Somalia News

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.

DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya, December 9 - When the UN refugee agency starts helping refugees go back to Somalia from Kenya on their own next month, Dhahiro Hussein Ali, a 22-year-old mother of four, vows she'll be one of the first to leave.

Humanitarian 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.

An opposition MP who was killed by the explosion of a bomb placed under his car And ' the ultimate act of violence took place in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a growing concern for freedom of speech is denied and the press oppressed.

From the unapproachable look for what our Presidents term as a "knowledgeable" prime minister, to the long wait for the discovery of such a person - the people are yet unsure, when and where this gliding and backward policy of Somalia will come to an end.

Federal Member of parliament and the chairman of parliamentary sub-committee on social affairs Mohamed Warsame Faysal was killed in a bomb blast in Mogadishu on Friday, Garowe Online reports.

Shabaab, al Qaeda's branch in Somalia, carried out a suicide attack today at the intersection of a crowded marketplace in Bossaso, in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

The bullet-scarred streets of Somalia's war-ravaged capital are rife with danger, but after two decades of anarchy, the besieged residents can now at least call the police if there is a problem.

MOGADISHU, 5 December 2013 - 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.

MOGADISHU: At least eight people were killed Thursday when a car bomber rammed a convoy in Somalia's northern port of Bossasso, a region harbouring Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents where tensions are high ahead of elections in January.

A police official says a suicide car bomber, targeting two pick-up trucks carrying Puntland Marine Forces in northern Somalia, has killed nine people and wounded 37 others.

It's sometimes called "highway hypnosis" or "white-line fever," and it's familiar to anyone who has ever driven long distances along a monotonous route.