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Maymona Abdi, 28, and Karima Watts, 24, arrested in January, released in April. Two Canadian women freed from a prison in Somaliland say they endured extreme abuse "bordering on torture" while they were detained for two months overseas. (more…)

Kenya has suspended direct flights from Somalia's capital Mogadishu to Nairobi for security reasons but Somalia has asked for reconsideration, saying the decision was politically motivated. (more…)

The United Nations has elected several countries with poor women’s rights records to boards charged with promoting those rights -- leading one critic to compare the decision to “asking the fox to guard the chickens.” (more…)

Tension is high in northern Kenya after the killing of 11 people following a dispute over a watering point. (more…)

MOGADISHU,  -- Somali security forces apprehended four al-Shabab militants in an operation conducted last week in the capital, Mogadishu, officials said. (more…)

Even as federal forces were late last week deployed to contain ethnic violence in northern Ethiopia, there are reports of heated exchanges brewing between two regions in the country’s east. (more…)

Gunmen stormed a government building in Somalia’s capital after a suicide car bombing on Saturday, killing fifteen people including the country’s deputy labour minister, police said, in the latest attack by Islamic extremist fighters in the Horn of Africa nation. (more…)

MOGADISHU-- Somali government forces have vacated three military bases to protest non-payment of salaries, a move that may jeopardize years of security gains, officials and local residents said on Wednesday. (more…)

Rights group says it has evidence nearly two dozen civilians killed or wounded in US military air raids in Somalia. (more…)

Somali-born Abdi Sheikh Hassan says he never thought New Zealand would witness such horror as the Christchurch attacks. (more…)