New York, US (PANA) ? The UN Secretary-General?s Special Representative and head of UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), Mr. Nicholas Kay, on Thursday strongly condemned a violent and cowardly att...

A cyclone that hit Somalia's north-eastern Puntland region is known to have killed 140 people, but the number could reach 300, the government says.

Somalia's government declares the region of Puntland hit by a cyclone a disaster area, amid unconfirmed reports that about 300 people have died.

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Botswana leads the list of the 10 least corrupt nations in Africa while Somalia remains at the top of the continent's most corrupt, according to the Corruption Perceptions Index...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Tanzania beat Somalia 1-0 on Sunday to lead Group B in their second match of the GOtv Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup match at the Nyayo National Stadium, Nairobi, the Kenyan capita...

The Somali Islamist al-Shabab movement has said it carried out an attack on a shopping centre in Nairobi in retaliation for Kenyan military operations in Somalia.

[African Union]Ambassador Ahmed Abdisalam Haji Adam, today, 7 October 2013, presented his letters of credence to Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) as the new...

Donors pledge 1.8bn euros ($2.4bn; £1.5bn) to help Somalia recover from more than two decades of conflict, by promoting peace and development.

[Deutsche Welle]US special forces have captured a wanted al Qaeda operative in Libya. According to the New York Times, Navy SEALs also launched a raid in Somalia in retaliation for the Nairobi Westgate...

US special forces targeted a senior leader of the al-Shabab Islamist group in a raid in Somalia, US officials are quoted as saying by American media.