Somalia

No civilians were killed in this airstrike STUTTGART, Germany, April 3, 2018/ -- In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Forces conducted an airstrike against Al-Shabaab militants near El Burr, Somalia, the afternoon of April 1, killing five (5) terrorists and destroying one...

By:FIBA LONDON (England) -  It's with great sorrow that FIBA Africa confirms the passing of Bana Ali, Head of International Relations for Somalia Basketball Federation and FIBA Africa Zone 5 Head of Marketing. Ali's 2020 to-do list was starting to shape up. He had ensured that...

international observers are often fascinated with the Somalian people's close relations with Turkey and their appreciation for the support. Indeed, as a recovering state that has experienced one of the most traumatic civil wars in modern history, Somali has been and continues to be...

By: VOA Ethiopians living in Somalia have become the subject of physical violence, verbal threats and intimidation since Somaliland consented to give Ethiopia access to its coastline at the beginning of this year, members of the Ethiopian...

The Somali Partnership Forum, a major conference on the Horn of Africa state, has opened in Brussels, Belgium. The two-day forum is jointly chaired by the Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo and the European Union Foreign Affairs Chief Federica Magherini. The meeting is a follow...

Euphoria erupted in most neighbourhoods of the Somali capital Mogadishu as soon as the presidential electoral committee announced Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, popularly known as Farmajo, had won the poll. Farmajo attained 184 votes while his opponents, the incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and predecessor Sheikh...

BY:REUTERS A car bomb exploded at a restaurant near the police academy in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday evening, police said. No group immediately claimed responsibility, though Islamist al Shabaab fighters have launched a string of attacks in the city. https://twitter.com/HarunMaruf/status/1113854015828373506   “A car bomb parked at a...

At least 20 people suspected to be members of Islamist group Al-Shabaab were arrested in an operation in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Saturday night, police said. Banadir region police chief, Bashir Abshir Gedi, told journalists troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia...

Two soldiers reportedly killed after explosion at a security checkpoint outside parliament in Mogadishu. A car bomb detonated near Somalia's parliament in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least two people and wounding several others, a senior police officer said. The bomb exploded on Sunday at a...

By: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Legislators in Somalia are meeting Sunday to elect the country’s president in the capital, Mogadishu, which is under lockdown measures aimed at preventing deadly militant attacks. Some 36 candidates are vying for the presidency, including incumbent leader Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and two of his...