At least six people reportedly killed in blast near police station next to busy market in Waberi district. (more…)

MOGADISHU, Somalia- At least two civilians were wounded in a powerful landmine explosion in the Somali capital Mogadishu early on Saturday morning, Garowe Online reports. (more…)

A stampede during a football match at a South African stadium that hosted the 2010 World Cup final has killed two people. (more…)

A white woman who was filmed hurling racist abuse at Somali women in a parking lot has apologized to the immigrants for her vile behavior. (more…)

Armed group al-Shabab claims responsibility for attack on security convoy near Baidoa in country's southwest. (more…)

More than 100 Somalis, recently released from Ethiopian detention facilities and handed over to the Somali government, arrived in Mogadishu on Saturday, government officials told VOA Somali. (more…)

Somalia National Army (SNA)-backed by the African Union peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) on Friday destroyed an Al-Shabaab compound in southern Somalia. (more…)

Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group on Friday attended a YouthConnect Africa 2017 summit in Kigali, Rwanda, where he promised to set up a project working with the universities in the continent on e-commerce. (more…)

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — China would consider sending peacekeeping troops to a disputed Djibouti-Eritrea border region after Qatar pulled out its troops last month, China’s top diplomat to the African Union said Friday, as the Asian giant’s military role overseas grows. (more…)

Asma Jama was out to dinner with her family at an Applebee's in Coon Rapids, Minn., in October 2015, when a woman seated nearby starting getting angry. Why? Jama, who is Somali-American and Muslim, was speaking Swahili and wearing a hijab. (more…)