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Over one million people displaced in four months in Somalia: UN

NAIROBI: More than a million Somalis have been displaced within their own country in just over four months through a "toxic" mix of drought,...

Children dying in Somalia as food catastrophe worsens

More than 200,000 Somalis are suffering catastrophic food shortages and many are dying of hunger, with that number set to rise to over 700,000...

Four dead in Mogadishu hotel siege

MOGADISHU: At least four people were killed in an ongoing attack by Al-Shabaab insurgents who laid siege to a popular hotel in Somalia's capital...

Death toll from Somalia twin bombings climbs to 100: president

The number of people killed in an attack on Saturday at a busy intersection in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 100, President...

Car bombs explode at Somalia’s education ministry

Two car bomb explosions at Somalia's education ministry rocked the capital Mogadishu on Saturday and blew out windows of nearby buildings, witnesses and the...

Half a million Somali children face hunger in world’s worst famine

More than 500,000 Somali children under five are expected to suffer severe acute malnutrition and risk death from famine this year, a number unseen...

Plane crash-lands at Somalia airport

A passenger plane crash-landed at an airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, with no deaths reported and all those on board - more...

As hunger bites in Somalia, babies start to die

Hacked-off thorn branches encircle two mounds of earth heaped over the tiny bodies of Halima Hassan Abdullahi's twin granddaughters. Babies Ebla and Abdia lived...

Six people killed in blast at restaurant in Somalia’s capital

Six people were killed on Friday by a blast at a seaside restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, an ambulance service official told Reuters. "So far...

Somalia’s worst drought in four decades means millions need aid

It has not rained on Habiba Maow Iman's farm in southern Somalia for two years. Her animals are dead; her crops failed. Wrapped in a...

Four footballers killed in Somalia bus blast

Four local footballers in Somalia were killed when an explosion believed to have been caused by a bomb ripped through their bus on Friday,...

Ten killed in suicide bomb attack in Somali capital

“A suicide bomber blew up himself under trees where poor mothers sold tea, milk and (narcotic leaf) khat.”

At least 20 killed by suicide car bomb near restaurant in Somalia capital

At least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late on Friday, an emergency services official said.

Plane carrying coronavirus aid crashes in Somalia

A plane carrying aid supplies for use in the fight against the coronavirus crashed in Somalia’s southern Bay region on Monday

Somalia has invited Turkey to explore for oil in its seas

Turkey has been a major source of aid to Somalia following a famine in 2011 as Ankara seeks to increase its influence in the Horn of Africa

Death toll in Somalia bombing climbs to 81

The bombing Saturday at a busy intersection in Mogadishu was the country's deadliest attack in two years

Qatar to build new port in Somalia’s Hobyo

Hobyo, in the central region of Mudug, is an important Somali port owing to its proximity to the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait

Mogadishu’s mayor dies in Qatar

The mayor of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has died of wounds sustained in a suicide bomb attack on his office

26 killed in deadly Somalia hotel siege

Three Kenyans, three Tanzanians, two Americans, one British and one Canadian were among the 26 people killed in the attack

Air strike kills Islamic State deputy in Somali region

An air strike killed the deputy leader of the Islamic State group in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region, alongside another militant, a local security official said on Sunday.
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