20120602 AP NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A private intelligence firm says the Somali militant group al-Shabab has threatened to bring down Kenya's skyscrapers within two weeks, a warning that followed a bomb attack in Nairobi's city center.
20120529 AFP Rwandan citizens have been recruited and trained to fight in support of army mutineers in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a confidential UN report obtained by the BBC.
20120515 AP KAKOLA, Uganda (AP) — American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab.
20120515 AFP Kenyan police arrested a Swedish national suspected to have links with the Somali Islamist militia Shebab, a senior police officer told AFP on Monday.
20120418 AP ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian troops fighting al-Qaida-linked militants in neighboring Somalia will soon return home, Ethiopia's prime minister said Tuesday.
20120311 AFP An offensive by Somalia's Islamist Shebab fighters on Ethiopian troops on Saturday left many combatants dead, military sources on both sides and witnesses told AFP.
20120306 AFP A Burundi soldier with the African Union troops was killed and another injured Monday in the north of Mogadishu, when a bomb they were defusing was detonated by Shebab rebels, a statement said.
20120305 Reuters (Reuters) - After three years of killings and violence under the rule of al Shabaab rebels, residents of the Somali city of Baidoa said they were happy to see the arrival of Ethiopian soldiers, whose presence they once resented.
20120221 AP TABDA, Somalia (AP) — An 80-year-old Somali woman fondly recalled her younger days. There was peace in Somalia then, and people in the town of Tabda in the arid scrublands of the country's south did not rely on the mercy of others for food.
20120212 AFP Kenya's army said on Saturday that four months of military strikes on Shebab rebels in southern Somalia have weakened the Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents and have disrupted their sources of revenue.
20120212 AP NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Al-Qaida's decision to formally extend its terror franchise to what once was a nationalist movement in Somalia may only be a desperate joining of hands to prop up two militant groups that are both losing popular support and facing increasingly deadly military attacks, analysts said Friday.
20120128 AFP Ethiopian Prime Minster Meles Zenawi said Friday he would pull troops out of Somalia "as soon as feasible," admitting for the first time that forces had crossed into the war-torn neighbouring country.
20120120 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's army has clashed with rebels in Blue Nile state, which borders South Sudan and where fighting has been going on for five months, but the army denied on Thursday that rebels had shot down a helicopter.
20120119 Reuters KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda has arrested four military generals for alleged business dealings across the border in mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo, an army spokesman said on Wednesday.
20120115 AFP Somalia's Islamist Shebab insurgents paraded Friday two Kenyan hostages kidnapped in revenge for Nairobi's troop deployment against the Al-Qaeda-linked group, rebels and witnesses said.
20120102 AFP Ethiopian troops and Somali government forces seized control of a key Somali city Saturday after battling Islamist rebels on the outskirts, leaving at least 18 people dead, witnesses said.
20120102 AP NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of Ethiopian troops poured into a western Somalia border town on Saturday, opening a new front against the militant group al-Shabab, which now faces hostile militaries on three sides.
20120101 Reuters (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops captured a rebel-held town in central Somalia on Saturday, Addis Ababa and residents said, in a new front against the al Qaeda-linked militants who are seen as a threat to the region's stability.
20111225 AFP Six people were wounded in Kenya on Saturday when a grenade exploded in a bar in a town bordering Somalia, the latest such attack since Nairobi sent troops into its war-torn neighbour, police said.
