Two officials working with the African Union's peacekeeping mission in Somalia, Amisom are reportedly under investigation, following reports that they are being used by a Western intelligence agency and South African Intelligence.
At least two Somali MPs have been wounded at Muna hotel around the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu after hand grenades hurled to their hotel in the area, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Friday.
At least two civilians have been killed and four others have been wounded in Karan district in Mogadishu after mortar shell landed in to a garage in north of the capital, witnesses said on Friday.
The government on Friday ordered security operators in the coast province to be vigilant and maintain security along the 600-mile Kenya-Somalia border to ensure illegal immigrants do not enter the country.
High meeting organized by the Islamist clerics of Ahlu Sunna waljama'a is supposed to be opened in Abudwaq district in central Somalia, officials said on Friday.
MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) - at least two of the Somali national Somali disabled army have been wounded at Martini hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu after mortar shell landed in the hospital, official told shabelle radio on Friday.
Somalia's parliament speaker Sheikh Aden Mohammed Nur Madobe has set date for the re-opening of parliament sessions, which has been in recess for more than five months.
Security forces in Somalia's breakaway republic of Somaliland have seized a sack full of explosives left near a bridge that connects between Bur'a and Berbera in northwestern Sahil region.
A top Al-Shabaab official from Somalia's southern Jubba region claims that the recent clashes was between their group and the Ethiopian rebel group, Ogaden National Liberation Front ONLF and not Somalia's Hizbul Islam as earlier reported.
An international meeting on Somalia, chaired by the United Nations, today called on the world community to offer practical and, where possible, direct support to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) as it battles extremists in a country that has had no central government for almost two decades.
Somalia's hardline militant Al-Shabaab has suspended the programmes of UN Mine Action in Somalia.
Sheik Aden Mahamed Nor Madobe, the speaker of the transitional parliament has held meeting in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday and displayed for the lawmakers the date of the parliament's session in Mogadishu.
Mohamed Omar Habeb known as (Dere), the former mayor of the transitional federal government for Mogadishu has Thursday handed over his house and weapon to the newly appointed administration for Banadir region.
A spokesman for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says the organization is having difficulties in raising funds towards its work in Somalia
Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen officials have Thursday issued a statement and shut down the UN organization known as "Mine Action" to operate in Somalia.
Hawiye traditional elders have Wednesday called for the administration of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland not to harm people from southern Somalia.
The top United Nations envoy to Somalia today welcomed the announcement of a meeting tomorrow of over 30 countries, known as the International Contact Group (ICG), to examine what concrete measures can be made to support the beleaguered Somali Government.
The number of reported rapes in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Bosasso, in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, is increasing and rape has become "a major problem", says a civil society source.
More Ethiopian troops have detained several Somali traditional elders from Hiran region in Mostahil district, the Somali region under the control of Ethiopia, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
At least two people have been killed and seven others have been wounded in Ba'ad Weyne village in Mudug region after clannish fighting between two rival Somali clans started there, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
African Union peacekeeping troops in Somalia, AMISOM have reportedly shelled several parts of the restive capital Mogadishu, causing the deaths of civilians, eyewitnesses said.
Somalia's president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has appointed former Somali police chief as Minister of Water and Mines in a reshuffle to replace the slain ministers killed in Mogadishu hotel blast.
At least 20 people are killed and 31 others injured within 24 hours in heavy fighting between Somali rebels and government forces in the restive capital Mogadishu.
At least three soldiers are killed and 8 others injured in a roadside bomb blast in Bossasso, the commercial port city of Somalia's Puntland state, officials said on Tuesday.
Somali refugees fleeing into Kenya following fierce fighting in their country will not be repatriated back to their country, an official from United Nations High Commission for Refugees has said.
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