Somalia News

By Raymond Baguma Lieutenant General Andrew Gutti has handed over as the overall force commander of the African Union Mission in Somalia to Burundian Lieutenant General Silas Ntigurirwa.

Somali hospital staff at the Medina hospital in Mogadishu receive the body of one of the three Syrian doctors killed on December 18, 2013 some 30 km north west of the capital Mogadishu.

Molly, a bottlenose dolphin in her early 50s, can't see very well and requires special care.

A Somali official says suspected al-Qaida-linked militants have ambushed a convoy carrying doctors near Somali capital, killing six people, three of them foreigners.

Training of Somali soldiers by the EU will be shifted from Uganda to Somalia early next year, with an improvement in the security climate there, the EU said in a statement Tuesday.

A woman waits for her turn to collect her ration of food during a distribution exercise at a United Nations World Food Programme centre in Dagahale, one of the several refugee settlements in Dadaab, Garissa County, northeastern Kenya, October 8, 2013.

Mogadishu, Dec 16: The African Union special representative to Somalia Mahamet Saleh Annadif Monday welcomed the appointment of the Horn of Africa nation's new Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed.

A dog tag bearing the name of an Army casualty in Somalia is found in Pensacola; the VA has a new system to share health information with civilian hospitals; and an Afghanistan veteran's charity march garners $1,550.

At least four people were killed Saturday after a device exploded inside a passenger van in the capital, Kenyan police said, in what appears to be the first attack inside Nairobi since the deadly terrorist assault on an upscale mall in September.

Newtown plans to mark on year since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting with memorial services and the ringing of bells for the victims.

The security risks that surfaced at Nelson Mandela's memorial underscore how the Secret Service is often at the mercy of foreign governments when it comes to President Barack Obama's travels overseas.

Newtown plans to mark on year since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting with memorial services and the ringing of bells for the victims.

Osgoode Hall law professor Sean Rehaag found "vast disparities" in refugee claim rates for Immigration and Refugee Board members in 2011.

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.