A military spokesman in Somalia says that government forces will help to replace Ethiopian troops who vacated a Somali town in recent days.
The pull-out by Ethiopian troops from the town of Baidoa on Sunday and Monday increases the pressure on African Union and Somali forces to fill the vacuum...
A woman state administrator has been killed in Somalia and two reporters shot and injured in the war-torn country.
The Deputy Commissioner of Somalia's Yakshid District in north Mogadishu, Ms Rahma Dahir Siad, was killed near her home on Wednesday evening.
Ms Siad's killing was first made public by the Mogadishu...
A U.N. report paints a dark picture of corruption in Somalia's government, which could turn off countries that bankroll the country's budget.
NAIROBI, Kenya—A United Nations report published Wednesday paints a dark picture of rampant corruption within Somalia's fledgling government, a portrait that could turn off donor countries that bankroll...
The disposition matrix is a complex grid of suspected terrorists to be traced then targeted in drone strikes or captured and interrogated. And the British government appears to be colluding in it.
When Bilal Berjawi spoke to his wife for the last time, he had no way of being certain...
Somalia's deputy energy minister, Abdullahi Dool, said contracts awarded for four blocks in deep waters were invalid and the government planned to complain to the United Nations, which oversees maritime border laws.
"We are concerned about the lease of blocks," Dool told Reuters. "I am sure we will...
The brother of Abdirahim Hassan, who was murdered on Wednesday in Somalia, told Swedish press that the young politician had died for his "belief in a peaceful world" in the shooting that also wounded his Swedish colleague.
Somalia shooting a possible kidnap attempt (22 Aug 2013)
Swedish politicians shot in Somalia...
Somalia's government accused Kenya on Friday of awarding offshore oil and gas exploration blocks illegally to multinationals Total and Eni because the concessions lie in waters claimed by Somalia.
The spat between Kenya and its war-ruined neighbour could complicate the hunt for resources along a part of the East African...
On Tuesday night two Gunmen have shot and killed Abdinasir Mohamed Cilmi an officer working for the Puntland Development Research Center in Galkacyo, Puntland.
Abdinasir was on his way home, when he was attacked by two men armed with pistols. He left the Imam Shafici mosque in Garsoor neighbourhood after...
Nigeria's military has repelled a new attack by militant Islamist group Boko Haram on the strategically important north-eastern city of Maiduguri, an army source has told the BBC.
Dozens of militants and soldiers were reportedly killed during a major assault on the city on Sunday.
The city is quiet on Monday,...
Ugandan peacekeepers from the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) disembark from a plane at Mogadishu's airport July 1, 2011, at the beginning of their mission in the lawless horn of African nation. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
The African Union troops, AMISOM in Somalia are mandated under UN Resolution (2297) to...