U.N. experts say the Somali Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab has widened its revenue stream beyond its traditional activities, like charging tolls at checkpoints, to illega Read more »
At least 121 people were killed and over 330 others were injured in two car bombings in Mogadishu on Saturday October 29, 2022. Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud ... Read more »
A famine is increasingly likely in the region as rains fail for the fourth consecutive year. Violent conflicts in the Horn of Africa are also undermining efforts to help the Read more »
The siege at the Tawakal hotel marked Al-Shabaab's second major attack this month amid an offensive against the group by the Somali National Army and allied milit Read more »
Rights groups and security experts have expressed alarm at the calls by Governor of the Hiraan region Ali Jeyte, for the military and clan militias to participate in extra-judicial ... Read more »
Before 2008, Al-Shabaab was a small player within the larger Islamic Courts Union (ICU). The Union was an umbrella entity that emerged around 2003 to provide justice and security ... Read more »
Somalia was shaken by three bomb blasts on Monday, October 3, 2022 - in which over 40 people, including senior government officials were killed. Al-Shabaab&n Read more »
The Somali military has said an offensive in the central Hiran region has captured 20 villages that were occupied by militant group Al-Shabaab. In a statement issued on ... Read more »
The number of children aged between six and 59 months who are at risk of severe acute malnutrition has increased by a third since June, from 386,000 to 513,000, says the UN ... Read more »
Famine "is at the door" in Somalia, with "concrete indications" that parts of the south-central Bay region will be in famine between October and December 2022 without an urgent ... Read more »
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