Four soldiers have been arrested in Somalia after a nine-year-old schoolgirl was shot dead in the capital, Mogadishu, police say. Deqa Dahir died and another gi...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Gunmen from Somalia’s Al Shabaab group killed six people including at least four soldiers in the streets of the capital, a day after the I...
Al-Qaida is trying to regain its primacy over international militancy as Islamic State loses ground, a senior NATO official said on Tuesday, seeing a potentially increased risk to the West from the groups' rivalry....
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The defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, has announced that Britain’s first specialist army training team is being set up to help tackle sexual violence and the...
Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed reshuffled key security officials including the army chief, a move authorities said is part of a new strategy to quell a wave of attacks by al-Qaeda-affiliated militants....
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Somali security forces are searching for five aid workers who were kidnapped by gunmen in the south-west of the country. Reports indicate that the aid workers ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) Michael Scott Moore is walking a bit gingerly these days, but it has nothing to do with the 2½ years he spent imprisoned by Somali pirates, t...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia’s al Shabaab group said on Monday its fighters had attacked a military base in the south of the country, killing 27 soldiers. “We first attacked the base with a suicide car bomb and then stormed. We killed 27 soldiers ...
At least six people have been killed — including five of the attackers — in two assaults Saturday near the presidential palace in Mogadishu, witnesses said....
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Title:
Aid in Danger: Monthly News Brief - May 2018
Author:
Christina Wille, Helen Buck and Laurence Gerhardt at Insecurity Insight
Date:
June 2018
About:
This monthly digest comprises threats and incidents of violence affe...
It's late on Wednesday afternoon and the Shiirkole football pitch in the Somali capital should be teeming with life. Usually there are uniformed players and cr...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia’s militant Islamist group al Shabaab has retaken a small town in the center of the country after it was abandoned by government tr...
Kenyan police said there are rising numbers of Islamist fighters gathering on the country’s border with war-torn Somalia and some are planning attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan....
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GAROWE, Somalia (Reuters) - Police in Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region arrested more than 40 protesters and two journalists at a demonstration in a town wh...
President Trump’s travel ban prevented Mohammed Al-Awadhi’s Yemeni wife from joining him in Arkansas, but he was certain she would qualify for a waiver: She has...
JOWHAR, Somalia – A Somali government soldier has allegedly shot and killed a local aid worker in Jowhar town, some 90km north of the capital of Mogadishu. The victim, whose name has been released as Hassan Mohamed Hassan was gunned down by a milita...
At least 22 people have been killed, and others are still missing after heavy rains from tropical cyclone hit the Horn of Africa....
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#Djibouti and Northern #Somalia Weather Alert: Tropical storm will make landfall between Djibouti and Northern Somalia on Fri. evening (May 18) into Sat. morn...
Title:
Aid in Danger: Monthly News Brief - April 2018
Author:
Christina Wille, Helen Buck and Laurence Gerhardt at Insecurity Insight
Date:
May 2018
About:
This monthly digest comprises threats and incidents of violence aff...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - An explosion killed at least five people and wounded 10 on Wednesday in a market for the stimulant leaf khat in southern Somalia, police a...
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