Ugandan government yesterday donated foodstuff to flood-affected families in Golwayn in Somalia's Lower Shabelle region. (more…)

Somalia’s militant Islamist group al Shabaab has retaken a small town in the centre of the country after it was abandoned by government troops, residents said on Saturday. (more…)

MOGADISHU-- The United States military said on Friday evening its special forces conducted an airstrike against al-Shabab terrorists in southwest of the capital, Mogadishu, killing 12 terrorists. (more…)

Ali Banat was an Australian Muslim whose diagnosis of cancer motivated him to dedicate his life to charity work. (more…)

Somali government on Wednesday evacuated 151 migrants from Libya who had been held in areas controlled by militia. (more…)

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta held talks on Wednesday with visiting Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo focusing on security issues, the presidency said. (more…)

A Malian migrant hailed as a hero after mounting a daring rescue to save a small boy dangling from a balcony in Paris is to be made a French citizen. (more…)

"Please tell the boss that I am stuck in traffic,” the woman sitting next to me entreats the person on the line’s receiving end. (more…)

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has urged troops from two rival provinces to halt their fire after heavy clashes in a disputed northern border region left several dead. (more…)

Fifty dead bodies were recovered after a boat sank on a river in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, according to an official report delivered to the AFP on Friday. (more…)