Kismayu, Somali Times Somali Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Khaire and a high-level delegation he was leading have arrived in the southern port city of Kismayu on Monday. The Prime Minister received a warm welcome from Jubbaland state president, lawmakers, officials and cheering, flag-waving crowd upon his arrival at the city’s airport. During his stay, Somali

Mogadishu, Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, HE Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, visited the Madina Hospital this morning to review the medical situation of victims injured in the terror attacks in Mogadishu. When he arrived at the hospital, he was briefed by the Director of Hospital Dr Mohamed Yusuf told the medical

The United States military on Friday said it had killed 26 fighters with the al-Shabab extremist group with an airstrike in central Somalia, after a pair of strikes earlier this week killed 55. The U.S. has carried out 24 such strikes this year, more than half the number in all of 2018. Several have had

Gunfire continued midday Friday in Somalia’s capital as security forces fought with al-Shabab extremists holed up in a building hours after a car bombing in Mogadishu left at least 18 dead, with the toll expected to climb. Police Capt. Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press that at least 40 others were injured in the complex

Heavy gunfire rang out across central Mogadishu on Friday as Somali troops battled to dislodge Islamist insurgents holed up next to a hotel they bombed the previous evening, and as the death toll stemming from that attack neared 30. Al Shabaab fighters set off two bombs outside the Hotel Maka Al-Mukarama before retreating to an

A suicide car bombing targeting a Mogadishu hotel by the Islamist group Al Shabaab on Thursday killed at least 10 people and destroyed buildings in the Somali capital’s busiest street, police said. It was one of the heaviest blasts to have hit Mogadishu in recent times. It took place in a business center in Maka

Photo Camden New Journal Awale Olad one of only six black councillors in Camden’s history A YOUNG man told a public meeting that he had been “blocked” in his attempts to become a Labour councillor, as calls were made for the Somali community to be better represented. Mubarak Deerow spoke out at a session held

For the past 10 years the EU has successfully deployed a CSDP military naval operation to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia. Today the threat of piracy has been minimised. At the same time the operation was tasked with monitoring fishing activity and reporting any illegal activity. Improved security conditions now allow communities to

The U.S. military has killed 35 fighters from al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab in an airstrike in Somalia near the Ethiopian border, U.S. Africa Command (Africom) said Monday. In a statement, Africom said the Sunday airstrike targeted the fighters “as they were transitioning between locations in a rural area,” approximately 23 miles east of Beledweyne in

A police officer in Somalia says Islamic extremist gunmen shot dead a prominent lawmaker in the north of the capital, Mogadishu, late Saturday. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said Osman Elmi Boqore, the country’s oldest legislator estimated to be over 80, was shot dead by gunmen who pulled up near his car as he was being driven