Somalia asks UN to delay peacekeeper drawdown after ‘significant setbacks’

Somalia has asked the United Nations to pause a planned drawdown of 3 000 African Union peacekeepers
Somalia bans TikTok, Telegram, 1XBet over ‘horrific’ content, misinformation

Somalia has banned TikTok, messaging app Telegram and online-betting website 1XBet to limit the
Uganda confirms casualties among country’s soldiers in Somali attack

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni said late on Saturday there had been casualties during an attack
U.S. military says Somalia strike killed 30 al Shabaab fighters

A U.S. military strike has killed approximately 30 al Shabaab militants near the central Somali town
Blasts target troops in central Somalia

One person was killed and at least six others injured in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint
Suspected fighters kill four road workers in eastern Kenya

Four workers from Kenya’s highways agency were killed in an ambush by suspected militants on
Somalia militants kill six in raid on village

Al Shabaab militants killed at least six people on Friday while raiding a village in central Somalia
Somalia militants kill six in raid on village

Al Shabaab militants killed at least six people on Friday while raiding a village in central Somalia
Somali troops overpower militants to end hotel siege

Somali security forces stormed a hotel in the capital on Monday to end a near day-long siege by al
Suspected al-Shabaab militants attack Somalian military base

Suspected al Shabaab militants attacked a Somali military base in the central Galgaduud region on
Suspected al Shabaab attackers abduct four in Kenya, including paramedics: Police

Attackers suspected to be members of Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group have abducted two
Somalia says it killed al Shabaab co-founder

Somalia’s government says late on Sunday that it had killed Abdullahi Nadir, one of the co-founders
US kills 27 Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia air strike

The US military said on Wednesday it had killed 27 fighters from the Al-Shabaab militant group in an
More than 700 children have died in Somalia nutrition centres: UN

Hundreds of children have died in nutrition centres across Somalia, the UN children’s agency
At least 12 killed in Somalia hotel siege, intelligence officer says

At least 12 people have been killed in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu after al Shabaab militants
Somalia appoints Al-Shabaab co-founder as religion minister

Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Tuesday named a co-founder and spokesman of the Al-Shabaab
Somali militia, former government ally, captures two towns from federal forces

A militia previously allied to the Somali government in its fight against militant group al Shabaab
Somalia’s Puntland sends troops to fight al Shabaab in neighbouring state

Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland said on Friday it had sent forces to the neighbouring
Suicide bomber kills six police officers in Somali capital: Police

A suicide bomber killed six police officers in front of a district police station in the Somali
Tanzania accused of turning away Mozambican asylum seekers

The asylum seekers had fled Palma after non-state actor militants attacked the area in March,