Somalia

More than twenty nations have reaffirmed Somalia’s sovereignty and condemned a recent visit by Israel’s foreign minister to Somaliland, a self-declared breakaway region, according to a joint statement issued early Friday. The countries…
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Al-Shabab continues to pose the most serious and immediate threat to peace and stability in Somalia and the wider region, particularly neighbouring Kenya, according to a report by UN experts released on Wednesday. Despite sustained…
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The helicopter pilot is anxious. Spend more than 20 minutes on the ground in this shattered frontline village, he warns, and Somalia’s Al-Shabab militants could begin firing mortars. Roughly 1,000 Somali National Army (SNA) troops, backed…
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Flash floods caused by heavy rainfall in central Somalia have claimed the lives of at least 22 people and left over 450,000 affected, according to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The Shabelle River…
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A hundred people were killed and over 300 injured after two car bombs exploded outside the education ministry in the Somalian capital Mogadishu on Saturday, Reuters reported. The al-Shabab, an extremist group linked to Al-Qaeda, claimed…
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Somalia’s “rapidly worsening” drought has left more than two million people facing severe food and water shortages, the United Nations said, warning of a fourth consecutive season of poor rainfall in the conflict-wracked country. “About…
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