Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will warn on Thursday that the threat from Islamist militants is growing and the current approach for tackling the threat will fail unless...

A suicide bomber executed a car bomb attack killing six and injuring 15 others in a targeted strike on government offices in Mogadishu, Garowe Online reported yesterday. Three Somali...

Hundreds of migrants have been relocated from government-run detention centres in Libya after being trapped by clashes between rival groups, UN and aid sources said on Thursday. The migrants were abandoned...

Some 500 Somalis have graduated from a British Security Training Centre located in southern Somalia Baidoa, Forces Network reported yesterday. British forces have been providing training to the Somali...

African migrants rejected by Italy in a standoff with the European Union last week said they had been held by smugglers for up to two years in Libya and many had...

Somalis who graduated from Turkish universities on Monday condemned the US sanctions on Turkey and urged their compatriots to help the Turkish nation go through their difficult times, Anadolu reports....

Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has reshuffled key security officials in a move to counter an ongoing threat from Al-Qaeda’s affiliate Al-Shabaab. Farmajo appointed Dahi Adnan Ilmi as the...

A militant group associated with Daesh in Syria and Iraq has started levying taxes on businesses in Somalia, Garowe Online reported yesterday. “The traders and businesses in Bosaso city...

Minnesota State Representative and Somali-born Muslim Ilhan Omar has won the Democratic Party’s primary election for the state’s 5th District to become the second Arab Muslim candidate to join...

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is supporting thousands of Somali nationals return from war-torn Yemen, the UN reported in a briefing yesterday. The last boat carrying some 116...

The United States-backed Special Forces have taken over a strategic base from the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab in Southern Somalia, Garowe Online reported today. A surprise dawn attack was launched...

At least three Somali soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Afgoye district, a town 30 km to the north west of the capital Mogadishu, police and...

A suicide bomber killing two and injuring four others in a targeted attack on an official in the northern Somali province of Togdher, according to Garowe Online. The bomber...

After years of animosity, the presidents of Eritrea and Somalia have signed an agreement to restore relations, Al Jazeera reported today. Eritrea and Somalia are bridging the gap in...

Deaf footballers in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu have set up their own league after they faced difficulties joining mainstream football teams, the BBC reported today. “We were not given equal...

The impact of the anti-Qatar embargo continues to have strange consequences beyond the Gulf. Somalia is increasingly compromised by its schizophrenic approach to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE...

The United Nation’s Security Council yesterday voted to delay the reduction of troops in the peacekeeping mission in Somalia, Associated Press reported. Troops part of the African Union Mission...

One thousand troops from the Ugandan People’s Defence Forces arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu over the weekend, Garowe Online reported today. Led by Colonel Paul Muwanguzi, the battalion...

Somalia’s president paid a rare visit to Eritrea on Saturday in a sign that Asmara is trying to use the opportunity created by a rapprochement with Ethiopia to improve...

Somalia’s police shot dead a broadcast journalist yesterday, Garowe Online reported. This is the first killing of a journalist in 2018 as the government battles with corruption within its ranks....

The United States executed an air strike against Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia early this week, Garowe Online reported today. “In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, US forces...

Somalia’s Attorney General Ahmed Ali Dahir yesterday announced the country’s first ever prosecution against female genital mutilation (FGM) following the death of a ten-year-old girl, an adviser to the...

Al-Shabaab fighters detonated a suicide car bomb before storming a military base in the south of Somalia today and killing 27 soldiers, the militant group said, its second strike...

The Trump administration said on Thursday it would allow some 500 Somalis to remain in the United States for at least another 18 months under protected status given violence...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) ambassador to the European Union and Luxembourg reiterated his commitment to unity, security and stability, the Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported today. The positive...

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...