Kenya plans to launch a military offensive against Islamist militants, who have set up bases in a remote forest at the northern tip of its Indian Ocean coastline bordering Somalia, a police official sa...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) ? The attack on Friday on the position of Burundian contingent of the African peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM) claimed the lives of 8 soldiers and injured 19 others, a...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The United States has given US$6 million additional life-saving humanitarian assistance for those fleeing the conflict in Yemen and seeking refuge in Djibouti and Somalia. So...

Fighters from the al-Shabab militant Islamist group overrun an African Union military base in southern Somalia inflicting heavy casualties, witnesses tell the BBC.

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Dozens of African Union (AU) troops were killed Friday in a dawn raid on the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) Base situated in Leego town, 130 km south of Mogadishu, when an Al S...

Scotland Yard says it has begun an investigation into reports that at least 50 girls were taken from the UK to Somalia for female genital mutilation.

At least two senior commanders from the Islamist militant group al-Shabab have been killed in a drone strike in south-west Somalia, residents say.

Il portavoce Mwenda Njoka ha sottolineato che nell'attacco del drone, avvenuto alle due del mattino nel sud della Somalia, tra Jungal e Bardhere, sono rimasti uccisi "quattro capi" del gruppo islamista...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya?s Interior Ministry said 51 Al Shabaab militants were killed in a major drone offensive in Somalia?s Gedo region but a key suspect in the Garissa University killings, Moha...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - To enhance security and keep away cross-border terrorists, Kenya is to build a 700-km wire fence, tagged the Great Wall, along its common border with Somalia, the home of Al Sha...