A Somali court has handed down jail sentences to a woman who said she was raped, and to the journalists who reported her story.
Security forces may be trying to silence both rape survivors and the organisations that assist them.
A tropical cyclone is feared to have killed as many as 300 people in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region, the local government says.
After receiving evidence that al-Shabab is planning attacks in the country, Ethiopia has put its security forces on heightened alert, say officials.
A drone attack on Somalia’s al-Shabab has left a top suicide bomb-maker for the rebel group dead, say government officials.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a small restaurant in a city north of the capital on Saturday, killing at least 12 others, police said.
Uganda has been on high alert over fears of an attack similar to the bloody mall assault by Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters in neighbouring Kenya.
Belgium has arrested a suspected Somali pirate leader said to have earned millions of dollars in ransom payments operating off the East African coast.
An alleged senior member of al-Qaeda has been captured in Libya after US forces launched raids in the country and Somalia over the weekend.
Militant group al-Shabab, who have claimed responsibility for the attack on Westgate mall, have threatened to step up militant attacks against Kenya.
The terror attack at Westgate mall is the latest manifestation of the tangled ties between Kenya and its anarchic Horn of Africa neighbour Somalia.
Britain’s top diplomat in Kenya has said the arrest of a Briton following the Westgate mall shooting is not significant for investigations.
Nicholas Kay, UN special representative for Somalia, says troops in the East African country require more resources to combat al-Shabab.
At least 18 people were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday when two blasts ripped through a busy parking lot next to a restaurant.
Humanitarian aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières is pulling out of the country, saying the threat of deadly violence has become intolerable.
This is the first such execution in a country where those who kill media workers often evade justice.
The UN has voiced fears about a new media law in Somalia only days after experts sounded the alarm over corruption in the country’s new government.
The government has demanded that Kenyan troops stationed in Kismayo as part of an AU force be replaced, accusing them of backing militia soldiers.
Denel has released the names and images of the South African employees who have been killed after an attack on a United Nations facility in Somalia.
Two South Africans have died in an al-Shabab attack on a United Nations compound in Somalia on Tuesday.
Somalia’s al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab insurgents have shot and blasted their way into the UN compound in Mogadishu, leaving eight people dead.
Africa’s leaders should also do some serious reflection on why they haven’t made sufficient progress on human rights, writes Tiseke Kasambala.
A suicide bomber hit a convoy of cars carrying Qatari officials through the centre of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday.
The South African government has expressed shock at the recent violent attacks in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
A Somali woman who said she was raped by state security forces and a journalist who interviewed her have both been sentenced to a year in jail.
Unknown gunmen have shot dead a Somali radio producer, the first journalist to be killed this year, said a Somali radio station editor.
As a way of acknowledging the east African government, US President Barack Obama has met Somalia’s new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
Al-Shabab extremists in Somalia say they have executed a French agent who they held captive since 2009.
Al-Shabab insurgents have warned France of "bitter consequences" to a failed raid in Somalia which left two French soldiers and 17 "terrorists" dead.
French military helicopters have attacked a base belonging to al Shabaab insurgents in southern Somalia to rescue a French secret agent.
Iman Hassan reflects on her trip to Nairobi, and her dismay at finding that she and other Somalis are no longer welcome in her home country.
Somalia’s al-Shabaab fighters briefly took control of a small town on the border with Kenya in a battle that left at least 12 people dead.