The annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca was slated to begin this week. In normal times, pilgrims from around the world would be flocking to Islam’s holiest site, where they would ...
Iran has established covert ties with the Somalia-based al-Shabab terrorist group well known for its attacks in the Horn of Africa. Following Russia’s playbook in Afghanistan and the surrounding regions, ...
A United Nations cargo plane carrying humanitarian aid has crashed at Beledweyne Airport in central Somalia, officials said. Sabrie Ahmed, from the local administration in Beledweyne town in the region ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan has scored a rare diplomatic victory in establishing relations with the independent region of Somaliland. Intense pressure from China has reduced self-governing, democratic Taiwan to having ...
Explosions rocked two of Somalia’s largest cities on Saturday as officials said a suicide car bomber detonated near the port in Mogadishu and a landmine in a restaurant on the ...
At least five people were injured when a suicide car bomber plowed into a checkpoint near the port in Mogadishu, Somalia early Saturday, Reuters reported. The explosion shook parts of ...
Ahmed Madobe, a former warlord, was re-elected as president of the state in August 2019 in an election boycotted by the federal government who backed a loyalist candidate in a ...
AIROBI, Kenya — The al-Qaida-linked extremist group in Somalia has unveiled a COVID-19 isolation and care facility, a sign that the group is taking seriously the pandemic that continues to ...
It was just seven years ago that Tom Hanks starred in “Captain Phillips” — a harrowing movie about a Somali pirate attack off the Horn of Africa. Since then, piracy ...
At least five people were killed and more than 20 injured Sunday when a blast ripped through a festival marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, police ...
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