Uganda is reluctant to take over military bases manned by Ethiopian troops serving under the new African Union Support and ...

CAIRO, Egypt - After weeks of deep consultations with the federal government of Somalia, Egypt has settled on the deployment ...

The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in ...

Finding and fighting the militants who have become the beating heart of the Islamic State (IS) group in Africa can be tough ...

Calm seems to have broken in the past ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first ...

As a landlocked country, Ethiopia has expressed dissatisfaction at its reliance on the Port of Djibouti for access to the Red Sea. Recently, Prime Minister Abiy stated that control of the Red Sea and ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Puntland security forces, backed by international allies, carried out an air and ground operation against the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Iskushuban, a town in the Bari ...

In Puntland, one of the five federal states of Somalia, authorities have realised they have a mammoth problem on their hands. As the 2024 approached its end, a group of extremists launched a suicide ...

Analysts say Uganda will follow in the footsteps of Egypt and Ethiopia, which are pushing ... Al Shabaab and the phased handover of military bases, but Somali commanders and donors, rejected ...

Envoys from countries that contribute troops to Somalia have been accumulating ... Envoys from Uganda, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Burundi first flew to New York in September last year, on ...

"There was heavy fighting and casualties inflicted on both sides, but we don't have more details about this incident so far," local military commander ... against Somalia's fragile central ...