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There has been a new upsurge of piracy off Somalia, reports an agency associated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).
The United States Navy has announced the formation of an international force to provide security in the dangerous shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden off the Somali coast.
Thousands of people took to the streets after Friday prayers in the Muslim country of Somalia and neighboring Kenya, with protestors chanting anti-Israel slogans, Radio Garowe reports.
The mayor of a provincial capital in southwestern Somalia was killed on Friday by Islamist insurgents, Radio Garowe reports.
A United Nations team will head to the Horn of Africa next week to explore how the world body can support the African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in Somalia, which has seen an upsurge in violence in recent months despite the signing of a UN-facilitated peace accord last June.
The government of Kenya has assured Italy that it will do all it can to secure the release of two nuns held by gunmen in Somalia.
Unidentified, masked gunmen have shot dead a top Islamic Courts Union official and injured another one in Cabud Waaq district in Galgadud region, central Somalia, witnesses said on Friday.
Hundreds of Somali demonstrators protested after Friday prayers in Mogadishu and a number of other towns in the war-torn Somalia against the Israeli raids on Gaza Strip in the Middle East.
Ahead of his first visit to the continent with the fastest growing Catholic population worldwide, Pope Benedict XVI has urged Africans to build peace by fighting moral and material poverty.
A much-anticipated regional election in Somalia's self-governing State of Puntland ended peacefully on Thursday with the democratic election of Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed "Farole," Radio Garowe reports.
The Somali government soldiers have arrested a young boy in Aden Adde international airport in Mogadishu on Thursday, witnesses told Shabelle radio.
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A much-anticipated regional election in Somalia's self-governing State of Puntland ended peacefully on Thursday with the democratic election of Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed "Farole," Radio Garowe reports.
A top official aid worker with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has been shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Daynile district in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, witnesses told Shabelle radio
At least one government soldier has been killed and another one has been injured when Somali Islamist insurgents and government soldiers have clashed in Bulo-hubey neighborhood in Wadadjir district in Mogadishu on Thursday, witnesses told Shabelle radio.
The semi-autonomous of Puntland's parliament elected Abdurahman Mohamed Farole as the new president puntland in northeast of Somalia.
Top Ethiopian officer in Mogadishu reaffirmed Thursday that Ethiopia is committed to withdraw its troops from Somalia and waiting an order from Ethiopian government.
In the upcoming hours, Somalia's Puntland region will elect a new leader who will guide the region's politics for the next four years.
A radio reporter from Somalia is the first journalist in 2009 to be killed in the line of duty, report the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) and other IFEX members.
In 2008, the life and livelihood of Somali journalists were in danger and attacks to kill, hurt, harass and silence journalists were persistent throughout the year, according to the Annual Report of Press Freedom Violations in Somalia by the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ).
D r. Abdirahaman Mohamed "Farole" has been elected as the Regional President of Puntland State of Somalia on January 8, 2009, in the capital city Garowe.
Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, the Chairman of the Alliance for Re-libration of Somalia Djibouti wing who is in Libyan capital Tripoli has warned for the Somali transitional government to elect new president; Radio Shabelle interviews him on Thursday,
Independent media organizations have been banned from live coverage of tomorrow's presidential election in Somalia's Puntland region, Radio Garowe reports.
UGANDA faces a terror threat because of its stand against terrorism and participation in the African Union peace-keeping mission in Somalia.
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcome the release of British journalist Colin Freeman and Spanish photojournalist José Cendon on 4 January 2009. Freeman and Cendon both work for the "Daily Telegraph" newspaper.
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