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...
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 and residents said....
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MOGADISHU, Somalia – A Yemeni Embassy official has been killed when bomb explosives fitted into his car, has exploded in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. The victi...
On Wednesday evening, a German nurse was abducted by gunmen from a compound owned by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Mogadishu.
She was repor...
At least 15 people have died and numerous families have been displaced across Kenya following two days of heavy rainfall, according to officials. The rains have caused flooding in both urban and rural areas....
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that one of its workers has been shot dead in the Somali capital. An official with WHO told VOA that Mariam A...
Vaccines keep children alive and healthy by protecting them against disease. Yet in 2016, an estimated 1.4 million children under five died from vaccine-prevent...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least 600 weapons were stolen in the past week from a former United Arab Emirates-run training center in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and are for sale in the city, weapons dealers said on Wednesday....
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According to the Aid Worker Security Report 2017, 158 major attacks against aid operations occurred in 2016. In these attacks, 101 aid workers were killed, 98 w...
Starting from a very low base, Somalia is making slow but definite, if reversible, progress towards becoming a capable, peaceful, and fully sovereign state....
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Rival forces from Somalia’s army shot at each other in the capital Mogadishu on Monday, with one group trying to storm a training center the United Arab Emirates left behind after it ended a training program there, soldiers and ...
A bomb exploded during a local soccer (football) game in southern Somalia's restive Lower-Shabelle province on Thursday, killing at least four people, security ...
Three people are dead after a pair of suicide car bombings in Somalia's capital, police said Friday. The first explosion occurred at an army checkpoint on the a...
Islamist militants have launched a gun and bomb attack on an African Union (AU) peacekeeper base in Somalia. Al Shabab fighters detonated two car bombs outside the base in the town of Bulamarer, south-west of Mogadishu....
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The International Committee of the Red Cross says one of its staff members is dead after a car bombing in Somalia's capital. Somali police said two others were...
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