MOGADISHU-- The UN food agency said northeastern parts of Somalia experienced extreme weather in the past two days as a tropical storm made landfall. (more…)

Uganda suffers deadly landslides as tropical storm heading for the Somali coast raises fears of new floods. (more…)

Somali officials were surprised to hear Qatar dignitaries speaking unkindly about Turkey and suggesting that the government of Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed should wind down their cooperation with Ankara and throw all their efforts into a bolder relationship with Qatar. (more…)

WASHINGTON - Ten years ago on December 3, a suicide bomber attacked a graduation ceremony at Shamo Hotel, one of Mogadishu’s main hotels. (more…)

LONDON - Millions of people in southern and eastern Africa are facing emergency food insecurity partly caused by climate change, half of them children, according to the charity Save the Children. (more…)

MOGADISHU-- The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has reiterated its commitment to ensuring that Somalia holds peaceful parliamentary and presidential elections in 2020/2021. (more…)

Dr. Anisa Ibrahim, who came to the United States as a child refugee, this fall became medical director of a pediatric clinic in Seattle, Washington. (more…)

NAIROBI - Flash flooding has hit the small but strategic East African nation of Djibouti, where the government and United Nations said the equivalent of two years' rain fell in a single day. Several regional countries including Kenya are struggling after heavy rains, with more to come. (more…)

MINNEAPOLIS — A fire swept through a Minneapolis high-rise apartment building early Wednesday, killing five people and sending three others to the hospital, officials said. (more…)

MOGADISHU-- A public awareness forum held in Mogadishu on Tuesday called for an end to violence against women in conflict in Somalia. (more…)