A car bomb attack in Somalia’s central region of Galkayo has claimed the lives of at least five people, including the attacker, police say.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has set plans to feed 1.6 million people in Somalia, who are in a dire need of food, Press TV reports.

Leaders of the five-month-old government in Somalia have said that authorities will do more to protect victims of rape in the Horn of African nation.

The Somali government has charged a woman who has said she was raped by security forces, according to an international human rights group, which says the case is politically motivated.

An Alabama native who moved to Somalia to wage jihad alongside al-Shabab militants faces a Saturday deadline to surrender to the insurgents or be killed, according to his Internet posting.

The Africa Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has vowed to protect human rights of the Somali people as the world marked the International Human Rights Day on Monday.

Somali government forces backed by African Union peacekeeping troops on Sunday seized from rebel fighters a key provincial capital in the center of the Horn of Africa country, residents and officials said.

Nearly 30 people have been killed and 20 others injured in fierce clashes which broke out between rival clans on Saturday in central Somali province of Galgadud for over grazing and water rights, elders and a local official said on Sunday.

Somalia's parliament on Tuesday unanimously approved the new 10-minister government of Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon

The European Union has welcomed a move by the Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon to form a lean cabinet which will for the first time comprise a woman.

The European Union and Somalia government are working together to improve governance, education and crate jobs in the Horn of Africa nation.

At least 62 al-Shabab militants have been arrested by African Union (AU) troops and Somali government forces during an operation in the northwest of Mogadishu, Press TV reports . z`

The list of murdered Somali journalists keeps growing longer, and no one seems able to stop it.

An official in Somalia says that police forces are under process to launch fresh operations to beef up the overall security of Mogadishu, a day after 20 people wounded in wedding bombing in Hodon district.

At least 24 people have been killed in a fresh US assassination drone strike near the Gedo region in southwestern Somalia, Press TV reports.

Mogadishu — String of attacks have rocked on Monday across Somalia's southern port city of Kismayo, 500 Km south of Mogadishu, wounding scores of people, including government soldiers, Witnesses and Officials said.

A US assassination drone strike has claimed the lives of at least 29 people in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.

Somali pirates have released a Greek-owned bulk carrier that they seized in the Arabian Sea after receiving a multi-million dollar ransom.

Mogadishu — Police commander in Somalia says their security forces arrested over 300 suspected Al-Shebab fighters during an operation in the capital Mogadishu.

More than 25 al-Shabab fighters have been killed and 30 others wounded in the latest firefight between government forces and the militants in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.