The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) launched sustained overnight airstrikes targeting Al-Shabaab militants following an attack at Khorof Kharar Police Post in Wajir on Saturday morning.
According to a security official, the airstrikes were directed at possible hideouts of the militants...
June 15: Technical teams continue meetings
Following the first day of talks between Somalia and Somaliland, technical teams led by the respective leaders have entered talks as of today, according to reports.
This was followed by direct talks between technical teams...
An Ethiopian member of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping force patrols the streets of Kismayo on November 15, 2016. SIMON MAINA / AFP
Firefights have broken out between federal Somali soldiers and troops from the Jubaland region. A heightened confrontation...
Pastoralists and their livestock have been cut off by river floods in southern Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region, forcing them to use boats to transport their animals.
Ahmed Hussein told Radio Ergo that he was having to buy rice chaff to...
Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki (left), Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (right) and Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed.
Relations in the Horn of Africa are complex and complicated. They are characterised by deeply ingrained rivalries between Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia in a conflict-ridden...
Somalia's president faced a leadership crisis Monday as his term ended with no clear path toward elections, and an alliance of opposition parties declared they no longer recognised his authority.
The Horn of Africa nation was supposed to choose the...
by Avv. Abdiwhid Abdullahi Warsame
I caught wind of the unfortunate passing of former Somali President Ali Mahdi Mohamed on the 9th of March 2021 due to COVID-19 complications in Nairobi, Kenya. Seeing as though we all have a limited...
By Matthew Costard
For many years it was not possible to register trademarks in Somalia, an east African state with a population of roughly 16 million. This was a consequence of a brutal civil war that started in 1991 and...
An ambulance carrying wounded from a suicide bombing attack at a military base arrives at the Madina Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
At least 15 people were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bombing as recruits...
The trainees were drawn from various police stations in Jowhar and included 15 women officers
JOWHAR, Somalia, August 26, 2021/ -- Fifty-six officers of the HirShabelle State Police have undergone a five-day training on Public order management.
The trainees were drawn...