MOGADISHU, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Somalia's prime minister told cabinet ministers on Monday to resign if they are unhappy, intensifying a dispute which has stymied efforts to rebuild the country after decades of war. More than 100 lawmakers loyal to President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud have put forward a ...

MOGADISHU, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab militants said they fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Sunday, but government and police spokesmen said none had landed inside the compound. The Islamist militants attacked the president's compound on July 8 but were re...

Mogadishu, 17 November 2014 – United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Nicholas Kay met with Somali political leaders on 16 November 2014. He was joined by Danish Ambassador Geert Aagaard Andersen, European Union (EU) Special Representative for the Horn of Africa Alex R...

Mogadishu, 15 November 2014 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, has expressed concern over the violence on 15 November during preparations for the parliamentary elections in Somaliland. There have been reports that some members of parliament may...

New York, 12 November 2014 - Expressing continued grave concern over piracy off the coast of Somalia despite a sharp decline in attacks, the Security Council today renewed for another year authorizations, first agreed in 2008, for international action to fight the crime in cooperation with Governmen...

Your Excellency Mr President, the co-chair, Your Excellency Mr Prime Minister, Honourable Ministers, Members of Parliament, distinguished representatives from the Puntland, the Interim Jubba Administration, Benadir, Galmadug and civil society. I want to add my welcome to all our partners, Somali and...

Child slavery comes in a multitude of forms, as I saw and heard at the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Trust Women Conference, but it’s the thought of Somalia’s child soldiers that most haunts me. Growing up in violent and conflict-ravaged Somalia – a country that’s yet to find a solution to a 23-ye...

MOMBASA, Kenya, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Explosions struck the town of Wajir in northern Kenya near the border with Somalia on Monday evening and one person was killed in a gun attack that coincided with the blasts, emergency workers and police said. A police officer said the assault was probably carrie...

NAIROBI, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed 36 workers in an attack on a quarry in Kenya's Mandera county, which borders Somalia, said the county governor on Tuesday who drew a parallel with another recent raid by al Shabaab militants. Some 28 people were killed in the area last month when al Shabaa...

Federal government and AMISOM to resume Anti Al-shabaab Indian Ocean operation 10 Dec – Source: Somali Current/Wararka Somalia.com – 145 Words Senior security officer, Mohamud Mohamed Qafow said that Somali government forces and AMISOM troops are preparing to resume recently halted military o...