Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab overran and looted UN Mine Action Service compounds, witnesses said on Friday.
Somalia’s insurgent group al Shabaab introduced sharia law in Baidoa on Tuesday, a day after taking the town that had been a government stronghold.
Hard-line Islamist insurgents fought government troops in a central town after Ethiopia withdrew its last soldiers from Somalia, witnesses said.
The Somali government said Ethiopia completed its withdrawal on Monday after a more than two-year intervention to combat an Islamist movement.
An unidentified aircraft bombed an Islamist rebel stronghold in central Somalia on Thursday, witnesses said.
Heavily armed Islamist rebels have attacked the presidential palace and key installations in the Somali government’s Baidoa headquarters.
Three Somali civilians were killed and six others wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked the southern town of Baidoa, witnesses said, in what an official described as a…
Somali Prime Minister Nur Hasan Husein on Friday announced a new downsized Cabinet after weeks of consultations. ”I announce the fifteen ministers and five assistants of my…
Turmoil struck the Somali government on Tuesday as a fifth minister resigned in a power-sharing dispute a day after being appointed, and the president was urgently flown to a…
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi resigned on Monday after a long feud with the president that frustrated Western backers and split the government while it faced an Islamist…
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi has arrived in Baidoa to resign in front of the Parliament later on Monday following a lengthy political feud with President Abdullahi…
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi reshuffled his Cabinet on Wednesday, sacking three ministers as the government seeks to reassert its authority in the chaotic nation after…
Somali lawmakers on Wednesday elected a former warlord as their new speaker, two weeks after firing his predecessor for brokering unauthorised peace talks with an Islamist…
Somalia’s Parliament voted on Wednesday to oust powerful speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, who fell out with the president and prime minister late last year after he made peace…
A United States military gunship launched air raids against hideouts of members of the al-Qaeda network in southern Somalia, hitting right on target, the Somali government said…
Ethiopian forces, committed to defending an interim Somali government holed up in the town of Baidoa, launched air strikes on Sunday against Islamist fighters across the country,…
Ethiopian tanks rolled to the battlefront on Friday as Somali Islamists and Somalia’s pro-government troops pounded each other with artillery and rockets in a fourth day of…
Somalia’s Islamists are at war against Ethiopia, not the government, a hard-line Islamist leader said on Thursday, as fighting raged for a third day between his forces and…
Somali Islamists and their Ethiopian-allied government rivals shelled each other for a third day on Thursday, a day after a European Union envoy said the two sides had agreed to…
Somali Islamists and troops defending the government’s only stronghold battled with rockets and heavy weapons on Wednesday at two frontline areas as a European Union envoy flew…
