A huge consignment of charcoal originating from Somalia has arrived at the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr, a Somali official at the United Nations told the VOA’s Somali service on Monday. (more…)

MORE than 10 000 children have been killed while thousands have been forcibly recruited into the ranks of government and rebel forces in war torn countries over the past year. (more…)

A suicide bomber drove a car into a Western military convoy in Mogadishu on Monday, killing two people and injuring four. (more…)

Even though Somalia has made “huge strides” in political and economic transformation, the country continues to grapple with terrorism, the nation’s Foreign Minister told world leaders gathered at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday. (more…)

Somalia's finance minister says World Bank grants to the government are a sign the country has "trustable leadership" again after decades of chaos and corruption. (more…)

Four soldiers have been arrested in Somalia after a nine-year-old schoolgirl was shot dead in the capital, Mogadishu, police say. (more…)

MOGADISHU-- Unknown gunmen have murdered a Somali journalist in central Somali town of Galkayo in the latest attack targeting media workers in the Horn of Africa nation, union officials said on Wednesday. (more…)

Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre has said that his government would not accept foreign mediation between the member states and the federal government. (more…)

Nairobi is East Africa’s wealthiest city and the sixth in Africa after Durban, Cape Town, Cairo, Lagos and Johannesburg, a new report says. (more…)

MOGADISHU -- Suspected al-Shabab militants on Saturday launched an ambush at a checkpoint manned by government forces in Afgoye town about 30 km northwest of Mogadishu, police and witnesses said Saturday. (more…)