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

US Reopens Permanent USAID Mission in Somalia

Women who fled drought queue to receive food distributed by local volunteers at a camp for displaced persons in the Daynile neighborhood on the outskirts of Mogadishu, in Somalia, May Read More

SOMALIA: 11 killed, 25 hurt as explosions rock Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Associated Press) — A pair of explosions rocked Somalia’s capital and left 11 people dead, the country’s police chief said Saturday, as the al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab claimed Read More

More Somali Refugees Return Home as Conditions in Yemen Worsen

Somali refugee Saeed Salim Sa’ad Barshaid prepares to return home on a ferry from Aden, Yemen. (UNHCR/Ahmed Abdullah Bahulais) GENEVA (VOA News) — A boat with 125 Somali refugees fleeing Read More

AFRICA: Ethiopia colonises Somalia

A screen grab of a map that incorporated Somalia into Ethiopia. PHOTO | SCREEN GRAB | BBC Ethiopia sorry for map which wipes out Somalia By BBC Ethiopia’s Ministry of Read More

AFRICA: Ethiopia colonises Somalia

A screen grab of a map that incorporated Somalia into Ethiopia. PHOTO | SCREEN GRAB | BBC Ethiopia sorry for map which wipes out Somalia By BBC Ethiopia’s Ministry of Read More

AFRICA: Ethiopia colonises Somalia

A screen grab of a map that incorporated Somalia into Ethiopia. PHOTO | SCREEN GRAB | BBC Ethiopia sorry for map which wipes out Somalia By BBC Ethiopia’s Ministry of Read More

At least 3 killed in suicide car bombing in Somali capital

Somali soldiers walk near a destroyed building after a car bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, May 14, 2019.(AP Photo/Farahj Abdi Warsameh) MOGADISHU, Somalia (Associated Press) — A police officer says Read More

U.S. air strike kills 13 Islamic State fighters in Somalia: U.S. military

NAIROBI (Reuters) – A U.S. air strike killed 13 Islamic State fighters in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region on Wednesday, the U.S. military said, days after another strike killed three. The Read More

SOMALIA: Bomb kills 4, injures 5 in Mogadishu

Four killed, five injured in Mogadishu car bomb WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 2019 A boy walks past the site of a car bomb attack near a security checkpoint in the Somali Read More

SOMALIA: Airstrike Kills Deputy Leader of IS

FILE – U.S. Air Force officer passes in front of a MQ-9 Reaper drone, one of a squadron that has arrived to step up the fight against the Taliban, at Read More