Armed guards on ships in the Indian Ocean have permission to fire first to fend off Somali pirates, under new guidance
issued to UK-flagged ships.
Foreign Office minister Henry Bellingham said the new advice was clearer than earlier versions and was intended to give
security teams instructions on when they can...
A Kenyan court on Wednesday charged a Swiss man with being a member of Somalia's Al-Qaeda allied Shebab, the latest in a string of foreign nationals accused of links to the Islamist insurgents.
Magd Najjar, who was initially reported to be Swedish when he was arrested last month, was charged...
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...
MADRID — Two Spanish aid workers for Doctors Without Borders who were kidnapped in Kenya by Somali militants and held hostage for nearly two years arrived home Friday, the group said.
Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut were met by relatives after their arrival at an air base in Madrid, it...
press release
Reporters Without Borders is very worried by the grave threat to media freedom and media pluralism posed by a bill that the Somali cabinet approved on 11 July and, if adopted by parliament, would replace the 2007 media law.
Its provisions include giving the courts the power...
Alshabaab were attacked to UN agency UNDP in mogadisho,it was heavy attack and contains explossion car bump and five melitiament armed with small arms.
The alshabaab were claimed that attack and spokes man of alshabaab sheikh ali dhere was told media suported with alshabaab that they were...
At least six people are dead and dozens more are injured after a packed train carrying hundreds of passengers derailed and crashed into a station outside paris.
The seven-carriage service was about 20 minutes into a three-hours journey to lemoges when it crashed 12 miles south of the capital about...
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...
Clan politics,rivalry and hatred have ruined the social bond,moral principles and trust among somalis who share common language,culture,territory,history,and religion,now three political manifestations secession, clan based federalism and unitary decentralized political system-divide them and are obstacle to the recovery of the lost nation of somalia.
Continequening.
Kenya has dismissed a UN report which accuses its troops in Somalia of facilitating charcoal exports in defiance of a UN Security Council ban.
The report, leaked to Reuters news agency, said Kenyan troops helped export charcoal from Kismayo port after militant Islamist group al-Shabab lost control of it...