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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…)

Police are looking for a Somali national who flew to the country on September 24 after he had been released from a Mogadishu jail in unclear circumstances. (more…)

Rescue efforts ongoing as classroom collapse in Kenyan capital, Nairobi, kills at least 7 students, medics say.
At least seven students have been killed and scores wounded after a classroom collapsed in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, according to emergency services. (more…)

At least 20 Somali government soldiers were killed and 18 others were wounded when al-Shabab raided a military base south of Mogadishu, security sources told VOA Somali. (more…)

Interpol has warned the East African Police Chiefs Co-operation Organisation to brace for terrorism, money laundering, carjacking, drug and human trafficking, smuggling of weapons, poaching and piracy. (more…)

For 10 years, Sufi fighters have fought al-Shabab and managed to retake the group's strongholds in the windswept plains of central Somalia. (more…)

MOGADISHU— At least two people were killed and four others injured on Wednesday evening in a car bomb blast in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police and witnesses said. (more…)

U.S. Africa Command announced Tuesday that two suspected al-Shabaab militants were killed by a U.S. airstrike in the country's Lower Juba province after attacking a Somali government patrol. (more…)