Somalia Travel News

The owners of a Greek ship hijacked more than six months ago off the coast of Somalia denied Thursday it had been released by Somali pirates.

Going home ... footage of the hostages shown on Al Jazeera. NIGEL BRENNAN and Amanda Lindhout are alive to tell their horrific tale of captivity in Somalia - 15 months of brutality, torture, hunger and desperate loneliness in separate cells - because their families paid the ransom.

"The captain has passed away due to the injuries he sustained earlier," said Abdi Mohamoud Samatar, a pirate close to the gang which captured the MV Theresa VIII on Monday.

Officials from Puntland and Somali Federal Government have disagreed over harmonized accord that would allow the two governments to work together under a federal umbrella.

November 11, 2009 -- The Seychelles and the European Union signed an agreement on Tuesday that would allow the deployment of EU troops on the Indian Ocean islands to counter a maritime crime wave by Somali pirates.

A New Jersey man alleged in a lawsuit today that U.S. officials were responsible for falsely imprisoning him for several months in Africa on suspicion of having ties to al-Qaida. Amir Meshal of Tinton Falls, Monmouth County, says that in December 2006 he fled Mogadishu, Somalia, where he had gone to study Islam, and was accused by U.S. officials ...

NAIROBI, 9 November 2009 - Heavy rain, lack of medical services, few latrines and reduced aid have worsened the plight of the growing number of internally displaced persons camping on the outskirts of Mogadishu, sources said.

The security services are happy that Somalis are turning out in big numbers to register in the wake of threats by the Somali-based al-Shabaab terrorist group to make Ugandans cry for the UPDF's peacekeeping efforts in Mogadishu.

MOGADISHU, Somalia: Rival pirates and militia groups have fought for control of a British couple held hostage for more than a week, an Islamic militia commander and a local elder said.

In this undated photo made available by the family, Paul and Rachel Chandler, who went missing when sailing from the Seychelles to Tanzania after sending a distress signal on Friday, Oct.

At the height of its popularity, the Hotel Dal Hiis, in the Marere district of southern Somalia, teemed with British and Italian tourists spending their days lazing by the pool or going out on safari in search of lions.

The BBC's Mohamed Dore reports on a rare road trip out of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, into territory run by Islamist militants.

Ethiopia Makes Appeal for Emergency Aid Amid Drought U.S.-backed regime faces worsening crisis ahead of 2010 elections by Abayomi Azikiwe Editor, Pan-African News Wire News Analysis After months of food deficits, deepening political problems domestically and regionally, within the broader context of the world economic crisis, the Ethiopian ...

Djibouti's foreign minister accused neighbouring Eritrea on Sunday of arming and training militias to carry out sabotage in the tiny Horn of Africa country, and of fomenting chaos in the region.

Kampala Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Aronda Nyakairima threw his weight behind the policea s alerts of possible terrorist attacks in the country and said yesterday that the country is a target of reprisal attacks especially because of Ugandaa s peacekeeping mission in Somalia.

Ugandan authorities have released Somalia's state minister for defence after clearing him of involvement in terror attacks in insurgency-hit Somalia, a Ugandan army official said Wednesday.

Ugandan authorities released Somalia's junior defence minister Youssuf Mohamed Siad after he was arrested by mistake overnight in the capital Kampala, the army spokesman said.

The new president of Somalia must convince not only those in his war-ravaged country that he can bring peace and stability but also the thousands of refugees who have found sanctuary in the United States.

Doha: Qatar Red Crescent and the Islamic Development Bank will offer $350m for the displaced people in Somalia.

The civil warfare and social instability in Somalia have prompted the flight of more than 50,000 refugees to neighboring Kenya this year alone, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.