Somalia News

The American Civil Liberties Union will appear in court on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 on behalf of a U.S. citizen who was illegally detained and mistreated by American officials in three east African countries in 2007.

At least ten people were reportedly killed and 15 others were wounded in heavy clan fighting that occurred in Kabhan-ley vicinity which lies about 40 km north of Hiraan regional capital of Beledweyne as Al Shabaab militants poured into Baidoa according to residents, Garowe Online reports.

An economist based at the Islamic Development Bank in Saudi Arabia is favourite to be named Somalia's new prime minister, sources in the presidential palace said, after his predecessor was forced out by lawmakers in a vote of no confidence.

According to a new report, the births of one in three kids under the age of five have not been registered.

Ondoga appeared before the General Court Martial at Makindye on charges of neglect of duty among other offenses in Somalia with other two soldiers.

Four members of Kenya's police force and two civilians were killed in an ambush on Tuesday by suspected Somali Islamist militants near the Somali border, a senior official said.

A Somali child is checked for malnutrition at a Save the Children UK clinic at their camp in Hodan district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, November 2012.

London, Dec. 10 : A court in Somalia has given a suspended jail sentence to a 19-year-old woman who alleged she was raped.

A wide view of the Security Council as it hears a briefing by Special Representative for Somalia, Nicholas Kay , via videolink.

December 10 - The American Civil Liberties Union will appear in court on Wednesday on behalf of a U.S. citizen who was illegally detained and mistreated by American officials in three east African countries in 2007.

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Aid agencies paid Somalia's al-Shabab militants for access to areas under their control in the 2011 famine, according to a joint report by two think tanks.

One of the World Food Programmes main priorities is to strengthen communities so that individuals can support themselves and their families.

Famine-stricken internally displaced people wait to receive relief food from members of al Shabaab, al Qaeda-linked insurgents, at Ala Yaasir camp at Km50 out of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, September 3, 2011.

The Afghan Taliban recently claimed that the US' reliance on drone strikes to target Taliban leaders masks the decline of American power in the world and the failure of its counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.

The past week has seen fierce fighting all over Somalia, but particularly near the city of Beledweyne, as AMISOM and Somali troops face stiff Shabaab resistance in multiple theaters.

The Islamist militant group runs much of Somalia like its own personal fiefdom and was most recently in the headlines for conducting the horrific attack on Westgate Mall in Nairobi.

Thousands of people have been left homeless following continued flooding in parts of Somalia's Middle Shabelle region over the past couple of months, with large tracts of farmland being inundated, raising fears of livelihood losses.

Nineteen-year-old will be confined to home for six months and journalists who reported the story are to go to jail.

A group of displaced women walk along the flooded Shebelle River in Jowhar, as they make their way to higher grounds in the north of Somalia's capital Mogadishu December 8, 2013.