Mohamed Omar Farah known as ( Inda bur), the chairman of the high court of the transitional Federal Government has Friday called for the officials of the transitional government to keep the security of the court staff.
Heavy fighting between government forces and rebel fighters have killed at least 7 people and injured more than 11 others in Somalia's chaotic capital Mogadishu.
Somalia's parliament speaker Sheikh Aden Mohammed Nur Madobe has accused the rebel movements of commiting gross human right violation against the innocent civilians in war-torn Somalia.
This month's deadly bombing of a medical school's graduation ceremony in Somalia will likely reduce the popularity of the country's main Islamist insurgency, despite the group's denial of involvement, say analysts.
Heavy fighting between the Islamist fighters of Harakat Al shabab Mujahideen and Hizbul Islam and the transitional federal Government troops has started in north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, just as the Islamist forces claimed victory over the fighting between the two sides.
A sporadic fighting between the transitional Federal Government troops and the Islamist fighters has broken out in the north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
At least 2 Islamist fighters have been killed and 6 others have been injured after car accident occurred at El-gal village, 15 kilometers to Beledweyn town in central Somalia, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Detectives deployed to Coast Province following an influx of Somali immigrants have arrested 23 more people without valid papers in Mombasa.
A case against nine Somalis accused of piracy stalled on Thursday when two witnesses failed to show up.
From a distance, the former headquarters of Mogadishu Water Agency is clearly a poor shadow of its former self. It has decaying walls, disorganised structures and rickety kiosks around the front door.
Ali Hassan known as (Ali Barduro), the last member of the Somali Youth League (SYL) died in the Kenyan capital Nairobi overnight, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
The Islamic administration of Beled-hawo town have ordered the religious leaders of the mosques and the people to pray only one time, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
FOR years, the Somali people have suffered. Hundreds have died due to gunshot wounds, bullets, hunger and diseases. Hundreds, as I talk, are sleeping under trees, with nothing to eat or drink.
Somali pirates and commercial shipping are engaged in a low-key maritime war off the East African coast.
When a deadly blast tore through a graduation ceremony in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on 3 December, 23 people died, dozens were injured and the day suddenly turned dark for hundreds of people who had turned up for what should have been a celebration.
The government has stepped up security along the Kenya-Somalia border to ward off security threats posed by militias that have taken control of most of the war ravaged country.
War-torn and drought-ravaged Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis with no funding so far raised or pledged for next year for food, water, sanitation, health and other vital needs and the potential that the situation could spill over into a major regional crisis for its neighbours, senior United Nations officials warned today.
.At least 10 civilians were killed and 25 others injured in heavy fighting between Somali government forces and insurgents in the Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu, witnesses said on Wednesday.
Somalia's president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Wednesday visited the country's marine force to urge them in the fight against the piracy along the lawless Somali waters.
A Somali man has executed his wife in Wadajir district in the Somalia capital Mogadishu after seeing her having pregnancy for another man, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
Delegations from Africa Oil and Range Resource have held talks with the representative of Somalia's Puntland state in the administrative capital of Garowe, where they discussed the amendment of an oil exploration accord.
Barely three days after police arrested some nine people thought to have come from Somalia with crude weapons, Kenyan police on Tuesday morning arrested some 35 aliens in Bura, Tana River.
The Transitional Federal Government president Sharif Sheik Ahmed has Wednesday called for the marines to protect the Somali pirates whom he accused of committing banditry action in the Indian Ocean Sea.
An Al-Qaeda operative has been named the new leader for Somalia's powerful insurgents Al-Shabaab, says Djiboutian Foreign Affairs minister.
An Ethiopian rebel group, which is fighting to make the oil-rich Somali region of Ogaden in eastern Ethiopia an independent state, has voiced its condemnation over the recent suicide hotel blast in Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu, which killed more than 24 people including four Somali ministers.
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