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Somalia detains US-trained commandos over ration theft

MOGADISHU: Somalia's government said it had suspended and detained several members of an elite, U.S.-trained commando unit for stealing rations donated by the United...

Once-in-a-century flooding swamps Somalia after drought

The United Nations has described floods that uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and neighbouring countries in East Africa following a historic...

Nine killed in restaurant attack in Somali capital

MOGADISHU: Nine people were killed in an attack claimed by al Shabaab militants at an upmarket restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday...

Somalia security forces end hotel siege claimed by Al-Shabaab

MOGADISHU: Somali security forces brought to an end the siege of a hotel in the capital Mogadishu, state media said Saturday, after Al-Shabaab militants...

Somalia says to introduce direct universal suffrage next year

MOGADISHU: Somalia's government and federal member states said Sunday that direct universal suffrage would be introduced with local elections set for June 2024, following...

Over one million people displaced in four months in Somalia: UN

NAIROBI: More than a million Somalis have been displaced within their own country in just over four months through a "toxic" mix of drought,...

Children dying in Somalia as food catastrophe worsens

More than 200,000 Somalis are suffering catastrophic food shortages and many are dying of hunger, with that number set to rise to over 700,000...

Four dead in Mogadishu hotel siege

MOGADISHU: At least four people were killed in an ongoing attack by Al-Shabaab insurgents who laid siege to a popular hotel in Somalia's capital...

Death toll from Somalia twin bombings climbs to 100: president

The number of people killed in an attack on Saturday at a busy intersection in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 100, President...

Car bombs explode at Somalia’s education ministry

Two car bomb explosions at Somalia's education ministry rocked the capital Mogadishu on Saturday and blew out windows of nearby buildings, witnesses and the...

Half a million Somali children face hunger in world’s worst famine

More than 500,000 Somali children under five are expected to suffer severe acute malnutrition and risk death from famine this year, a number unseen...

Plane crash-lands at Somalia airport

A passenger plane crash-landed at an airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, with no deaths reported and all those on board - more...

As hunger bites in Somalia, babies start to die

Hacked-off thorn branches encircle two mounds of earth heaped over the tiny bodies of Halima Hassan Abdullahi's twin granddaughters. Babies Ebla and Abdia lived...

Six people killed in blast at restaurant in Somalia’s capital

Six people were killed on Friday by a blast at a seaside restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, an ambulance service official told Reuters. "So far...

Somalia’s worst drought in four decades means millions need aid

It has not rained on Habiba Maow Iman's farm in southern Somalia for two years. Her animals are dead; her crops failed. Wrapped in a...

Four footballers killed in Somalia bus blast

Four local footballers in Somalia were killed when an explosion believed to have been caused by a bomb ripped through their bus on Friday,...

Ten killed in suicide bomb attack in Somali capital

“A suicide bomber blew up himself under trees where poor mothers sold tea, milk and (narcotic leaf) khat.”

At least 20 killed by suicide car bomb near restaurant in Somalia capital

At least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late on Friday, an emergency services official said.

Plane carrying coronavirus aid crashes in Somalia

A plane carrying aid supplies for use in the fight against the coronavirus crashed in Somalia’s southern Bay region on Monday

Somalia has invited Turkey to explore for oil in its seas

Turkey has been a major source of aid to Somalia following a famine in 2011 as Ankara seeks to increase its influence in the Horn of Africa
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