African forces backing Somali government troops say they have launched a carefully planned operation to bring security and stability to the people of the Afgoye corridor, a rural area where ...
The trial has opened in Paris of six Somalis charged with taking the 30 crew of luxury sailing ship Le Ponant hostage in the pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Aden in 2008.
At least eight people, including two Somali MPs, were killed and more than 11 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the central town of Dhusamareb on Tuesday.
In Somalia two civilians were wounded yesterday when war planes fired several missiles at a suspected Somali pirate base in Gumah in the country's north.
Kenya awaits more refugees as hostilities escalate in Sudan. And there's renewed violence in Mogadishu. Who's to blame for crime in the Nigerian diaspora? Whp preaches the gospel of ...
Somali pirates have seized an Iranian-owned cargo ship and its 23 crew off the Maldives Islands. The vessel identified as MV Eglantine was seized off the island of Hoarafush.
Somali pirates freed a British hostage Wednesday, nearly seven months after she was taken captive in a raid at a Kenyan beach resort in which her husband was killed.
