The Latest Breaking News from Somalia

Despite objections from Somali government, Security Council voted to maintain sanctions regime over al-Shabab threat.

UNHCR Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Mohammed Abdi Affey has warned the Ethiopian parties against a return to fighting between the government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), saying any such move could cause a humanitarian catastrophe. Affey announced there were 103 million displaced persons and refugees,…

The United States said Monday it was increasing its reward for information about key leaders of Somalia's Al-Shabaab to $10 million apiece, a move that follows a spate of deadly attacks by the terrorist group. The US State Department also said it was for the first time offering a reward…

Donors need to provide cash now to save lives and not wait for famine to be declared in parts of East Africa where tens of millions of people are going hungry, the head of the International Rescue Committee said on Tuesday.

US seeks information leading to disruption of Somalia-based group’s finances as it intensifies attacks.

Issack Hassan lives in a migrant camp in Baidoa city in Somalia - one of more than a million people displaced since January after five successive failed rainy seasons.

The costs of climate-related disasters are growing and the poorest countries are bearing the brunt of impacts, from the unprecedented floods in Pakistan to the expanding famine in Somalia. Natural disasters in 2022 alone cost the global economy an estimated US$227 billion.

Somalia's army and associated clan militias have killed at least 20 al Shabaab fighters in towns in the centre of the country, a regional official and the Information Ministry said on Wednesday, in the latest onslaught against the group.

Mahna Mohamed was looking forward to returning home to London after spending two years in Somalia, her parents' homeland, but instead Ethiopian authorities confiscated her passport and left her stranded in a foreign country with no money

Suicide bomber kills five and wounds 11 others in attack on military training camp in Mogadishu, state media reports.

Somalia's army and allied clan militias have killed at least 100 al Shabaab fighters in heavy clashes in the central Hiran region, the defence ministry said on Friday, days after twin bombings killed at least 120 people in the capital.