Terrorists are counting on sowing hatred in deeply divided places like the city of Jos, which has long been a flashpoint for ethnic tensions.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered top security chiefs and officials to secure the release of 223 schoolgirls abducted three weeks ago.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says regional troops will intervene in extremist-occupied northern Mali if negotiations fail to yield a solution.
At least nine people were killed and 18 wounded in central Somalia when two clans fought on Monday over land, hospital and local officials said. The fighting erupted between the…
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…
Islamist militia on Friday took control of a town in south-central Somalia after Ethiopian soldiers withdrew overnight, witnesses said. The Islamists, who briefly controlled much…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) representative for Somalia on Friday voiced his concern at the increasing number of rape cases in the country’s war-torn capital,…
A human rights group condemned Kenya on Tuesday for repatriating 18 Somali refugees who had already been turned away from Uganda despite the horrific security situation in their…
The toll from some of the worst fighting in Somalia’s war-wracked capital climbed to 59 on Saturday, as thousands fled the city fearing more clashes between Ethiopian forces and…
Civilians dragged the body of an Ethiopian soldier through the streets of Somalia’s capital on Thursday after fighting with insurgents killed a second soldier and civilian,…
The United Nations’s new envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, held his first talks in Mogadishu on Saturday with the embattled transitional government’s top leaders, the UN…
Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys dismissed United States terrorism allegations against him and instead blamed Washington for instability in the Horn of Africa, in…
Gunmen killed two police officers in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, where the embattled transitional government is facing a deadly insurgency, police said on Friday. The pair were…
