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The African Union's Somalia envoy said Wednesday donors have released only 30 percent of funds they pledged months ago toward bolstering Somalia's security, frustrating efforts to turnaround the lawless country.
Kismayu, Somalia, March 3 (Reuters)—Two U.S. missiles hit a house in southern Somalia on Monday, according to local officials, in an attack Washington said was directed at "known terrorists".
The charges are part of a sweeping investigation of more than 20 young men who left the U.S. to join a militant Islamist group in Somalia, the Shabaab.
An AFP journalist who is among the few independent reporters still working in war-torn Mogadishu received Tuesday a key press award for his work, along with three other correspondents.
NAIROBI, Kenya, 24 November, 2009 – For the first time ever, a Child Health Days campaign has reached displaced children and women in Somalia's Afgoye Corridor, a 30 km stretch of road west of Mogadishu that is the world's most densely populated settlement for the displaced.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Eight people were charged in an investigation into men who left the Minneapolis area to train with a terrorist organization in Somalia, the Justice Department said.
NAIROBI, Kenya — The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia's capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm. Then she saw her 8-year-old: The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his waist.
Authorities unsealed terrorism-related charges Monday against eight Americans they said recruited young people to fight for an Islamist group in Somalia that is linked to Al Qaeda .
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Eight people were charged in an investigation into about 20 men who left the Minneapolis area to train with a terrorist organization in Somalia, the Justice Department said.
NAIROBI, 24 November 2009 (IRIN) - Somalia's Islamist Al-Shabab militia group has taken control of the southern town of Afmadow, 620km south of the capital Mogadishu, causing hundreds of families to flee in fear of violence.
The U.N.'s World Food Program must immediately stop importing relief rations to Somalia, hard-line rebels said on Wednesday, accusing the aid agency of devastating local agriculture.
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A Somali businessman says a ship hijacked by pirates off East Africa two weeks ago has been released. Ali Dheere, the chairman of a group of traders in Mogadishu, says the al-Mizan has arrived in Somalia's capital.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The Islamic militant group that controls large parts of Somalia says the U.N.'s World Food Program must stop importing food into its territory.
A Minnesota man has pleaded not guilty to terror-related charges in connection with the disappearances of as many as 20 young men who left the Twin Cities to fight with terrorists in Somalia.
Little Mogadishu residents talk of a lack of identity and a life of poverty and racism. And they disagree over their former neighbors who are accused of plotting jihad in Somalia. Barely a block from the Mississippi River sits a neighborhood Mark Twain could not have imagined.
NAIROBI, 23 November 2009 (IRIN) - Both locals and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia's central town of Beletweyne are experiencing increased hardship with several changes in the town's administration, residents say.
