Mogadishu News

There are reports that up to a million was paid in ransom but this has not been confirmed. It is probable that at least some significant ransom was paid or the two would not have been released. Brennan tried to...

A spokesman of Somalia pirates told Reuters that De Xin Hai and 25 crew members aboard are likely to be released next week. The spokesman said that the negotiation with the owner is going on and that they agreed to...

Somali pirates are back in the headlines after a Spanish trawler and its 36 member crew has thrust the issue of Somali piracy back into the spotlight. The vessel was released after a ransom payment exceeding $3m was agreed. Does...

There is no doubting that the recent killing of wanted Kenyan-born terrorist Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan in Somalia by US forces has dealt a blow to the insurgent movement in the war-torn country. Nabhan is said to be an influential...

The 112 years old man waited for the 17 year old girl to grow up before proposing to her – they are from the same village in Somalia. She is his sixth wife and he already has 18 children from...

Somalia’s extremist Al-Shabab militia has vowed revenge for the death of a leading Al Qaeda operative. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was believed responsible for the bombings of two US embassies in East Africa in 1998 that killed hundreds of people....

A person name Ahmed Muhamed Dore , who is 112 years old ,married a 17 year teenager in Somalia.He was having 13 children and five wives already .His elder son is 80 years old.Many people attended the marriage ceremony in...