Somalia
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US carries out strike against IS in Somalia
Mar 31, 2025According to Africa Command, the US military killed multiple IS members in an airstrike against the group on Saturday in Somalia’s Puntland region. The European-based command stated in a statement that the most recent raid was... -
UN approves new AU force to take on Al-Shabaab in Somalia
Dec 28, 2024The UN Security Council on Friday gave the green light to a new African Union force in Somalia that is meant to take on the Islamist armed group Al-Shabaab, with the soldiers due to deploy in... -
Denmark, Greece, Somalia among incoming Security Council members
Jun 8, 2024At the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia were chosen by secret ballot to fill the 2025–2026 term on the Security Council. The United States, China, France, Russia, Britain, and China... -
Hijacked vessels MV Abdullah anchored at Garakad coast in Somalia
Mar 16, 2024According to Captain Sakhawat Hossain, General Secretary of the Bangladesh Merchant Marine Officers Association, the Bangladeshi vessel MV Abdullah was taken over by Somali pirates on Thursday at 2:00 pm as it was anchored off the... -
Death toll from Somalia floods nears 100
Nov 24, 2023The government of Somalia announced on Thursday that about two million people had been affected by the disastrous floods that had claimed close to 100 lives. Like other nations in the Horn of Africa, Somalia is... -
Somalia floods kill 29, displace 300,000 people
Nov 9, 2023As El Nino downpours pound East Africa, flash flooding in southwest Somalia has killed over twenty-two and uprooted hundreds of thousands from their homes, according to an official. Severe rainstorms that began at the beginning of... -
Pro-Somalia militia takes key army base in breakaway region
Aug 27, 2023A militia allied with the Somali government announced on Friday that it has taken control of a significant army base in Somaliland’s southernmost area. Months of fighting between Somaliland troops and a clan militia opposing the... -
Flooding in Somalia displaces 200,000 people
May 14, 2023A regional official told AFP on Saturday that flash floods in central Somalia had displaced approximately 200,000 people after the Shabelle River breached its banks and inundated highways. Residents of Beledweyne town in Hiran region were... -
New study finds that 43,000 “excess deaths” may have occurred in 2022 from the drought in Somalia
Mar 21, 2023A new report released today by the Federal Ministry of Health & Human Services, WHO and UNICEF suggests that an estimated 43,000 excess deaths might have occurred in 2022 in Somalia resulting from a deepening drought... -
The humanitarian situation in Somalia remains extremely serious
Dec 15, 2022The efforts of national and local Authorities and the scale up of humanitarian assistance to respond to the impact of the longest and most severe drought in Somalia’s recent history has prevented famine thresholds from being...
