Fighting between the military and police backed by intelligence forces killed nine people in the Somali capital on Saturday, police said. (more…)
Somalia: In midst of bomb attacks and famine, African nation welcomes foreign writers for annual book fair
Long associated with pirates, famine and bombs, Somalia showed a different face to the world this week as it welcomed foreign writers for the first time to its annual book fair. (more…)
Somalia, Comoros are new African members of the UN world tourism body
Somalia and Comoros have gained entry into the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) as the 157th and 158th Member States and the 50th and 51st African countries to be admitted. (more…)
What is behind clashes in Ethiopia’s Oromia and Somali regions?
Thousands of people have fled Ethiopia's Somali region following deadly clashes in recent days between ethnic Somalis and Oromos. The BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal looks at the cause of the conflict and whether it can be stopped. (more…)
Somali journalist dies after suicide bomber targets café
Nairobi - Somali broadcast journalist Abdullahi Osman Moalim died yesterday from injuries sustained on September 10 when a suicide bomber attacked a café in Beldweyne where members of the press gather, Somalia's Minister of Information, Abdirahman Omar Osman, and the journalist's colleagues, told CPJ. (more…)
Doctors down tools in Mogadishu
Mogadishu - Doctors and nurses at an Austrian-funded maternity and paediatric hospital in the Somali capital went on strike on Monday after one of the doctors was kidnapped, a local medical officer said. (more…)
The Somali mother and son who have chosen to live on a high street bench for three years, despite council’s repeated attempts to rehouse them (including in TWO flats they turned down)
A Somali mother and son were evicted from their flat in Tooting, London, in 2014 for not paying their rent.Since then, the pair have been living on a bench on the busy Tooting High Street and sleep under tarpaulin.The council tried to rehome them but they turned down two-bedroom flats...
Passport row erupts in Somalia
Nairobi - In an unusual twist to conflicts verging on war, Somalia's weak government and powerful Islamist movement opened a verbal diplomatic battle Wednesday over the creation of a new national passport. (more…)
Somali army repels al-Shabaab after attack
Somali government forces have regained control of a town on the border with Kenya after al-Shabaab militants stormed an army base there, causing heavy clashes in which at least 17 people died, the military says. (more…)
Sixty Somali nationals sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment
A sessions court in Mumbai on Friday sentenced 60 Somali men to seven-year prison term for a piracy attack on a merchant vessel in 2011. (more…)