20120722
AP
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Security forces of a semi-autonomous region in northern Somalia seized a boat carrying weapons that were being smuggled from al-Qaida militants in Yemen to fighters in Somalia, an official said Saturday.

20120721
AFP
Somalia has made strides toward food security one year since its famine but the situation remains critical, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said Friday.

20120719
AP
DOLO, Somalia (AP) — The long, dusty walks from hungry homes to far-away refugee camps are again claiming lives in Somalia one year after an estimated 100,000 people died in the country's worst famine in generations.

20120713
AFP
Cholera is rising in the last major town held by Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shehab, with most of those stricken by the disease children, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday.

20120708
AFP
Somali security forces said Saturday they had detained over 500 people in a two-day operation in the Mogadishu area who were either Islamist rebel fighters or had have links to them.

20120703
AFP
International donors on Monday said Somalia's new constitution must enshrine principles of religious freedom and stressed that the country's political transition should be completed by August 20.

20120703
AFP
Four foreign aid workers kidnapped in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp were released overnight in southern Somalia after a short gunfight, arriving back safely in the Kenyan capital later on Monday.

20120630
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police and military forces on Saturday pursued Somali attackers and their four foreign hostages taken from a refugee camp a day earlier, but a police commander said it was possible the group had crossed into Somalia.

20120626
AP
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Somali military official says hundreds of African Union and Somali troops have swept into a town north of Mogadishu, forcing al-Shabab militants to flee.

20120624
Press TV
African Union (AU) troops and Somali government soldiers force al-Shabab fighters to cede more captured territory, Press TV reports.

20120624
Press TV
At least 39 people have been killed in two US assassination drone attacks in Somalia, the latest of Washington's non-UN-sanctioned airstrikes in other countries, Press TV reports.

20120623
AFP
Somalia's leaders said Friday they have adopted a draft constitution, billed as the key to lifting the Horn of Africa nation out of two decades of instability and civil war.

20120623
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalia's political leaders have approved a draft constitution the U.N. says was almost seven years in the making.

20120620
AFP
The number of successful Somali pirate attacks has fallen but international navies must not drop their guard and keep up the pressure, the commander of the EU mission said Tuesday.