Fighter jets have been pounding a key base of Somalia's al-Qaeda linked Shebab, in the latest push by African Union troops against the insurgents, say the Islamists and witnesses....

New York, US (PANA) - A special UN defensive military force recommended by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to protect UN staff and facilities in Mogadishu, Somalia, was deployed on Sunday to shore up...

Syria could become a "failed state" similar to Somalia, former UN envoy to the country Lakhdar Brahimi warns.

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somali pirates have freed 11 crew members of a sunken ship, MV Albedo, seized in 2010, UN Special Envoy for Somalia Nicholas Kay has said. Society

[UN News]The top United Nations envoy in Somalia today called on the country's international partners to boost support to aid peacebuilding and humanitarian efforts there, while reaffirming that the wo...

Eleven sailors held hostage by Somali pirates for more than three years have been released, Somali and United Nations officials say. Abdi Yusuf Hassan, the interior minister of Somalia's Galmudug regio...

[IRIN]London -All over the world migrant workers are sending money home to their families. The money pays hospital bills and school fees, buys land, builds houses and sets up small businesses. The cash...

Kenya#039;s police chief David Kimaiyo has ordered the seizure of buses and taxis with tinted windows. The move was intended to prevent attacks by militant Islamists from neighbouring Somalia, he said....

New York,US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General?s Special Representative in Somalia, Mr. Nicholas Kay, on Monday condemned the murder of parliamentarian, Mr. Isaak Mohamed Rino, and called for the perpet...

[Garowe Online]The President of Somalia's Puntland Government Dr. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas has returned to warm welcome to the state capital of Garowe on Saturday, Garowe Online reports....