By Joshua Keating, A Somali soldier holds a machine gun at Sanguuni military base, where an American special operations soldier was killed by a mortar attack on June 8, about 450 kilometers south of Mogadishu, Somalia, on June 13. Mohamed Abdiwahab/Getty Images Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The U.S. is committing itself

In November 2008, al-Shabaab commander Mohamed Toora-Toorow, in the company of 24 men, left Somalia at 11pm and walked several kilometres into Kenya. The mission of his unit was to kidnap two Italian nuns: 67-year-old Maria Teresa Olivero and 60-year-old Caterina Giraudo, employed as aid workers in El Wak, a town in Mandera County bordering

Mogadishu, Hundreds of demonstrators descended on Mogadishu streets on Saturday to protest the shooting death of the driver and his passenger by a policeman. According to residents, the shooting happened at Bakara intersection. The taxi driver was ferrying a client when the policeman opened fire, killing two of the vehicle’s occupants. Suspected al-Shabaab, The officer

The Chief of Defense Forces of the Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces , Gen David Muhoozi, has flagged off Uganda Battle Group XXVII to Somalia. While addressing the 1,800 troops commanded by Col Kosiya Kuteesa and deputized by Col Rogers Okiror, the counseled the combatants to use the knowledge they have acquired in mission training since

Photo (AP) Police in London arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy Thursday for failing to surrender to the court in 2012, shortly after the South American nation revoked his asylum. Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno said a tweet that his government withdrew Assange’s status for repeated violations of international conventions. Moreno described it

U.S. Africa Command on Wednesday, April 10 said it carried out an airstrike targeting the al-Shabaab jihadist group in Somalia, the first since the command admitted it had inadvertently killed civilians in an aerial raid last year. “In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia’s continued efforts to weaken al-Shabaab, U.S. forces conducted an airstrike

Ecstatic”: Nadia Hassan, from Leyton, hopes her achievement will inspire others youngsters ( Nadia Hassan ) A student from an east London council estate whose mother fled war-torn Somalia hopes to inspire other youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds after being offered a place at Oxford University. Nadia Hassan, 18, from Leyton, said she was “ecstatic” to

Mogadishu, The Minister of Education, Abdullahi Godah Barreh said the highly- anticipated parliamentary session focused on security was called off due to the influence of MPs who secretly support Al-Shabaab.”Al-Shabaab wanted this chaos in parliament to happen. This was made possible by MPs who’s thinking aligns with Al-Shabaab ideology,” the Minister said. “The people of

Photo (AP) Just weeks after insisting that American airstrikes in Somalia had killed no civilians, U.S. Africa Command said Friday that new information reveals that a woman and a child died last April when a U.S. strike targeted al-Shabab militants. The revelation comes on the heels of a report by Amnesty International that charged last

A Somali police officer says a car bomb exploded near the gate of a police academy in the capital, Mogadishu, injuring six people on Thursday evening. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said that the blast was apparently targeting the Gen. Kahiye Police Academy. There were no immediate details about the type of blast which comes a day