News
Aid Workers, Residents, Struggle to Cope with Influx of Somali Refugees in Kenyan Camp
In Somalia, tensions between the rapidly-expanding Islamic Courts Union and the fledgling transitional government are escalating, prompting fears of a...
Read More »John Bolton resigns as ambassador to U.N.
ABC News' Jessica Yellin and Jonathan Karl Report: UN Ambassador John Bolton will end his service in the Bush...
Read More »Italian journalist briefly held in Somalia
Rome, Italy (Reuters) - Islamist militants in Somalia detained an Italian journalist this weekend over reports of his they said were incorrect, but ev...
Read More »Thousands of Somalis protest US attempt to ease arms embargo
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Thousands of Somalis have marched in the capital Mogadishu to oppose a US draft resolution aimed at easing the 1992 arms embargo and...
Read More »Somalia group, Ethiopian minister hold informal talks
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Officials of Somalia's Islamic movement stressed in an informal meeting with an Ethiopian minister that the group would onl...
Read More »Somalis rally against U.S. peacekeeping plan
MOGADISHU, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Thousands of Somalis chanted anti-American slogans on Monday at an Islamist protest against a U.S.-backed plan to send fo...
Read More »Somalia: Diaspora Group Hold Peace and Unity Conference
There are reports Somalia's transitional government Sunday sent hundreds of troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers to recapture the strategic southern to...
Read More »Worst floods for years devastate east Africa
NAIROBI, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The worst floods for years have killed at least 150 people and uprooted more than a million others in eastern Africa, aid w...
Read More »Somalian government sends troops to recapture strategic town
MOGADISHU, Somalia: The government has sent hundreds of troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers to recapture a strategic town seized by the country's powe...
Read More »WFP helicopters start delivering aid to flood victims in southeast Ethiopia
Two Mi-8 helicopters carrying emergency supplies have left to deliver humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of people stranded by another s...
Read More »