Somalia, Africa

NAIROBI Tuesday, November 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Flash floods in south-western Gedo region have displaced hundreds of families and inundated hectares of...

NAIROBI Thursday, November 06, 2008 (IRIN) - The UN has called for the immediate release of four aid workers and two pilots who were abducted on 5...

HARGEISA Monday, November 10, 2008 (IRIN) - Somalis displaced to the self-styled independent republic of Somaliland from other parts of the Horn of...

HARGEISA Monday, November 17, 2008 (IRIN) - Authorities in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland have embarked on efforts to reduce charcoal...

NAIROBI Monday, November 17, 2008 (IRIN) - The widening split between Somalia's leaders could lead to the total collapse of the transitional federal...

NAIROBI Tuesday, November 18, 2008 (IRIN) - At least 100 people have died in the past four weeks after an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) in...

NAIROBI Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (IRIN) - At least 8,000 hectares of farmland in southern Somalia's Lower Shabelle region have been destroyed...

More than $150 million have been paid to pirates around the Horn of Africa over the past 12 months.The money is encouraging them to continue and...

Somali security forces and Islamic insurgents engaged in one of the fiercest gunbattles in recent weeks in the capital on Friday. At least 17 people...

Vela International Marine, the Saudi Arabian company that owns the MV Sirius Star oil tanker which was captured by pirates on November 15, have begun...