Somalia

Matters of strategy are behind Israel's drive to recognise Somaliland, analysts say, as Arab nations worry about instability in the region. 

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis has alleged that a US air strike has hit a detention centre in Saada that holds African migrants. 

After 400 days in prison in Egypt, Peter Greste was released in 2015. He turned the ordeal into a memoir about press freedom, and now a movie, starring Richard Roxburgh.

The strikes are the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump’s second term. 

A suicide bomber and gunmen attack a busy beach in the Somali capital, killing 32 people and injuring scores more in one of the country's deadliest attacks in months.

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India says all 17 crew members of the Maltese-flagged MV Ruen are safe after commandos forced the surrender of 35 Somali pirates who hijacked the cargo vessel.

Aid agencies are warning this could just be the beginning of an even worse humanitarian crisis.

Some families say they have nowhere to hide from deadly flooding, as rainfall exacerbated by El Niño pummels parts of Somalia.

Somalia's university union says it has not sent any runners to the World University Games in China, but Nasra Abukar still appeared in the 100m heats, running an embarrassingly slow race.

Russia's withdrawal from a pact that saw millions of tonnes of grain shipped from the Black Sea has already sparked fears of another spike in global food prices.

More than 40,000 people, half of them children younger than five, have died in Somalia over the past year because of a hunger crisis fuelled by drought and conflict.

Somalia is experiencing its worst drought in 40 years. With the world distracted by the war in Ukraine, the crisis is escalating away from the public gaze. 

Aisha's hometown is trapped between ruthless militants and the worst drought in four decades. So she made a decision no mother should have to make.

A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children.

A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children.

Rainfall trends in a historic Horn of Africa drought are now worse than they were during the 2011 drought when at least a quarter of million people died, according to a climate centre. 

A recent report on the impact of the global hunger crisis has found women and girls are bearing the brunt of the disaster.

US special forces kill a senior Islamic State group official and 10 other terrorist operatives in remote northern Somalia, administration officials say.

Somalia's government and Al Qaeda-linked fighters claim more than 100 people were killed in the deadliest battle since the government launched a major military offensive against extremists in August.