Somalia: Court clears woman convicted in rape case
A Somali appeals court on Sunday dropped charges against a woman who alleged she was raped by government security forces and had been convicted of ...

Somalia: Suicide bomber and diner killed in attack
A suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a seaside restaurant in Somalia's capital on Friday, killing himself and one diner, a police official ...
Somalis using fake passports on Turkish airline
Somalis aided by human traffickers are using fake passports to board the Mogadishu-to-Istanbul flight as a way to flee to Europe, a Somali official ...

USAID chief visits Mogadishu, says US is committed
Signaling the latest step forward in rapidly strengthening U.S.-Somalia relations, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development ...
7 killed in mosque attack in Kenya's east
Gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles opened fire at a mosque in Kenya's east, killing seven people, an official said Thursday, in an attack less than two ...

Minnesota congressman arrives in Mogadishu
A U.S. congressman visited Somalia's capital on Tuesday, the first visit in years by a member of Congress to what until recently was considered one ...
Somalia: $50,000 for info on journalists' killers
The Somali government is offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to the convictions of those killing journalists, the country's prime ...
Somalia: Blast on beachfront restaurant kills 1
A Somali police officer says a car bomb detonated by remote control has killed one person and wounded two others in Somalia's capital. Mohamed Hassan ...
Somali militants claim to execute Kenyan soldier
Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia claimed Friday that they have executed a Kenyan soldier after the Nairobi government failed to meet their demands
Somalia : Journalist freed but may face charges
A Somali journalist was freed after being detained without charges for more than a week for speaking out against the imprisonment of a fellow reporter
Group: Somali journalist detained without trial
A Somali journalist is being detained without charge in Somalia for speaking out against the imprisonment of a fellow reporter, said an international ...
Report: AU troops in Somalia killed 7 civilians
A joint Somali-African Union investigation into a case of civilian casualties found that African Union troops killed seven civilians, including five ...
Bomb attack in Somalia targets police commander
Police in Somalia say a suicide car bomb attack that targeted a senior police commander in a central Somali town killed only the bomber. Ali Abdinor, ...
Africa pirates kidnap 3 sailors in Gulf of Guinea
Pirates off the coast of Nigeria and Cameroon attacked a ship and kidnapped three sailors, including two Russians, in the latest assault on shippers ...
French tanker, crew hijacked off Ivory Coast freed
A French tanker seized by pirates off Ivory Coast and its crew of 17 sailors have been released, its owner said Wednesday, though two workers suffered ...
Somali court: Jail for rape victim, reporter
A Mogadishu court on Tuesday handed down one-year prison sentences to a woman who said she was raped by security forces and a reporter who interviewed ...

French tanker hijacked off Ivory Coast; 17 held
Pirates hijacked a French-owned fuel tanker off Ivory Coast, abducting 17 sailors in the latest attack by criminal gangs targeting the ships to steal ...
Somalia: Bomb kills 1 African Union soldier
An official in Somalia says a roadside bomb has killed an African Union soldier. Floribert Biyereke, a spokesman for Burundian troops, said one ...
Somali govt charges woman who says she was raped
The Somali government has charged a woman who has said she was raped by security forces, according to an international human rights group, which says ...

Suicide bomber kills 2 at Somali president's villa
A suicide bomber Tuesday detonated explosives outside the prime minister's home in Somalia's presidential palace compound, killing two people, ...
UK: Specific threat to Westerners in Somaliland
British citizens should immediately leave the breakaway Somaliland region of Somalia because of a specific threat to Westerners, British diplomats ...
Report: UN doc links Britons to Somalia kidnapping
The Times of London says a secret section of a United Nations report has linked British citizens with Somali piracy. The newspaper says that a 2012 ...

Somali government arrests 3 over scholarship fraud
Three officials have been arrested for mismanaging a scholarship scheme that sends Somali students to Turkey, Somalia's education minister said ...

Somali militants' Twitter shut after death threat
Twitter on Friday suspended the account used by Somalia's al-Qaida-linked militant group after the insurgents used the micro-blogging site to post a ...
Groups call for Somali gov't to release journalist
Rights groups on Wednesday called for the Somali government to release a journalist arrested by police for interviewing a woman who said she was raped ...