Somalia, Africa

British reporter Colin Freeman of The Sunday Telegraph (R) and Spanish freelance photographer Jose Cendon Somali abductors have released two foreign...

Ethiopia has started pulling its troops out of Somalia, where they have been helping the Western-backed government fight an Islamist insurgency for...

A reporter for Somalia's Shabelle Radio was shot and killed Thursday during a gun battle south of Mogadishu, the network reported.Hassan Mayow Hassan...

UNICEF has introduced an emergency food supplement to prevent malnutrition in over 100,000 of the most vulnerable children in Somalia. ‘Plumpy’Doz’,...

NAIROBI Wednesday, December 03, 2008 (IRIN) - Women in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, north-eastern Somalia, are calling for...

NAIROBI Friday, December 05, 2008 (IRIN) - “Somalia has the highest levels of malnutrition in the world”, with up to 300,000 children acutely...

NAIROBI Monday, December 01, 2008 (IRIN) - Greater resources and international support for civil society working in Somalia are needed to reach more...

HARGEISA Friday, November 28, 2008 (IRIN) - Children in parts of Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland have never gone to school because...

NAIROBI Wednesday, November 26, 2008 (IRIN) - The parties to the peace talks aimed at ending the conflict in Somalia have reached a power-sharing...

A British and Spanish journalist in Somalia have been kidnapped from the north-eastern Puntland region, local authorities say. Government officials...