Somalia

Heavy fighting between pro-Islamic State (IS) militants and Somalia's Puntland state forces for the control of the port town of Qandala has displaced 25, 700 people since late October, a UN body said Wednesday. The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said a...

By Mila Koumpilova Star Tribune NONFICTION: A striking portrait of modern Somalia — told through the job and life of Mogadishu's mayor. BBC foreign correspondent Andrew Harding’s book “The Mayor of Mogadishu” opens with an arresting scene: An attack by the militant group Al-Shabab is underway...

By Ian Birrell for The Mail on Sunday The Government is pumping more than half a billion pounds of aid into war-torn Somalia – despite accepting there is ‘certain’ risk of funds being diverted by terrorist groups such as Islamic State and al-Shabaab. The revelation comes...

President Barack Obama has expanded the power of the elite Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to track, plan, and potentially kill terrorists across the globe in places beyond the traditional war zones of Iraq, Syria, and Libya, The Washington Post (WaPo) has learned. The move...

By Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADIHU, Somalia The presidential election has been once again delayed, the country’s electoral commission announced late Monday. Commission chairman Omar Mohamed Abdulle, also known as Omar Dhegey, said the election would not took place Nov. 30 as scheduled. "We are very sorry to share with...

By CHARLIE SAVAGE, ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTINOV. 27, 2016 WASHINGTON — The escalating American military engagement in Somalia has led the Obama administration to expand the legal scope of the war against Al Qaeda, a move that will strengthen President-elect Donald J. Trump’s authority...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A huge blast rocked a vegetable market in the Eastern African country on Saturday, killing at least 11 and wounding scores of others as the Eastern African nation is voting in a government and parliamentary election. "Somalia, following decades of civil war...

By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suspected car bomb killed at least 10 people when it exploded at a police checkpoint next to a busy market in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Saturday, police and witnesses said. Reuters witnesses saw several bodies...

Accusations of corruption have surrounded Somalia’s first ever set of elections, as around 13,000 people cast their votes for a new parliament. The Federal Indirect Electoral Implementation team (FIEIT) and Independent Electoral Disputes Resolution Mechanism (IEDRM) have both reported irregularities in the election process, with...

From November 21st to 23rd EUCAP Nestor, in cooperation with EU NAVFOR (Somalia) Operation Atalanta, organised a Legal Maritime Workshop for prosecutors and police officers in Mogadishu. The eleven participants, including a female prosecutor, learnt about and exchanged views on several legal and maritime security...