Thousands of Yemeni refugees fleeing the ongoing Saudi airstrikes are seeking shelter in the Horn of Africa. People displaced by the Yemeni conflict are crossing the Gulf of Aden on boats to reach neighboring African countries. Nearly 350 Yemeni refugees arrived at a temporary refugee camp of the United Nations[…]
Kenya has suspended the licences of 13 Somali remittance firms following the assault on a college by al-Shabab fighters killing more than 200 people. The April 2 attack in Garissa, 200km from the Somalia border, was Kenya’s deadliest since al-Qaeda bombed the US embassy in 1998. Bashir Issa Ali, Somalia’s[…]
A Kenyan official says a drone strike in Somalia is believed to have killed a senior member of the al-Shabab group who allegedly helped plan the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi. The official said Thursday that Adan Garar and two others are suspected to have been killed after their[…]
A former taxi driver from Virginia who was recently placed on the FBI’s list of most-wanted terrorists has been captured in Somalia, a U.S. law enforcement official said Monday. The official told The Associated Press that Liban Mohamed, 29, is in Somali custody. The official would not describe what efforts[…]
A legislator and a deputy mayor were among many killed in a suicide bomb attack Friday on a hotel near the presidential palace in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu, a Somali lawmaker said. One person rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the gate of the Central Hotel in Mogadishu, and another[…]
A suicide bombing has struck Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, killing five people including the bomber, with the armed group al-Shabab quickly claiming responsibility. Witnesses reported a loud explosion, followed by gunfire and plumes of smoke, in Waaberi district on Sunday. The area is close to the heavily fortified international airport. Witnesses[…]
Fighters belonging to the radical group al-Shabaab on Monday killed at least 10 Somali government soldiers, including a senior commander, a military source said. Fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and tanks attacked an army base near Afgoye about 30 kilometres north-west of Mogadishu, according to a commander who[…]
Kenya’s interior minister and police chief were removed from their posts on Tuesday, hours after Somalia’s Al Shabab rebels carried out a fresh massacre in the northeast of the country. In a televised address to the nation, President Uhuru Kenyatta also vowed his security forces will “intensify the war on[…]
A car bomb exploded outside a popular cafe in Somalia’s capital on Sunday, killing 11 people and wounding eight others, a senior police official said. The blast struck the Aroma cafe in Mogadishu and the bomb was believed to have been detonated by remote control, senior police official Mohammed Hussein[…]
Somali troops backed by African Union (AU) forces have retaken the al-Shabab stronghold of Barawe, key to the financing of the armed group. Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi, embedded with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in Barawe, said: “Special forces are securing the city. They are having people open[…]
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