When she was a young girl, Edna Adan Ismail?s mother and grandmother circumcised her in a traditional ceremony while her father, a doctor, was away. That evening, he returned home, enraged at what had ...

Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) ? Three people including two UN staff members and one contractor have been wounded after the Al Shabaab militants shelled a UN Compound and several rounds of mortar ammunition...

A chief finance controller#160;for the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group has been killed in an ambush on a meeting of its fighters in southern Somalia, the African Union...

The United States is cutting hundreds of its troops in Africa as it focuses on countering threats from Russia and China, BBC News reports. Around 700 counterterrorism troops will be removed over the ne...

Leaders of Kenya's northeastern counties met this week and vowed to fight against al-Shabab, the Somalia-based militant group that has terrorized the region since 2011. One troubling question hung over...

New York, US (PANA) - Even though Somalia has made ?huge strides? in political and economic transformation, the country continues to grapple with terrorism, the nation?s Foreign Minister told world lea...

Decides to Establish an Ongoing Independent Mechanism on the Most Serious International Crimes and Violations of International Law Committed in Myanmar since 2011; Adopts the United Nations Declaration...

New York, US (PANA) - Strongly condemning twin suicide attacks in Baidoa, southwestern Somalia, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated the Organization?s support and solidarit...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan security forces are continuing with a manhunt for an Al Shabaab operative from Somalia, who was behind this week's terror attack against teachers in the North Eastern reg...

Nairobi, September 21, 2018--Police in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in Somalia, should rigorously investigate the killing of Abdirisak Said Osman, a reporter and photographer with the privately o...