopia a few days after the Ethiopian government declared a six-month emergency in early October. As al-Shabaab retook a number of towns, many commentators were quick to...

RIYADH: Two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) and a bilateral agreement were signed on the sidelines of a Saudi-Djibouti businessmen forum in Djibouti earlier this week. The MoUs were signed to rehabilitate King Fahd Road in Djibouti, and a grant was offered to support the health...

South Korea has participated in a multilateral naval exercise involving US, Japanese and British forces to crack down on Somali pirates around the Gulf of Aden, the military here said Friday. South Korea sent the 4,400-ton destroyer Choe Yeong to the Thursday drills, which also...

After a five-year hiatus, hijackers have taken five vessels in the past month BETWEEN 2008 and 2011, the waters off the coast of Somalia were the most treacherous shipping lanes in the world. More than 700 attacks on vessels took place in this period. In...

New York, April 20, 2017--Somaliland authorities should immediately release Ibrahim Osman Ahmed, editor of Hangool News, who has been held without charge since April 15, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Ibrahim is in custody in Hargeisa Central Police Station after handing himself...

By:Merlin Linehan Somaliland is a break away nation on the Horn of Africa, officially part of Somalia and never recognized by any other state it has been effectively independent since the civil war that engulfed Somalia over 20 years ago with its own government and...

This is one of the lessons learnt by members of the Al Imdaad Foundation who went on a humanitarian mission to famine- and war-torn Somalia this month. The foundation has been involved in relief efforts since last month. Muhammed Sader was part of the effort. The...