HODEIDA, YEMEN — A helicopter gunship attacked a boat packed with Somali migrants off the coast of Yemen overnight Thursday, killing at least 31 people, according to a U.N. agency, Yemeni officials and a survivor…
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — Somali pirates who seized a Comoros-flagged oil tanker earlier this week after five years without a major hijacking in the region have released the ship and its crew without conditions, officials said…
The hijackers who seized an oil tanker and its eight-man crew off Somalia are demanding “compensation” for a rise in illegal fishing in Somali waters. VOA’s Somali service spoke by phone to one of the…
Somalia’s new prime minister says that dozens of people, mainly women and children, have died from water-borne diseases within the last two days as a result of the enduring drought in the country. At a…
MOGADISHU — A huge fire engulfed Somali capital’s main market, killing at least two people, a Somali police officer said Monday. The overnight inferno started at the gold bazaar and winds spread it rapidly through…
The death toll from Sunday’s car bomb blast in Somalia’s capital has climbed to 39, according to Mogadishu ambulance services. The vast majority of those killed were civilians in the Kawo-Goday mini-market in the city’s…
Somalia’s new president says he will work to have his country removed from the list of nations whose citizens were — and may yet be — barred from entering the United States. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed,…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court refused Thursday to reinstate President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations. The panel of three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of…
Ninety Somali immigrants who either ran afoul of U.S. law or had their asylum applications rejected have been deported to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, witnesses and officials said Wednesday. Somalia’s ambassador to the United States,…
Somali officials say dozens of people were killed or wounded when al-Shabab militants attacked a Mogadishu hotel with two vehicle bombs and a gun assault Wednesday. Dr. Abdulkadir Abdirahman Aden, the head of ambulance services…