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The president of Somalia has told VOA that his government will not hold popular elections next year, due to continuing…

NAIROBI: The U.N. envoy for Somalia Wednesday insisted the country was making progress, a day after the government said elections…

28 July 2015 – The Security Council today authorized the Member States of the African Union to maintain the deployment…

German authorities suspect that an Islamist who once lived in Germany carried out a car bombing on a hotel in…

Press Statements – July 28, 2015. Whereas THE FORUM FOR UNITY AND DEMOCRACY (FUD) is a forum and political umbrella…

Mogadishu (AFP) – War-torn Somalia will not be able to hold full elections due next year, lawmakers said Tuesday, although…

ADDIS ABABA: US President Barack Obama said that his government would not consider sending troops to Somalia, as he sees…

Addis Ababa (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Monday praised key African ally Ethiopia for its fight against Shebab…

The leader of Somali terror-group Al-Shabaab has urged Muslims in east-Africa to rise up against the ‘evil Christians’. In an online…

China on Monday strongly condemned a terrorist attack in Somalia in which a security guard at China’s embassy was killed…

At least 13 people were killed in Somalia’s capital Sunday when a car bomb exploded outside a hotel that hosts…

At least 10 people have been killed in a huge bomb explosion at a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu.…

The Pentagon has quietly expanded its military operations in Somalia against Al-Shabaab militants in recent weeks. U.S. drone strikes are…

The future of Somalia remains uncertain because of, among others, the mismatch between the political choice, structure, and direction articulated…

Presidential tours are always expensive, but especially so when the country being visited is, like Kenya, a frequent target for…

Kenyan troops on Wednesday said they had killed 24 Al-Shabaab terrorists in a battle near Bardhere, a key town under…

What may be the world’s oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating…

KENYA-led African Union (AMISOM) troops and the Somalia National Army (SNA) have captured a key town in southern Somalia from militant…

PRESS RELEASE (For Immediate Release) AMISOM refutes allegations of civilian deaths against AMISOM troops in Marka Town 21st July 2015- The…

19th July 2015- A military offensive against Al Shabaab in the Bay and Gedo regions of Somalia, codenamed ‘Operation Jubba…