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A court in Garowe, in northern Somalia, Saturday sentenced five male teenagers to death for the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in Galkayo last month, officials said. (more…)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A nearly day-long siege in the heart of Somalia's capital ended with all of the al-Shabab extremist attackers killed, police said Friday, as the death toll was at 24 and expected to climb. (more…)

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bombing targeting a Mogadishu hotel by the Islamist group Al Shabaab on Thursday killed at least 10 people and destroyed buildings in the Somali capital’s busiest street, police said. (more…)

Johannesburg: The United States military says it has killed 20 fighters from the al-Shabab extremist group with an airstrike in central Somalia, a day after another airstrike in the area killed 35 (more…)

MOGADISHU----Gunmen in Somalia opened fire on Monday on a team of roadside workers, killing eight and wounding several others, witnesses said. (more…)

Two al-Shabaab militants were killed in four US airstrikes in Somaliaon Saturday, US Africa Command said in a statement. (more…)

Somali jihadists Al-Shabaab have claimed killing lawmaker Osman Elmi Boqore in Mogadishu on Saturday evening. (more…)

An official in Burundi says the withdrawal of 1 000 Burundian soldiers from the African Union regional force in Somalia has begun. (more…)

Somali Deputy Attorney General was shot dead by two armed men while driving a car in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, officials said late Wednesday. (more…)

MOGADISHU -- Somalia and the UN have launched the UN Secretary-General's Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) to help support the country's peace building with focus on State-building projects. (more…)