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Puntland and Galmudug forces withdrew from Galkaayo town Friday afternoon signaling a major milestone to the UN brokered peace deal signed last week with leaders from both sides pledging to…

Six delegates escaped death by a whisker while two people among them son of the region’s president and a woman were injured in deadly exchange of fire in Jowhar following…

Mandera has teamed up with World Bank to vaccinate 700,000 livestock against foot-and-mouth and pneumonia. The diseases are usually spread during the dry season due to movement of animals from…

Somalia’s interior minister, Abdirahman Mohamed Odawaa has made a comeback to the House after garnering 46 votes out of the possible 51. His opponent Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed managed five votes.…

A brief confrontation between Puntland and Galmudug forces in Galkaayo has been reported. Prime Minister Abdirashid Ali Sharmake, Puntland President Abdiweli Ali Gaas and his counterpart President Abdikarim Guled and…

By Reuters A Somali-American man in Minnesota was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison for conspiring to aid the Islamic State militant group, local media reported. The man,…

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s closest allies among them former justice minister Farah Abdulkadir secured a return today to the August House bolstering the President’s candidature as the November 30 poll draws…

Kenya destroyed some 5,250 illegal firearms by fire on Tuesday as part of efforts to fight crimes like cattle rustling, carjackings and to eliminate threats from terrorism. The burning destroyed…

Kenya’s interior minister says the government has extended by six months its deadline for sending home at least 280,000 Somali refugees to close the world’s largest refugee camp in Kenya’s…