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Kitui Governor Charity Ngilu has asked security agencies to end the invasion by Somali pastoralists into resident's farms in Mutha ward, Kitui South sub-county. (more…)

Lawyers representing 92 Somalis who sued the U.S. government for a botched deportation flight say they lack privacy when speaking to their clients in a Florida detention center. (more…)

BERLIN: The German military will stop participating in a European Union training mission in Somalia at the end of March, a Foreign Ministry official said on Thursday, expressing frustration at the pace of progress. (more…)

More than a year after United Nations peacekeepers were condemned by their own auditors for heedlessly dumping sewage,  untreated waste water, garbage, medical waste and other dangerous materials in a wide array of war-torn countries, the same horrific health practices have surfaced again, in battered Somalia. (more…)

MOGADISHU -- Somalia and the United Nations on Wednesday launched a major innovation challenge to seek ideas from young Somalis on improving the living conditions of people in internally displaced persons (IDPs) communities.
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Over the past 25 years, Somalia has experienced a cycle of protracted droughts, culminating in the most recent one in 2016 and 2017, when rains failed for three seasons in a row. (more…)

Four-year-old Faylow is one of the 160,000 children treated for severe malnutrition by UNICEF in Somalia in 2017. Photo: UNICEF Somalia-Makundi (more…)

(Nairobi) – Somali security forces using bulldozers have demolished dozens of informal settlements in Mogadishu since late December 2017, leaving thousands homeless. (more…)

Addis Ababa - Drone strikes by the United States military are "wiping out" Shabaab militants in Somalia, the head of the African Union mission in the country told AFP in an interview on Friday (more…)