Somalia: UN envoy expelled
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalia’s government has ordered the United Nations envoy to the country to leave, amid questions over the arrest of the al-Shabab extremist group’s former deputy leader who had run for a…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalia’s government has ordered the United Nations envoy to the country to leave, amid questions over the arrest of the al-Shabab extremist group’s former deputy leader who had run for a…
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The death toll rose to 26 from Saturday’s twin bombings in Somalia’s capital, police and hospital sources said Monday. The number rose because several victims of the suicide car blast near…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An explosives-packed vehicle detonated at a military checkpoint near Somalia’s presidential palace, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than 20 others, police said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The U.S. military says it has killed 11 al-Shabab extremists with a pair of airstrikes outside Somalia’s capital. The U.S. Africa Command statement says Wednesday’s airstrikes were in self-defense after al-Shabab fighters…
Somalia was hit by two violent attacks Monday, one killing an Islamic cleric and 17 of his followers for playing music and a second killing at least six people in a car bomb blast in…
Somalia, South Sudan, and Nigeria are the African nations listed among the countries where killers of journalists can ‘get away with murder’. For the fourth year in a row, Somalia topped the Global Impunity Index…
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Ilhan Omar fled civil war in Somalia and spent four years of her childhood in a refugee camp in Kenya. Now she is poised to win a seat in the U.S. Congress,…
Somali intelligence officials say the largest U.S. military airstrike against al-Shabab extremists in Somalia in nearly a year largely destroyed a training camp and killed more fighters than the U.S. announced. Two officials tell The…
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The death toll has risen to 20 people on Sunday following two suspected suicide bombers that struck in the southern Somali city of Baidoa on Saturday, a local hospital official said. “We…
**Editor’s note: Given the subject this story explores, the discussion includes some explicit language. Two sisters bled to death in Somalia after they were forced to undergo female genital mutilation, the latest tragic death in…