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Nairobi - In an unusual twist to conflicts verging on war, Somalia's weak government and powerful Islamist movement opened a verbal diplomatic battle Wednesday over the creation of a new national passport. (more…)

Somali government forces have regained control of a town on the border with Kenya after al-Shabaab militants stormed an army base there, causing heavy clashes in which at least 17 people died, the military says. (more…)

A sessions court in Mumbai on Friday sentenced 60 Somali men to seven-year prison term for a piracy attack on a merchant vessel in 2011. (more…)

Mogadishu -  A Somali police officer says four people are dead after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant in Baidoa town in southwestern Somalia. (more…)

Coming soon to Mogadishu: Somalia’s first fully-fledged innovation hub. (more…)

Forty-two Somali students drawn from different parts of the country were Wednesday awarded scholarships to study in various universities in China. (more…)

Traffic on the global payments network Swift has grown by 20.1% in East Africa over the past year, indicating an increase in trade flows with and within the region. (more…)

The presidency of Somalia’s Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo is only eight months old but already his administration faces its first crisis - and it is one of their own making. (more…)

Somalia's government has made an urgent request for "immediate military assistance" from the United States to prevent Islamist militants Al Shabaab from supplying uranium to Iran. (more…)

DUBAI -- Abdullah Ghurair Al-Qubaisi, Deputy Director-General of the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, met on Monday Othman Moussa Derar Shoroua, Djibouti Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to explore ways of developing commercial and investment cooperation between the Gulf Arab emirate and the East African state,...