Unidentified gunmen thought to be Al Shabaab assassins have shot and killed a civilian man in Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Tuesday morning, witnesses said. (more…)
Woman’s body discovered during search for missing woman Naima Hassan
POLICE have declared there were no suspicious circumstances to a Brisbane woman’s death, after her body was found on the city’s bayside yesterday. (more…)
Mogadishu restricts movement of trucks, tankers after attacks
MOGADISHU: Somali authorities imposed a daytime ban on Monday on the movement of large trucks and road tankers inside the capital Mogadishu in an attempt to improve security following a wave of devastating attacks by militants. (more…)
Militants who killed 23 at Mogadishu hotel used intelligence service ID cards
Five attackers from Islamist al-Shabaab group stormed hotel in NISA uniforms after a truck bomb destroyed the front entrance. (more…)
South Africa’s David Miller blasts T20 record, 35-ball century to destroy Bangladesh
DAVID Miller’s world-record breaking innings of 101 off 36 balls has given South Africa clean sweeps over Bangladesh in all three formats with an 83-run win in the final Twenty20 on Sunday (more…)
Mogadishu blasts: Car bombs kill at least 25 in Somali capital
Two deadly car bombs and a nearly 12-hour siege have killed at least 25 people in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, in an attack claimed by the Al Shabaab militant group. (more…)
Man jailed in Frankfurt for fighting with Somali Islamists
A Frankfurt court sentenced a Somali-born German national to two years and ten months in jail on Friday, for joining the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group and fighting alongside the Islamists in his native country. (more…)
UAE delivers medical supplies to Mogadishu
The aid is one of the humanitarian responses from the UAE to help in the aftermath of the bombing. (more…)
Husband of Australian teacher shot dead in Kenya arrested with second man
The estranged husband of Australian teacher Gabrielle Maina has been arrested after the mother-of-two was shot and killed in Nairobi last week, according to media reports. (more…)
Somali diaspora: Blast won’t stop effort to rebuild homeland
Like many Somalis displaced by decades of civil war, Mohamoud Elmi felt he had a duty to use what he learned in America to help rebuild his homeland. (more…)