A top Islamist in Somalia, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, arrives in the capital Mogadishu amid reports of a split in the al-Shabab group.

Humanitarian aid worth £480,000 - funded by UK taxpayers - was seized by al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia, the Department for International Development confirms.

[allAfrica]Washington, DC -The Sahel region of Africa, a wide expanse that spreads from Mauritania on the west coast to Somalia on the east - gets very little attention, except when the threat of Islam...

Two aid workers abducted nearly two years ago while working in Dadaab refugee camp are released in neighbouring Somalia.

A grenade attack kills at least 10 people in the north-east of Kenya, close to the Somalia and Ethiopia borders.

pSeven al-Qaeda-linked gunmen detonated a pickup truck rigged with explosives at the gate of the U.N. compound in Somalia?s capital Wednesday morning, launching a bombs-and-gunfire assault that saw mil...

Barclays bank is closing about 100 UK accounts of businesses that transfer cash to Somalia and elsewhere, over fears that they enable money laundering.

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Mogadishu -The Somali militant group al-Shabab said on Sunday its fighters had killed eight Kenyans, including policemen, in a cross-border raid and had taken two captives back in...

Two freed Kenyan hostages have an emotional reunion with their families, after being held captive for about 19 months by militant Islamists in Somalia.

pTwo days after he became a U.S. citizen, Abdiwali Warsame embraced the First Amendment by creating a raucous Web site about his native Somalia. Packed with news and controversial opinions, it rapidly ...