Somalia

TILLERSON confirms that Trump was joking when he called Africa SHITHOLE

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, flanked by his chief of staff Margaret Peterlin (L), meets with Ethiopia Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 8, 2018. Tillerson Reaffirms US Commitment to Africa ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (VOA) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has re-affirmed the U.S. commitment to Africa, two months after President Donald Trump’s reported derogatory comments about the continent. “I think the United States commitment to Africa is quite clear in terms of the importance we place on the relationship,” said Tillerson at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “The president himself wrote Read More

SOMALIA: Extremists attack army base in southern Mogadishu; 5 killed

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Associated Press) — Somali military officers say at least four soldiers and a photographer embedded with the army were killed in an attack by Islamic extremists on an Read More

Car bombs shake Somali military base, deaths reported

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A government military base in south Somalia was struck by car bombs and gunfire on Wednesday, residents and military officers said, with the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab Read More

SOMALIA: Mogadishu Mayor Omar Osman dies in hospital after suicide attack

Mayor Osman was being treated in Qatar after last month’s suicide attack inside his office in Somalia’s capital. By AL JAZEERA, NEWS AGENCIES Osman was initially wounded in a July Read More

SOMALIA: Mogadishu Mayor Omar Osman dies in hospital after suicide attack

Mayor Osman was being treated in Qatar after last month’s suicide attack inside his office in Somalia’s capital. By AL JAZEERA, NEWS AGENCIES Osman was initially wounded in a July Read More

SOMALIA: Mogadishu Mayor Omar Osman dies in hospital after suicide attack

Mayor Osman was being treated in Qatar after last month’s suicide attack inside his office in Somalia’s capital. By AL JAZEERA, NEWS AGENCIES Osman was initially wounded in a July Read More

Ugandan troops arrive in Somalia to beef up security for UN staff

MOGADISHU, July 26 (Xinhua) — Some 625 Ugandan peacekeepers have arrived in Mogadishu to begin duties of supporting the UN efforts to bring peace and stability to the Horn of Read More

SOMALIA: Suicide bomber detonates in Mogadishu mayor’s office killing 6

Medical workers help civilian on stretcher who was wounded in suicide bomb, at Madina hospital, Mogadishu, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. A suicide bomber walked into the office of Mogadishu’s mayor Read More

SOMALIA: Suicide bomber detonates in Mogadishu mayor’s office

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Associated Press) — Police in Somalia say a suicide bomber has walked into the office of Mogadishu’s mayor during a security meeting and detonated explosives strapped to his Read More

SOMALIA: Car bomb blast near Mogadishu airport kills 10, injures 15

Medical workers help a man who was wounded in a car bomb attack, at Medina hospital, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, July 22, 2019. A Somali police officer says a car Read More

SOMALIA: Al-Shabab attack underway in Mogadishu hotel

Al-Shabab was ejected from Mogadishu in 2011 and has since been driven from most of its other strongholds [Al Jazeera] By AL JAZEERA & NEWS AGENCIES A car bomb went Read More