The humanitarian crisis in Somalia is deepening as drought and conflict worsen conditions for displaced citizens. In the capital Mogadishu’s internally displaced person’s camps, food shortages are increasing following the Somali government cutting financial support for the World Food Programme’s electronic card system. Nearly 150,000 Somalis h...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – More than 32 people were killed and over 63 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy beach in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said. Abdifatah Adan Hassan, Somali police spokesman, told a news conference on Saturday that the attack included a suicide explosion followed by gunfire. [&hel...
Mogadishu, Somalia – AFP The death toll from a blast at a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has climbed to nine, security sources told AFP Monday, after a car bomb struck the venue packed with football fans watching the Euro 2024 final. “Nine civilians were killed and 20 others wounded in the explosion,” Mohamed Yusuf...
A boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, killing 49 migrants and leaving 140 others missing, the International Organization for Migration or IOM said on Tuesday. The vessel, carrying 260 migrants, capsized near Alghareef Point in Shabwah governorate. Among the dead were 31 women and six children. According to survivors, the boat departed from B...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) — Lawmakers in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland have rejected a maritime access deal with Ethiopia. In a joint statement late on Tuesday, members of both houses of Somaliland’s parliament, mainly from the coastal Awdal and Salal provinces, said the Red Sea access deal was “illegal” and ai...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Defense Ministry announced Sunday that three personnel from its armed forces and an officer from the Bahrain Defense Force were killed with two others wounded in a terror attack in Somalia. The attack at a military camp in the Somali capital of Mogadishu was carried out […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) — Casualties were feared in northern Somalia after al-Qaeda-affiliated group al-Shabaab launched attacks Wednesday against an army base, according to local officials. Heavy gunfire was exchanged during the multi-pronged strike on an army camp in northern Mudug province, a military official in the central state of Galmud...
CAIRO (AA) – Egypt said Sunday that it will not allow any threats to Somalia’s security amid tension with Ethiopia over a recent maritime deal between Addis Ababa and Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland. “No external actor will be permitted to threaten the Somali people or jeopardize their safety,” Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre has accused Ethiopia’s government of planning an attack on Somali waters and targeting Arab countries bordering the Red Sea. Addressing the Arab League emergency meeting virtually from the capital Mogadishu, Barre said Addis Ababa intends to create a new demographic reality...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and two others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up near Mogadishu municipality headquarters on Tuesday, police said. The suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest in front of the al-Hindi restaurant a few steps away from the Mogadishu mayor’s office, killing three people,...
