The UN called for "massive" action to aid drought victims in the Horn of Africa at a crisis meeting in Rome on Monday while charities due to meet in Nairobi this week critised low ... Read more »
The spokesman of Al Shabaab, Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Rage has said that the previously banned aid agencies won't be allowed to operate in the regions they control. Read more »
The head of the United Nations refugee agency has described the situation in drought-hit Somalia as the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world. Meanwhile civil society groups ... Read more »
The Somali group, al-Shabab, says it has lifted a ban on aid agencies operating in the parts of the country it controls. The UN says close to three million people in Somalia need ... Read more »
The newly approved Somali prime minister proclaimed that his government will keep on battling against what he called terrorists in Somalia. Read more »
Fatuma Noor, reporter for the Nairobi Star, was awarded the top prize at this year's CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards for an investigative three-part series on Somalia's ... Read more »
An estimated 10 million people across East Africa are facing a severe food crisis following a prolonged drought in the region, the United Nations says. Read more »
The killing of Mohammed Abdullah Fazul, a key al Shabaab figure nearly a month after the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has dealt a major blow to the militia group which ... Read more »
The Sh300 million ransom intercepted at Mogadishu airport two weeks ago will be forfeited to the Somali government. Read more »
One of the masterminds of the 1998 American embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam has been killed at a Mogadishu checkpoint by Somali Transitional Federal Government ... Read more »
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