Somalia’s Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke has unveiled his 26-member cabinet nearly a month after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud appointed him to the top job.
Somalia’s al-Shabab militant group has reportedly appointed a new leader after it confirmed the death of its former head Ahmed Abdi Godane in a recent US airstrike.
Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed has confirmed resignation of his security minister in the wake of al-Shabab’s deadly attack on the parliament building in the capital Mogadishu, which killed at least 10 people.
Newly-displaced people in Somalia are facing a dire situation after the government launched another military operation against local fighters, Press TV reports.
A new report reveals that the United States has deployed a group of military advisers to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, for the first time since early 1990s.
A lawmaker and his driver have been killed after a powerful car bomb exploded outside prime minister's office in Somali capital city of Mogadishu, security sources say.
At least two people have been killed in an attack carried out by a US assassination drone in southern Somalia, an al-Shabab militant and a senior US military official have said.