A suicide bomber Tuesday detonated explosives outside the prime minister’s home in Somalia’s presidential palace compound, killing two people, security officials said. Al-Qaida-linked militants claimed responsibility for the attack. The man blew himself up in the morning when questioned by soldiers at a checkpoint in the palace complex known as Villa Somalia, said Mohamed Ali, [...]

The Government of the Republic of Somaliland takes its responsibility to protect foreign nationals living and working in the country very seriously. International organisations, multinational businesses and other foreign entities have been operating securely in Somaliland for many years, thanks to the resources we have invested in our security institutions, and the willingness of the [...]

ADDIS ABABA– Minister for Africa and Somali Foreign Minister co-chair meeting of international community on Somalia at the AU Summit in Addis Ababa.After the meeting, the Minister for Africa, Mark Simmonds, and the Somali Foreign Minister, Her Excellency Fauzia Yusuf Adam, spoke about the Somalia Conference being held in the UK on 7th May. Mr [...]

British citizens should immediately leave the Somaliland region of Somalia because of a specific threat to Westerners, British diplomats said Sunday. In a statement emailed to reporters, Britain’s Foreign Office did not go into any further detail about the nature of the threat but noted that “kidnapping for financial or political gain, motivated by criminality [...]

LONDON – The Times of London says a secret section of a United Nations report has linked British citizens with Somali piracy. The newspaper says that a 2012 report drawn up by the UN’s Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea carried a secret annex naming a British businessman of Somali origin as one of the [...]

NAIROBI, Jan 25 – Twitter suspended the account of Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shabaab insurgents on Friday, days after they posted photographs of a French commando they killed and threatened to execute Kenyan hostages.   A message from Twitter on the English-language @HSMPress account read that it had “been suspended”, without elaborating. However, Somali and Arabic [...]

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Minnesota has the largest Somali population in the nation, with an estimated population of 32,000 people. WCCO has told you stories of how some young Somalis have struggled to adjust to life here, while others have even been lured back to Somalia to fight for terrorist groups. Some young Somalis find they [...]

Somali insurgents linked to al Qaeda have demanded that Kenya release all Muslims held on terror charges within three weeks, failing which they said they would kill their Kenyan hostages. Al Shabaab said it killed French hostage Denis Allex last week to avenge what it called France’s growing persecution of Muslims and its military operations [...]

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Rights groups on Wednesday called for the Somali  government to release a journalist arrested by police for interviewing a woman  who said she was raped by government security forces. The freelance journalist, Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim, and three others accused  in the case have been held for more than a week without charge, [...]