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Somalia's hardline al Shabaab rebels have prepared two suicide bombers disguised as military and police officers who are planning to strike Mogadishu's seaport and airport, the Somali police said on Monday. A suicide bomber disguised as a woman in a...

After all, what, you think they do it because it's fun to be a pirate?...They're do it for the scrilla, the scratch, the cold, hard cash...A parcel of land here that sold for $12,000 two years ago now costs more...

Somalia's government called on Saturday for an international peace plan like President Barack Obama's new Afghan strategy, saying it would be more effective and far cheaper than current efforts to combat Somali piracy. "We accept that ... the situation in...

Thus, when the second batch of medical graduates in those 18 years gathers for a ceremony, one expects a celebration...Scores have died, amongst them the health minister, the minister for higher education and the minister of education. No group has...

Somalia has lacked a functioning central government since 1991. Al-Shabab and other anti-government groups regularly attack government troops and African Union peacekeepers, in efforts to force them out of the country. Al-Shabab and allied groups control much of southern and...

Militant Islamist group al-Shabab has denied responsibility for a deadly suicide blast Thursday that killed at least 22 people, including 3 government ministers and a number of Somalia's educated elite. The nation's embattled president addressed the country Thursday evening to...

On 2nd February 2009, the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Anthony Albanese, directed the Inspector of Transport Security, Mick Palmer, to conduct an Inquiry under the Inspector of Transport Security Act 2006, into International Piracy and...

The United States, Britain and other major world political players have announced that they are planning to send tens of thousands of troops to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban who have links with al Qaida, a terrorist group.     The announcement...

The United Nations envoy for Somalia called Wednesday on Japan and the international community to help bring the financial backers of Somali pirates to justice. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN special representative for the war-torn African nation, said piracy had become a...