The manager of a radio station in Somalia tells the BBC he is in hiding after the authorities took it off air, accusing it of spreading hate messages.

[IRIN]Mombasa -More than 21 Islamic clerics have been gunned down in Kenya's southeastern port city of Mombasa over the past two years, according to the human rights group Haki Africa. All but one of t...

New York, US (PANA) - Two senior UN humanitarian agencies on Friday called for action to stop a potential famine in South Sudan which, they say, is being allowed to happen, just as it occurred in Somal...

[VOA]Nairobi -Human Rights Watch is accusing some soldiers with the African Union Mission to Somalia [AMISOM] of abusing their power to rape and exploit women and girls on their bases in Mogadishu....

African Union (AU) troops have raped women and girls seeking medical aid or water from their bases in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, a rights group says.

African Union soldiers raped and sexually exploited women and girls on their peacekeeping bases in the capital, Mogadishu, Human Rights Watch has claimed. Some African Union troops in Somalia sexually ...

Islamist militant group al-Shabab is battling the UN-backed government in Somalia, but its press office has time to stay in regular contact with foreign journalists.

The Somali Islamist militant group Al Shabaab has confirmed that its leader Ahmed Godane was killed in a US air strike last week and named a new leader, promising ''great distress'' to its enemies. US ...

The US confirmed that the leader of al-Shabaab, Somalia?s jihadi group, was killed in a targeted air strike earlier this week. (© The Financial Times Limited 2014)...

Somalian Islamists al-Shabab name Sheikh Ahmad Umar as successor to leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was killed in a US recent air strike.