Somalia Travel News

Taser, after a video of the altercation with police came to light. A man arrested Monday in connection with a mass murder in Surrey, B.C., had just won a huge poker jackpot.

The recruits gather in scorching desert hideouts in Somalia, use portraits of President Barack Obama for target practice, learn how to make and detonate bombs, and vow allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Training camps in the lawless nation of Somalia...

Rebels suspected of links to al Qaeda seized a Somali town near the Kenyan border on Saturday, sending civilians fleeing toward the neighboring country. Al Shabaab insurgents, who Washington says are a proxy in Somalia for Osama bin Laden's group,...

Outgoing AU special envoy to Somalia Nicholas Bwakira said the donors have only paid 30 percent of the funds they pledged in Brussels early this year, According to the Press TV correspondent. Bwakira added that the issue will have a...

Mr Diarra replaces Mr Nicolas Bwakira who has held the post for two years. Addressing a press conference in Nairobi, Mr Bwakira said African Union troops in Somalia have not been paid for eight months. Mr Bwakira attributed this to...

Fourteen Somali-Americans were charged on Monday for alleged connections to a militant Muslim group operating in Somalia called al-Shabaab, or �The Youth.� The charges include providing financial support to Shabab�s network, visiting terrorist training camps, and even fighting with...

Kenya — The African Union's Somalia envoy says donors have released only 30 percent of funds they pledged months ago towards bolstering Somalia's security. Nicolas Bwakira says as a result AU peacekeepers from Uganda and Burundi have not been paid...

Noting the dangers facing his media colleagues in the country, Abdinur -- who is also editor-in-chief of Somalia's independent Radio Simba -- said the CPJ was "paying tribute to those reporters who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their profession."...