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A lull during fierce fighting gave Hassan Mohamud Mohamed time to hire a boy to wash the blood from his vehicle.
Islamist fighters in Somalia said on Friday that they seized food from the World Food Programme from markets in Mogadishu.
A Somali militant group with links to al-Qaeda on Monday announced it had banned three Christian aid agencies from its territory.
Four people wounded, including two African Union troops, in a suicide attack outside an AU base earlier Tuesday.
Gunmen have killed a top Somali judge who had sentenced many pirates and human traffickers to long jail terms, a minister said on Thursday.
Islamic insurgents fired mortars at Somalia’s airport as the president was boarding a plane on Thursday, sparking battles that killed about 20 people.
A deal to swap three hostages held by pirates with 23 prisoners accused of piracy was halted by Saudi authorities, officials said on Monday.
A Somali journalist says masked gunmen have killed the director of Somalia’s largest media company at a market in the country’s capital.
About 3 000 Somalis marched through the streets of the war-scarred capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, celebrating the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops.
Ahmed Dahir Suleyman is cagey as he talks about the global network that funds and supports piracy off the coast of Somalia.
Ten of Somalia’s 15 government ministers announced their resignations on Saturday.
Insurgents have battled troops allied to Somalia’s government in some of the worst fighting in the country in weeks, killing at least 20 people.
Ethiopian troops allied to Somalia’s shaky government shot dead 13 civilians after an explosion killed two soldiers on Wednesday, witnesses in south-western Somalia said. Witness…
Gunmen threw grenades at the home of the regional police chief in south-western Somalia, killing two of his grandchildren and a bodyguard while he escaped injury, authorities…
A suicide bomber drove a pickup truck filled with explosives into a Somali army base, killing himself and two others near a hotel where the prime minister set up temporary…
Gunmen released a cargo plane and its Russian crew that had been hijacked in northern Somalia, authorities said on Friday. Muse Gelle Yusuf, the governor of the northern Bari…
Somali rivals both claimed control of a disputed northern town on Tuesday after deadly clashes, and more fighting was feared. Tensions have been increasing in the normally calm…
An influential Somali radio station went off the air on Wednesday after two government soldiers threatened to pound the building with ”machine guns and anti-aircraft missiles”,…
Mohamed Hussein heard the grenade explode and he froze. He knew what was coming next, because he has been through it before: gunfire coming from every direction as soldiers…
At least eight people were killed in attacks in southern and central Somalia, during which four people were also wounded, witnesses said on Tuesday. In a one-hour gun battle…
