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WASHINGTON — Officials in Somalia and breakaway Somaliland took bribes in exchange for authorizing a United Arab Emirates military base in the port city of Berbera, Read more
WASHINGTON — The parliament of the break-away republic of Somaliland has overwhelming approved a deal to allow the United Arab Emirates to establish an air Read more
By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Thousands of Somalis fired guns in the air, cheered atop military vehicles and slaughtered camels on Thursday to celebrate Read more
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Gunfire echoed across the Somali capital on Wednesday evening during the second round of voting by lawmakers for their president, a Reuters Read more
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, a U.S.-educated former prime minister, was sworn in as Somalia’s new president on Wednesday after lawmakers gave him an Read more
BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab militants stormed a hotel in the capital of the semi-autonomous Puntland region, Bosasso, on Wednesday, killing four guards, Read more
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Al Shabaab militants in Somalia publicly beheaded four men accused of spying for the country’s Western-backed government, the United States and neighbouring Read more
By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) – Three of five people abducted by Islamic State-affiliated fighters in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland last weekend were Read more
By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The Islamist group al Shabaab said on Friday its fighters killed dozens of Kenyan troops when Read more
By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Islamist militants rammed a car bomb into the gate of a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu Read more
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least 13 people were killed on Wednesday in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu when al Shabaab militants rammed a car bomb into the Read more
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least four soldiers were killed and five wounded on Tuesday when a roadside bomb that Islamist insurgents said they planted exploded Read more
By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali Islamist group al Shabaab shot two men and a teenager in southern Somalia on Tuesday, saying one of Read more
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A car bomb wounded at least four U.N. guards when it exploded near a United Nations compound in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Read more
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Suicide bombers attacked the main peacekeeping base in Somalia’s capital on Monday, killing at least three Somali security officers, police said. Islamist Read more
At least three people were killed when a suicide attacker set off a car bomb at a checkpoint outside the main base of an African Read more
By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Islamist militants have beheaded eight Somali village elders and killed at least seven other people during Read more
By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) – Islamist insurgents killed four pro-government Somali soldiers and injured 11 others when a roadside bomb destroyed a military Read more
By Abdiqani Hassen BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) – Hundreds of pro-government Somali forces began moving toward the port town of Qandala on Monday for an offensive Read more
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s prime minister said on Saturday he had secured a ceasefire between two warring regions in the Horn of Africa nation, two Read more
ary’s Africa Command said the air strike was carried out at the request of Puntland Security Forces “and our own assessment of the situation.” A Read more
By Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A September U.S. air strike in Somalia killed local militia forces and not al Shabaab militants as the Pentagon Read more
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Two Somali soldiers died and five others were injured when a car bomb claimed by Islamist group al Shabaab exploded on Saturday Read more
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The Islamist group al Shabaab seized a town northwest of Somalia’s capital from government forces on Sunday, the latest small centre taken Read more
The United Nations estimates 200 million girls and women in more than 30 countries have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). Somalia has the highest rate Read more
A suicide bomber connected to Al-Shabab has driven a vehicle loaded with explosives into an African Union Military Base in central Somalia. According to a Read more
By Abdiqani Hassan and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least seven people were killed in weekend fighting between soldiers from two semi-autonomous regions of Read more
A group of sailors who were held hostage by Somali pirates for nearly five years survived in part by eating rats, one survivor has told Read more
DADAAB, KENYA/KISMAYO, SOMALIA — Twenty-eight-year old Nurto Ahmed Abdullahi stands beside the dusty airstrip at Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp, preparing to board a charter flight Read more
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A suicide attacker rammed a bomb-laden car into a police station in the Somali town of Afgoye on Tuesday, killing at least Read more
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