The Latest Breaking News from Somalia

UN warns of looming catastrophe as hundreds of thousands more arrive at settlements that do not have enough food or water

When Somalia's biggest bomb blast killed more than 500 people in 2017, Dr. Ahmed Abdikadir Mohamed watched helplessly as many of the injured bled to death.

Al Shabaab militants attacked several police stations and security checkpoints in Somalia's capital Mogadishu early on Wednesday, officials and the militants said, a show of force as the nation prepares for a much-delayed presidential election. State TV reported that five people, two of them children, were killed in two attacks,…

Authorities in Somalia say an attack by the al-Shabab extremist group has killed six people and wounded 16 on the outskirts of the capital of Mogadishu

Female genital mutilation cannot be considered solely a ‘women’s issue’ if it is to be stamped out by 2030, say male campaigners in Guinea, Somalia, Kenya and Nigeria

Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, which aims to topple the central government and impose its severe interpretation of Islamic law, carries out frequent attacks against the government

Gunfire and explosions went off in Somalia's capital Mogadishu in the early hours of Wednesday as al Shabaab militants attacked police stations and security check points, the internal security minister said.

Security analysts have told The Mirror the widowed wife of London 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay is ­probably being sheltered at a remote location in Somalia or Tanzania

A Somalia national bound for Sharjah was intercepted by the Central Industrial Security Force personnel at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad, on Monday and recovered USD 40,000 from him. 

The frequency of terrorist attacks within Kenya’s Lamu County on the border with Somalia has been alarming. Frequent kidnappings there were the ostensible reason Kenya invaded Somalia in 2011. Three years later, the seaside county was the scene of a deadly attack in which 48 were killed during an Al-Shabaab…

Thousands of desperate families have fled a severe drought across large parts of Somalia, seeking food and water in camps for displaced people outside the capital, Mogadishu