UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Al-Shabab extremists in Somalia remain “a potent threat” to regional peace and are now manufacturing home-made explosives, expanding their revenue sources and infiltrating government institutions, U.N. experts say. (more…)

Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo in his MA Thesis entitled U.S. Strategic Interest in Somalia: From Cold War Era to War on Terror, submitted to Buffalo University, 2009; says in page 2: “the two smaller agricultural tribes Digil & Rahanweeyn make up only 20% of Somali population”. Then in page 6 Farmajo...

Shortly before dawn on Aug. 5, 2017, an explosion tore through Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, nearly killing the mosque’s imam, Mohamed Omar. (more…)

Fishermen go about their business in Watamu, Kilifi County, in 2013. Two Tanzanians died during a fishing expedition in Watamu, in coastal Kenya. Tanzanian brothers drown while fishing at Kenyan coast (more…)

MOGADISHU-- Two senior members of the al-Shabab militant group on Wednesday surrendered to Somali government forces in the southern region of Gedo, a military official said. (more…)

Kenya was last evening miffed about Somalia’s reported filing of a complaint at the UN aviation agency claiming Nairobi had violated Mogadishu’s airspace, though the aircraft in question belonged to the Horn of Africa country. (more…)

Twenty-six years ago, U.S. Forces from Task Force Ranger set out to capture the Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aideed in the Somali city of Mogadishu. (more…)

The United States Embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia, has reopened after being closed for 28 years, officials said Wednesday. (more…)

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels on Monday launched two attacks on U.S. and European military targets, officials said. (more…)

Somalia President Mohamed Farmajo returns to Mogadishu to face the problem of whether to turn the capital into a federal state. (more…)