Somalia has arrested some 14 security officers for alleged collusion on a deadly Al-Shabaab attack on the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior in Mogadishu over the weekend, Garowe...

A spokesman for the militant group al Shabaab said it had carried out both bombings and said its fighters remained inside the government security building

The European Parliament has slammed the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia for slashing financial support to Somalia over its neutral position on the Gulf Crisis, Al Jazeera reported...

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab has placed a ban on the use of plastic bags over harm posed to the environment, the Independent reported today. Al-Shabaab-run Radio Andalus broadcasted the...

Ten Somali students were arrested inTurkey’s southern Mersin province over alleged links to the Fethullahist Terror Organisation (FETO), the group suspected to be behind the coup attempt in 2016,...

As Saudi women take the driving seat in a landmark legal change, a survey of global experts released on Tuesday has found they live in the world’s fifth most...

Eight Kenyan soldiers were killed in a cross-border attack on Sunday in northern Wajir County, VOA News reported yesterday. The Kenyan security forces were patrolling the Kenya-Somali border when...

The United Arab Emirates pledged a total of $3 billion in aid and investments to Ethiopia on Friday, an Ethiopian official said, a major show of support for the...

Somalia and Ethiopia announced they were jointly investing in four seaports to attract foreign investment to their two countries, the latest move in a tussle for access to ports...

A US soldier killed in combat with Al-Shaabab in Jubaland, Somalia, has been identified as Alexander Conrad, the Hill reported yesterday. Conrad was killed in an ambush by Somalia’s...

When Hanab Ahmed’s 18-year-old son Mohammed did not come home for lunch or answer his phone, she feared that he – like several other teenagers who had disappeared from...

A US commando was killed and four others were wounded on Friday when they came under fire in Somalia during an operation against al-Shabaab militants, the US military said....

The UN migration agency said on Wednesday that 46 migrants have drowned and 16 others are being presumed dead as they are still missing in Yemen’s shores. “Tragedy struck migrants...

Somalia’s militant group al Shabaab has retaken a small town in the centre of the country after it was abandoned by government troops, residents said on Saturday reports Reuters....

About 140 East African migrants escaped from smugglers holding them captive near the Libyan town of Bani Walid earlier this week, according to a local source and a UN report....

Military transport planes from the United Arab Emirates landed on the sleepy Yemeni island of Socotra last week, unloading tanks and troops as part of the Gulf Arab state’s...

No civilians were killed in a joint US-Somali counter-terrorism raid on Al-Shabaab earlier this week, the Somali government has claimed. Garowe Online reported security spokesperson Abdalaziz Hildhiban saying: “As...

A Somali woman with 11 husbands was handed the death penalty by stoning in an Al-Shabaab court yesterday, Garowe Online reported. The news came when two of the husbands...

The Daesh group has executed some 13 attacks in Somalia so far this year, a number which is set to outpace their attacks in both 2016 and 2017, the...

Nine soldiers from the Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) were killed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab yesterday, the Washington Post reported. An improvised explosive device ripped through the military vehicles...

A security guard who works for the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Somali capital of Mogadishu kidnapped the German nurse who went missing earlier this week,...

Unknown gunmen kidnapped a German woman working for the International Red Cross (ICRC) last night in the Somali capital Mogadishu. A source in the Red Cross told the Anadolu...

Five Somalis have been killed in a suicide attack in Somalia’s Mudug region over the weekend, Horseed Media reported today. A suicide bomber approached a restaurant detonating an explosive...

Somali forces clashed with residual troops from the United Arab Emirates at a military training centre in Mogadishu yesterday, Garowe Online has reported. The fighting erupted after units of...

A lightning strike has killed a newlywed couple in Ari-addays village, some 30 kilometres south of Abudwaq town of Galgaduud, Halbeeg reported today. “The two were at home when...

Somalia’s prime minister owns shares in a controversial port currently at the centre of a crisis with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Garowe Online reported today. An investigation conducted...

Some 145 officers from Sierra Leone’s Formed Police Units (FPU) have been deployed in Somalia’s port city of Kismayo, Garowe Online reported yesterday. The new batch of officers will...

Somalia has begun conciliatory talks with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over tensions which erupted last month, with Mogadishu hoping to clarify some facts surrounding recent events. So far...

A court in Somaliland has sentenced a female poet to three-years in jail after she called for unity with Somalia amid ongoing regional tensions, Garowe Online reported yesterday. Naciima...

Five people were killed after a bomb exploded during an afternoon local football match in the south-western Somali town of Barawe yesterday, Garowe Online reported. The improvised explosive device...

Somalia has scrapped a United Arab Emirates (UAE) military training programme that has existed since 2014, Reuters reported yesterday, amid ongoing tensions between the two nations. “Somalia will fully...

Somalia’s security forces have seized $9.6 million after a long stand-off with United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the search of a Royal Jet aircraft travelling from Abu Dhabi yesterday....