NAIROBI, Kenya mdash; Twenty-two people were killed in overnight attacks by gunmen on the Kenyan coast, the Kenya Red Cross said Sunday. Al-Qaida-linked militants claimed responsibility but Kenyan offi...

[AlertNet]Kenya should stop rounding up vulnerable urban refugees and readmit those whose lives are at risk after being deported to Somalia, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday....

[Shabelle]An intense confrontation which resulted in severe fatalities such as casualties and losses erupted between co-allied Somali National Army soldiers and African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM...

[Shabelle]Several people were killed when a powerful suicide car bomb exploded near Somalia's parliament in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police and witnesses said....

5 July 2014 Last updated at 18:38 BST At least four people have been killed by a suicide car bomb near Somalia's parliament in Mogadishu. The Islamist militant group al-Shabab have reportedly praised t...

Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab said it has attacked an army convoy across the border in Kenya and killed several soldiers....

MI5 faces claims that it has been complicit in torture as recently as this February, after a former British resident told how he was beaten by Egyptian security forces working closely with the UK. Ahme...

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.