(SomaliNet) Kenya on Wednesday woke up to the piracy shock in its economy with an announcement that it is teaming up with Somalia to ensure the safety of ships around the Gulf of Aden.
Kenya’s foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetangula and his Somalia counterpart Ali Jamma said though naval secur
(SomaliNet) A government official said on Friday that a ship laden with cement was hijacked in the pirate-ridden waters between Somalia and Yemen.
The panama-flagged Wail was en route to Bosasso from Oman and was attacked between the Yemeni Island of Socotra and Bosasso just hours after Somali pi
(SomaliNet) Witnesses said an unidentified aircraft bombed an Islamist rebel stronghold in Somalia Thursday, but it was unclear if there were any casualties.
Meanwhile, in recent months, U.S. forces have launched several airstrikes inside Somalia against al Shabaab insurgents who have been fighti
(SomaliNet) According to officials, security forces on Wednesday freed a British national working for a Canadian oil firm in Somalia's breakaway region of Puntland, hours after gunmen had kidnapped him.
Press reports say the gunmen had snatched the man in an area called Daror, in the northern Som
(SomaliNet) Kenya is set to begin training up to 10,000 Somali troops. Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula told African ambassadors meeting at the Serena Hotel that the training of the military, paramilitary and police officers will be carried out according to local training programme
(SomaliNet) A local security official said a British national working for an oil company operating in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northeast Somalia was on Wednesday freed hours after being hijacked by two of his bodyguards.
One of the kidnappers was killed and the other was severel
(SomaliNet) The aid agency Oxfam said on Friday that the number of Ethiopians needing emergency food assistance has jumped to 6.4 million from 4.6 million in June.
Meanwhile, drought and high food prices have both contributed to the worsening crisis in Ethiopia and other parts of the Horn of Afri
(SomaliNet) A local Somali government official said security forces from northern Somalia killed a pirate and wounded two others during a shoot-out on Sunday with hijackers aboard a Panama-flagged ship. One soldier was killed.
State minister for the semi-autonomous Puntland region, Ali Abdi Aware
(SomaliNet) A military plane which has taken off from the Burundian capital Bujumbura military base landed at Somalia’s Adan Ade international airport on Monday morning.
The troops’ arrival on Monday was the third day when planes laden with Burundian troops in the Somali capital as part of p
(SomaliNet) A spokesman said Monday that Somali pirates holding an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia may extend the deadline on their threat to destroy the vessel.
Media reports say in Kiev, angry relatives of the ship's crew members demanded that Ukraine's government stop delaying and just
