News Source: News 24
| 2 months ago
Defence ministers from Uganda, Burundi and Somalia met on Friday in Kampala over the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia after last week's suicide attack on the force, an official said. The ministers, alongside military chiefs of staff from...
News Source: The New York Times
| 2 months ago
Kenya A Somali Web site is claiming that one of the suicide bombers who attacked an African Union base last week in Somalia was from the United States, which, if true, would make him the second known American to carry out a suicide attack.
News Source: Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 2 months ago
Rival Islamist insurgents are squaring up for a fight over southern Somalia's strategic port of Kismayu after hardline al Shabaab rebels unilaterally named a new administration to run the area. Animosity has been growing between al Shabaab, which the...
News Source: Daily Nation
| 2 months ago
Somalia will become "the new Afghanistan" unless Western nations give its U.N.-backed government the necessary tools to prevent al Qaeda from getting a foothold in Africa, the EU's humanitarian chief said on Wednesday. Related Stories President...