“Get these coordinates,” he ordered his military grid reference system specialist Capt David Onyango, at the headquarters of Uganda contingent of the African Union Transition Mission in ...

And it is easy to get hold of a gun in Somalia - even in Eyl you can pick up an AK-47 for about $1,200, a legacy of its two-decade civil war and years of lawlessness. Farah and Diiriye say they ...

Somalia never had a grand reconciliation process —no truth commissions, no national mourning, no moment of reckoning. The war ...

Over 20 people were killed and more than 10 others wounded during two days of fighting between Islamic State fighters and security forces from Somalia’s Puntland region, officials said Tuesday.

“As soon as we stepped foot on the ship, our guns were already drawn.” He said there were two armed Somali guards on board but neither resisted. “Once they realised we outnumbered and ...

Two artificial stars hover high above the guns and the gunners ... from Tanzania captured in the heartland of Jubaland in Somalia. They were trying to adapt to a new life in a tiny cell very ...

In May, Al-Shabab fighters, using suicide blasts, overran an army base, killing 73 soldiers and seizing vehicles. The claims ...

Five Kenyan local government officials were abducted Monday in an ambush by al-Shabab terrorists in Mandera County near the ...