Violence has broken out again in Kenya’s northeast, with eight people shot and wounded, a day after security forces cracked down on rioters.
Somali piracy has fallen to a three-year low because of co-ordinated action by international navies and the enlistment of armed security guards.
They might have been driven out of Somalia’s second city, but Islamist militant group al-Shebab have a plan B. Nastasya Tay reports.
Islamist rebels said they shot dead a Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu on Saturday and threatened to kill every legislator in the country.
Two suicide bombers walked into a restaurant in central Mogadishu and killed at least 15 people on Thursday, police said.
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In new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s in-tray: a war, a government bereft of functioning institutions or a budget, and a looming food crisis.
Somalia’s new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has survived an assassination bid after bomb blasts – claimed by al-Shabab – rocked a Mogadishu hotel.
The country is gearing up for its elections amid allegations of corruption and intimidation.
Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked Shabab militants put on show the bodies of four "enemy" soldiers killed in combat in Kismayo, in southern Somalia.
The country will never be able to prevail unless the war ends. Nastasya Tay reports.
Painted signs, even of a policeman on a busy road, attest to growing trade and returning exiles in Somalia.
This election is a crucial turning point that could ‘seal the deal’ or see Somalia slide back into chaos.
A new nation is being created, almost unnoticed, in troubled Horn of Africa.