Somali Pirate King-Pin Afweyne Retires

One of Somalia's most notorious pirate leaders who terrorized vast areas of the Indian Ocean, generating multi-million dollar ransoms...

Gunmen Kill Kenyan Policeman In Ambush

Suspected Islamists shot dead a Kenyan policeman in an ambush in the restive northeastern border town of Mandera, the latest in a string o...

Somalia's al Shabaab rebels pull out of Kismayu bastion

Somalia's al Shabaab rebels withdrew from their last major bastion of Kismayu overnight, the group and residents said, a day after K...

Somali lawmakers pick president in landmark vote

  Somali lawmakers voted for a new president Monday, a key milestone for the war-torn nation as it establishes its first stable central g...

Exposed: How children are kidnapped, chained and trained to become suicide bombers

  Al Qaeda is kidnapping young children in troubled Somalia and brainwashing them to launch future attacks on the West, it has been claim...

Somali militants execute 3 said to inform CIA, MI6

Somalia 's most powerful militant group says it publicly executed three of its members because they had spied on the militants for t...

U.S. Is Cutting Aid to Rwanda

Rwanda for the year, citing evidence that the country was supporting rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The move, though involving...

Suicide blast hits Somali base

An al Shabaab suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the gate of a government base in Afgoye outside the Somali capi...