Conflicts in Syria, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mali push number of displaced people to more than 45 millionThe world is in the throes of its most serious refugee crisis for almost 20 years, as conflicts in Syria, Democratic Republic of the Co...
Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents said Wednesday they had attacked and shot their way into a key United Nations compound in the capital Mogadishu, the first major attack in recent years targeting the UN.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked an office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, a senior police officer and a witness said.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A loud explosion was heard near the Somali capital's heavily-fortified international airport on Wednesday followed by bursts of gunfire, a Reuters witness said.
The piracy problem off the coast of West Africa highlighted by an International Maritime Bureau (IMB) report is, overwhelmingly, a Nigerian problem.The IMB report said maritime piracy was now more prevalent off the coast of West Africa than around Soma...
GENEVA (AP) The U.N. refugee agency says more than 45.2 million people were forced to flee homes last year, an 18-year high mainly due to wars in Syria, Afghanistan and other countries.The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees say...
The UN says 7.6 million people became refugees in 2012, with the total number now higher than at any time since 1994.A report from the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says that Syria is "a major new factor" driving up refugee nu...
[VOA]London -Piracy in West Africa now affects more ships and seafarers than piracy coming from Somalia, according to a new report by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), however, Somali pirates tend to mete out harsher treatment to their hostages....
Anneli Botha
"Following the intervention of the Kenya Defence Forces in Somalia in October 2011 in reaction to the increase in kidnappings on the Kenyan coast, the threat of terrorism
in Kenya increased co...
In this special edition, we focus on the deteriorating situation for civilians and medical workers in Mogadishu, Somalia. Somalia has been wracked by violence for nearly 16 years now. But the past months has seen some of the worst fighting ever in the ...
[Garowe Online]Kismayo -A Jubaland government official was wounded in the tense port city of Kismayo on Tuesday and is being treated by AMISOM medical officials, Garowe Online reports.
[Sabahi]Somali government forces backed by African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Ethiopian troops seized several villages surrounding Beledweyne from al-Shabaab Sunday evening (June 16th), UN-funded Radio Bar-Kulan reported.
[Sabahi]A three-day conference on education opened in Mogadishu Tuesday (June 18th), bringing together government officials, educators and civil society groups to discuss ways to overhaul Somalia's education sector.
[Sabahi]Police arrested hundreds of suspected al-Shabaab fighters in Mogadishu's Hodan and Howlwadag districts Monday (June 17th) after a mortar attack Sunday targeting the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia's Garowe Online reported.
[Garowe Online]Hargeisa -Somaliland government rejected an aircraft attempting to land at Egal International Airport in Hargeisa on Tuesday, after Somaliland officials said the plane requested to use airspace from the Somali Federal Government (SFG), G...
United Nations refugee agency . More than 45.2 million people were displaced in 2012, almost three million more than in the previous year. War in five countries - Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria and Sudan - was the reason 55 per cent of those displac...
