The move comes as a response to rising tensions over a controversial port deal - involving Ethiopia leasing 20km of coastline in Somaliland, a territory that Somalia claims as its ... Read more »
Somalia has set the presidential election for next year. This followed an agreement between President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and the federal state leaders to retain the ... Read more »
Thousands of squatters staying in government buildings in the country's capital Mogadishu say they have nowhere to go as government undertakes a major operation to remove them. 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 »
General Odawaa Yusuf Rage who was promoted from the army's infantry command to chief of staff, becomes the country's youngest man to ever lead the armed forces. Read more »
On August 12, 2018, it will be six years since three Uganda People's Defence Force helicopters crashed over Mount Kenya en route to Somalia and left seven soldiers dead. It remains ... Read more »
The two heads of states discussed security, energy and humanitarian assistance on the second day of the Somali leader's tour of Turkey. Read more »
Save the Children has warning that the international community is repeating the failures that led to the deaths of over a quarter of a million people in 2011. Read more »
A group of men arrested and accused of gang raping and stabbing a pair of young girls and who allegedly posted the video online could face the death penalty or life imprisonment if ... Read more »
Fierce fighting between government forces and militia group Al Shabaab continues to kill and injure scores in various parts of the country. Read more »
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