WASHINGTON / MINNEAPOLIS — Four Somali-Americans won races for public office in local elections that took place around the U.S. on Tuesday. (more…)

MOGADISHU —  African Union peacekeeping troops will start withdrawing from Somalia next month, says the head of the AU mission in the country. (more…)

African Union troops in Somalia have launched an operation to flush out al-Shabab militants from the Lower Shabelle region and secure main supply routes in the area. (more…)

The editor-in-chief of a newspaper in southern Sweden has explained to The Local how a fake news story about a fictional rape was packaged up to look like it was published in the paper's name. (more…)

The leader of the Pro-Islamic State group in Somalia has survived U.S. airstrikes which targeted caves in a remote mountainous area in Puntland, the region’s president told VOA Somali. (more…)

The US army says it has conducted two separate air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in northeastern Somalia, killing several members of the group. (more…)

TEL AVIV, Israel — In a dusty detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, Tomas Yomani, an asylum seeker from Eritrea in East Africa, has been biding his time for nine months while under the watch of Israeli guards. (more…)

Thousands of Ethiopian troops enter Somalia to join new offensive against al-Shabab extremists. (more…)

Thousands of Ethiopian troops enter Somalia to join new offensive against al-Shabab extremists. (more…)

A Somali soldier on guard on the beach in the coast of Qaw, in Puntland, north-eastern Somalia on December, 18, 2016. (more…)