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At least 10 Somali government soldiers and 16 militants were killed Wednesday when Islamist group al-Shabab attacked two military bases in Somalia's Lower Shabelle region. (more…)

Operation against group took place near Leego town located in northwest of Mogadishu. (more…)

Gunmen have killed a TV and radio journalist in Somalia's Afgooye district, police say. (more…)

The East African region could be on the verge of a food crisis if huge swarms of locusts devouring crops and pasture are not brought under control, a top UN official has told the BBC. (more…)

Observant policemen and a trace of foundation on the earphones he was wearing meant the game was up for Ibrahim M.'s attempt to illegally go to the United Kingdom. The young Somalian man was at Esenboğa Airport in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Feb. (more…)

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The current leaders of Somalia and the breakaway territory of Somaliland have met for the first time in the latest diplomatic effort by Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister. (more…)

Two men who gang-raped and killed a 12-year-old girl in Somalia were publicly executed by a firing squad this morning that was chosen by the girl's father.  (more…)

Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo is supposed to face an election test later this year, assuming the planned calendar goes as scheduled. (more…)

Somalia descended into state failure in 1991, and famine quickly followed as warlords fought over the remnants of the country’s infrastructure. (more…)

Kenya started the year with deadly terrorist attacks — again. Al-Shabab, the Islamist insurgent group based in Somalia, successfully attacked Kenya’s Manda Bay military base in early January. The attack killed three American military personnel who were based there. It was less than a year after al-Shabab’s attack on the...