The United States has for the first time in recent years given details of its military presence inside Somalia, the BBC's Mark Doyle reports.

Operation Eagle, the latest attempt by Somalia and the African Union to drive out al Shabaab Islamic militants, has enjoyed early success. But will there be anyone to fill the vacuum once the militants...

The father of a US teenager who stowed away in a wheel well on a flight to Hawaii has said his son was unhappy at school and trying to return to Somalia.

New York, US (PANA) - The UN envoy in Somalia, Mr. Nicholas Kay, has welcomed the release on Saturday of sailors on a ship hijacked by Somali pirates nearly four years ago, and has called for the relea...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza Tuesday left Bujumbura for Mogadishu on a working visit to Somalia, the state radio reported. Politics

How Somalia's militants craft their media message

[Ethiopia Government]The Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) of Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, Brigadier General Samuel Omar Williams arrived in Mogadishu for his first visit to Somalia on Saturday (M...

[UN News]Poor rains, high food prices and ongoing conflict have intersected to push Somalia once gain to the brink of crisis, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said today, warn...

New York, US (PANA) - Somalia, Syria, Iraq, and the Philippines top the list of countries where journalists are murdered regularly and their killers go free. Society

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The 21,126 African troops deployed to Somalia by early January 2014 have launched the most ambitious military assault ever against the Somali Islamist militant group al-...