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Eugene A. Cernan, the last astronaut to leave his footprints on the surface of the moon, has died, NASA said Monday. His family confirmed the news in a statement Monday,…

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has asked member states for at least 9 000 more troops to enhance peacekeeping and stabilisation operations as well as intensifying the fight…

Delegates including local officials and traditional elders will be dispatched to Mahas town to intervene and resolve the renewed clashes in some areas of Hiraan region, the administration said. Speaking…

                  The Burundian government has said it will start the process to withdraw its troops from the African Union (AU) force fighting Al-Shabaab…

Using a stone, Ahmed Ali Hassan scraped away at the side of the container truck until he made a small hole, and putting his parched mouth to it, gasped for…

The registration of candidates vying for the speaker post of the Upper House is set to start in Mogadishu today. Mohamed Osman Farah, the chairman of a newly formed committee…

Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) forces have impounded thousands of fake dollars and arrested several suspects in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. The detectives arrested the kingpins in  a covert operation…

Unidentified gunmen shot dead two police officers in Bossaso town of Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland state on Monday night. Eyewitness who sought anonymity said two men armed with pistols killed the officers.…

Twenty-seven inmates were killed in a Brazilian prison riot that broke out on Saturday, adding to chaos in a penitentiary system in which some 140 inmates have died in gang…