20120319
Press TV
A US-born fighter viewed as a key foreign leader in Somalia's al-Qaeda-allied al-Shabab militant group says he fears for his life and is in danger from fellow al-Shabab fighters, Press TV reports.

20120319
Press TV
After almost a decade of being in power, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia is still struggling to produce an effective plan to provide the people’s basic needs, Press TV reports.

20120318
AP
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A large amount of food sent by the U.N. to the Somali capital during last year's famine never reached the starving people it was intended for, an Associated Press investigation has found.

20120314
AFP
Somalia's Shebab rebels Tuesday banned the aid group Save the Children from operating in regions under their control, levelling a string of accusations against the organisation.

20120314
AP
DHOBLEY, Somalia (AP) — Adan Abdi worries that the students in his class show too little interest in education. That might be a common complaint among teachers, but Abdi's concerns go further: His students are interested in playing war.

20120313
AP
IBANDA, Uganda (AP) — A military instructor clad in fatigues and boots who barks out orders to men half her age has become the unlikely star of a European Union program to train thousands of Somali troops.

20120311
AFP
African Union troops are set to replace Ethiopian forces in two Somali cities recently taken from Shebab rebels, the AU Commissioner for the Peace and Security Council said Friday.

20120307
AFP
War-torn Somalia has applied to join the East African Community, a five-member bloc with a single market allowing free trade and movement of citizens, the group's current chair Kenya said.

20120307
AP
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Turkish Airlines started flying into Somalia's war-torn capital Tuesday, becoming the first international company to fly passenger planes into Mogadishu in more than 20 years.

20120307
AFP
As naval forces tighten the noose around Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, the idyllic Seychelles archipelago has been overrun with convicted brigands and is calling for international support.

20120307
AFP
The first long-distance international commercial airliner in some two decades to fly to Somalia's war-torn capital landed on its maiden flight at Mogadishu airport Tuesday.

20120305
AFP
The walls of the former Shebab base in Baidoa, Somalia, are littered with rudimentary drawings of machine guns and tanks, a note reading "Fear God, don't write on these walls" and a sketch of an Al-Qaeda flag, homage to the rebel group's international allies.

20120304
AFP
A car bomb exploded on Saturday near a military base housing Burundian soldiers from an African Union peacekeeping force in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing the driver, police said.

20120303
AFP
African Union-backed Somali government troops attacked and seized positions of hardline Shebab insurgents in the war-torn capital Mogadishu on Friday, officials said.

20120229
AFP
Gunmen on Tuesday shot down the head of a radio station in Mogadishu, the latest in a string of attacks on journalists in war-torn Somalia, police and a colleague said.

20120228
AFP
An explosion killed three people Monday at a football match in the war-torn Somali capital Mogadishu, police and medical officials said.

20120228
AFP
Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said Monday he hoped his country would be free of Al-Qaeda allied Shebab fighters in the next few months, following advances by pro-government and foreign troops.

20120220
AFP
Somalia's disparate leaders have agreed on the basic structure of a new parliament and government to replace the fragile transitional body that has failed to bring peace to the war-torn country.

20120218
AFP
Somalia's Al-Qaeda-allied Shebab rebels warned Saturday they were stepping up a bombing campaign in the war-torn capital Mogadishu, a day after a car bomb at a police station wounded two.

20120218
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group is suspected of killing at least 30 Kenyan civilians since Kenyan troops entered Somalia, a police spokesman said Saturday.