Somalia News

I am sure the "United Somalia" empty slogan will be shouted some trillion times or perhaps zillion times both inside and outside the conference hall before and during the up coming international London conference on Somalia.

African Union forces in Somalia are planning to attack a stronghold town of al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab rebels to the west of the war-torn country's capital, a commander said on Sunday.

Despite two televised debates and a barrage of ads, Florida's big-stakes Republican primary did not translate into a record number of GOP voters heading to the polls.

Kenya is to send close to 5,000 soldiers to serve under a new look African Union Mission to Somalia.

Somalia has been a "collapsed state" since 1991. The instability that it harbors not only threatens the lives and livelihoods of its own people but endangers international security.

The SSC had a history of making sacrifices for the Somali cause for which they paid heavily, got little in return and expected none.

EMMERDALE hunk Aaron Livesy will leave the village in heartbreaking scenes after turning down an offer to ride off into the sunset with his new man.

The move by al-Shabaab to join ranks with al-Qaeda will attract more international support to efforts to crush the militants, the military has said.

Writing a book about Somalia has become a cottage industry of late. Countless pundits with little or no experience of the country try to reduce its extraordinarily intricate conflict to images of destruction, decay and death.

Al-Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri decided to formally merge the group with Somali affiliate al-Shabaab. Christopher Anzalone sees it as a desperate grab for relevancy by al-Qaeda central: The issuing of this announcement now, during a period when both AQC and Al-Shabab are facing mounting pressures, is telling...AQC, faced with the loss of its ... (more)

In this Thursday, Feb.17, 2011 file photo, al-Shabab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Held captive since last fall, an ailing American woman and a Danish man are safely on their way home after a bold, dark-of-night rescue by U.S. Navy SEALs.

At least 11 people have drowned and another 34 are missing following a boat incident this week in the Gulf of Aden.

In 2008 she wrote a play - based on a true story - that premiered in Manchester last year and then transferred to the Lyric, Hammersmith; she won awards and a review in a leading national newspaper saying that it was "quite possiblya the play of the year". Franzmann has given up teaching now in favour of full-time writing, but it is her debut drama ... (more)

Somalia's extremist Shebab fighters have joined ranks with Al-Qaeda, the terror network's chief Ayman al-Zawahiri announced in a video message posted on jihadist forums on Thursday.

Rapper/actor/business mogul Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson visited war-torn Somalia this past Wednesday , eerily enough on the same day as Somalia's homegrown al Shabab terrorists joined forces with Al Qaeda .

Banks in the US state of Minnesota - home to a large ethnic Somali community - have stopped money transfer services to Somalia, fearful of prosecution under US anti-terror laws.

's leader announced in a video that the Somali militant group al-Shabab has formally joined al-Qaeda, fusing two groups that have been targets of America's counterterrorism efforts.

Al-Qaida's leader Ayman al-Zawahri said Somalia's militant group al Shabaab had joined the global network, in a video issued on Thursday according to the SITE online monitoring service.

A car bomb killed eight people and wounded two members of parliament in Somalia's capital on Wednesday, officials said.