Despite ugly smear campaigns to discredit them, violent threats and racist comments 23-year-olds Safiya Khalid and Nadia Mohamed who are both former refugees still managed to ... Read more »

At least 4 people have been killed, including 2 soldiers in Garowe, the capital city of Puntland in a stand-off to impeach parliamentary speaker Abdihakim Dhoobo Daareed. Read more »

U.S. Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, head of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), said he would "assess the progress" of the U.S. military campaign to keep pressure on the Islamic State ... Read more »

An Islamic teacher in Somalia has rubbished a story published by Uganda's top newspaper New Vision claiming that he is the lost son of dictator Idi Amin Dada by a Somali woman. Read more »

The strike intended for an Islamic State hideout in Somalia's northeastern region of Puntland, mistakenly hit a village where two civilians were killed, according to eyewitnesses ... Read more »

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute say three decades of conflict - coupled with increasingly severe droughts - are posing serious challenges to the United Nations ... Read more »

The man identified as Abdullahi Banati, a Somali Galjeel, is said to have led a team of Al-Shabaab militia who planted the explosive device that killed officers on patrol along the ... Read more »

At least seven people have been wounded in a mortar attack by militant group Al-Shabaab that targeted the compound of a UN and AU mission in Mogadishu. Read more »

Somalia is demanding an explanation for the October 5 incident, when an aircraft flew from Nairobi directly to Kismayu without official permission from Mogadishu. Authorities ... Read more »

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Somalian social rights activist Ilwad Elman and Libyan law student Hajer Sharief are among the nominees for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. While ... Read more »