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/ 17 September 2011
Somalia has banned foreign aid workers and journalists from entering areas controlled by al-Shabaab insurgents, in fear of attacks on them.
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/ 1 September 2010
A Somali rebel group has told the Horn of Africa nation’s leader to quit power and said hardline Islamists had succeeded where government had failed.
Two explosions at a mosque in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday killed 39 worshippers, wounded scores more.
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/ 30 September 2009
Somalia’s al-Shabaab rebels said on Wednesday they would fight rival Hizbul Islam militants for control of the port of Kismayu.
Hardline Islamist insurgents in Somalia’s capital fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace and attacked AU peacekeepers on Saturday evening.