By Richard Lough and Abdi Sheikh
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's security forces need rebuilding to cement gains made by foreign troops against Islamist militants, but how to pay and arm recruits, tackle corruption and prevent rebels infiltrating their ranks remain...
Al Shabaab terrorists operating in Somalia have been "defeated as a fighting force" after decades of creating havoc, according to the country's president.
But President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has warned that the extremists are an international network with links to...
Nairobi, May 2 (IANS) Having kept the Danish coaster -- M/V Leopard -- in their custody for two years, Somali pirates have released it along with six crew members, a Kenyan maritime official said Wednesday.
The vessel which was captured...
Not yet named but much loved by watchful parents, a newly born baby boy is a small symbol of change: a birth, not a death for Somalia's key war hospital.
After more than two decades of bloody civil war, Somalia...
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CPJ to launch 2013 Impunity Index
New York, April 30, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists will release its 2013 Impunity Index,...
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By JASON STRAZIUSO
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under, according to a new report to be published...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist militants killed Somalia's deputy chief prosecutor and will target more judiciary staff while the government tries to reform the courts, a militant spokesman said on Friday.
The al Shabaab rebel group, which is linked to al...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A most-wanted American jihadi inSomalia said Friday that the leader of Islamic extremist rebels in Somali was starting a civil war, just hours after an assassination attempt left the Alabama native with a neck wound.
Omar Hammami posted on Twitter...
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By Richard Lough
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - In a sign of growing optimism thatSomalia is winning a struggle against pirates and al Qaeda-linked insurgents, Britain opened an embassy on Thursday in a set of four...