U.S. Marine Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), met with senior government officials during a visit to Somalia on Nov. 27, 2018. During the visit, Waldhauser met with Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, also known as President Farmaajo, and key Somali defense officials. “AFRICOM and the U.S. government support the Federal

Gunmen kidnapped an Italian volunteer and wounded a woman and four children in Kenya late on Tuesday, police and witnesses said – the first abduction of a foreigner there since raids blamed on Somali Islamist militants six years ago. Men armed with AK-47 rifles seized the 23-year-old woman from a guesthouse in Chakama, near Kenya’s

The US military says it has carried out air strikes against al-Shabab in Somalia, killing at least 37 suspected fighters. In a statement on Tuesday, the US Africa Command (US AFRICOM) said the two strikes on Monday took place near Debatscile. “Air strikes reduce al-Shabab’s ability to plot future attacks, disrupt its leadership networks, and

Regional government asks aid agencies to scale up emergency response to the humanitarian crisis. Over 200,000 people fled ethnic conflict to camps in the Somali region of Ethiopia since July. This pushes the total to over 700,000 that fled inter-communal violence in recent years, according to the latest Displacement Tracking Matrix for Ethiopia. Most came

Zholia Alemi, 56, was convicted of fraud and theft offences at Carlisle Crown Court last month.Thousands of NHS doctors are to have their records reviewed after a woman with fake qualifications was found to be working as a consultant psychiatrist for 23 years. Zholia Alemi, 56, was jailed for five years in October after she

Police officers at the Kenya-Somalia border let in five Al-Shabaab suicide bombers in February this year after receiving bribes, a new United Nations report says. The report lays bare how Kenyan security forces routinely accept cash bribes from as low as Ksh2,000 ($20) from terror militants to wave them through. The Somalia Report 2018, released

Mogadishu-Hundreds of travellers remained stranded at Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle Airport after an inferno forced flights to be delayed. The fire gutted down a section of a restaurant within the Airport that serves travellers. Firefighters arrived at the scene to put out the inferno that had threatened to spread to other parts of the airport. A

Somali police officers have been conducting search operations overnight in Mogadishu, where over the last few days the killings. The forces have explored the KM13 and Garasbeley camps in Mogadishu and searched every house. Residents say the troops were searching a house, asking questions. Some reports indicate that the operation was carried out by different

The President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, has called on the Force Commander to come up with a complete report on the security and the recent explosions that occurred on Friday. Dead rises 60 innocent people, Commander-in-Chief of the National Constituent Assembly, Chief of the Army Major General Dahir

Suicide attackers set off two car bombs at a hotel near the headquarters of Somalia’s Criminal Investigations Department in Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 17 people, police said.Guards at Hotel Sahafi and CID officers opened fire after the blasts, police added. Then, about 20 minutes later, a third explosion hit the busy street, witnesses