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By U.S. accounts, it was a devastating airstrike against Islamic militants in Somalia, with more than 150 fighters killed in a training camp. But the weekend attack probably won’t diminish…

At least five Al-Shabaab commanders among them foreigners were killed in last week’s US drone strike in Raso camp Central Somalia, authorities in the region have said. Buluburde mayor in…

At least 4 civilians were seriously wounded in mortar attacks in Kismayo town in southern  in the Lower Jubba region, local Somali government officials and witnesses said Wednesday. Heavy explosions could…

Kenya has accused UN agencies of frustrating efforts to repatriate Somali refugees from Dadaab camp in northern Kenya. The country’s Interior Minister Joseph Nkaisery said Tuesday UN agencies and other…

At least three police officers have been killed in two separate bomb explosions in Mogadishu Wednesday morning, police sources have said. In the first attack few minutes to 7am local…

AMISOM Kenya Defence Forces have conducted a free medical camp, providing treatment to hundreds of residents in Dhobley, in AMISOM Sector 2. This was undertaken as part of the contingent’s…

The first batch of construction equipment of El Dahir-Erigavo road had reached Bossaso, Puntland’s main commercial capital. Consisting of heavy heavy vehicles, lorries and others construction equipments, the boatload of…

Prime minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharma’arke has on Tuesday opened a new building in which the official news agency SONNA is operating at…

Women in the lower echelons of society face the prospect of being overshadowed by established women movements in Somalia, a Somali based organisation, Act for Somalia has said. In a…