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MOGADISHU-- The UN has warned of lowest cereal production in Somalia since the 2011 famine, threatening an already fragile food security situation in the country. (more…)

MOGADISHU -- About 2.1 million people in Somalia face acute food insecurity through December due to severe drought that has ravaged several parts of the country, the United Nations food agency said on Monday. (more…)

The death toll in Sunday's flash flooding in a national park in Kenya has increased to six and rescue teams are still looking for one tourist, Kenya's Wildlife Service said on Monday. (more…)

One morning in mid-August, the al-Shabab militant group launched a massive attack on a Somali government military base at the newly captured strategic town of Awdhegle in the Lower Shabelle region. (more…)

A US Democratic lawmaker has publicised a racist threat that she would be killed at the state fair by "a very capable person with a very big 'Gun'". (more…)

MOGADISHU-- The Somali security agency said Wednesday they are interrogating a senior al-Shabab leader behind recent attack that led to the death of former official of a regional administration in Mogadishu. (more…)

The Somali government has accused the Kenyan military of destroying mobile phone masts in the south of the country, where Kenyan troops are deployed in the fight against the Islamist militant group, al-Shabab. (more…)

Somali-based insurgent group al-Shabaab takes responsibility for attack killing former regional administration secretary (more…)

In the aftermath of thawing of relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea, border towns such as Serha have been a beehive of activity with reconstruction of infrastructure such as bridges and roads reconnecting the two countries. (more…)

MOGADISHU: Somalia’s southern state of Jubaland is under lockdown ahead of a tense election Thursday which has pitted regional authorities against Mogadishu and sparked tensions with neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. (more…)