Somalia’s first forensic lab targets rape impunity
The new freezers at Somalia’s only forensic laboratory can store thousands of DNA samples, although for now there are just five. The big hope is that they could be the start of…
Somalia forces demolish thousands of schools: Amnesty International
MOGADISHU: New satellite imagery analysis by Amnesty International gives the first comprehensive view of how thousands of structures, including several schools, were demolished in suddenly forced evictions that left more than 4,000 families homeless…
Suicide bomber kills 13 in police academy attack in Somali capital
MOGADISHU: A suicide bomber in a police uniform blew himself up inside a police training camp in Somalia´s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least 13 police officers, officials said. Police spokesman…
Somalia a gateway to Africa for trade via Gwadar: PM
ISTANBUL: Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Wednesday said that Somalia was strategically important to Pakistan as its port cities could act as a gateway to Africa for potential trade via…
Fifth Somali journalist killed this year
MOGADISHU: A Somali television journalist was killed by a car bomb in front of his children, relatives said, the fifth murder of a journalist in the war-torn country this year. Mohamed Ibrahim…
Pakistan Navy provides assistance to Somalian cargo ship
KARACHI: Pakistan Navy Ship (PNS) ZULFIQAR while on counter-piracy deployment, patrolling in the Gulf of Aden, rendered assistance to a stranded dhow/boat of Somalia. During voyage at sea, the dhow became non-operational due to…
PNS Tariq provides assistance to stranded Yemeni cargo dhow at sea
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Navy Ship (PNS) TARIQ, while patrolling in the Gulf of Aden, observed a stranded cargo dhow/boat namely ABDAIHAN of Yemen. Upon investigation, it was revealed that the boat left Boosaaso…
US drone strike kills more than 100 Al-Shabab in Somalia
WASHINGTON: US forces conducted an air strike against the al Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab group in Somalia on Tuesday, killing more than 100 militants, military officials said. “In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia,…
US strikes IS in Somalia for first time, killing ‘several terrorists’
WASHINGTON: The US conducted a pair of drone strikes against Islamic State fighters in Somalia on Friday, the first time America has hit the jihadists in the Horn of Africa nation, officials…
Deadly attacks rock Somalia capital
Mogadishu: Security forces in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have ended a 15-hour siege of a hotel stormed by armed militants. The gunmen entered the building after two bombs were detonated in the…
Seven killed in roadside bombing outside Somali capital Mogadishu
MOGADISHU: A roadside bomb killed at least seven people on Sunday – mostly women farmers – in an area outside the Somali capital dominated by insurgents who have defied public protests to…
US drone targets al-Shabab after Somalia’s ‘deadliest attack’
WASHINGTON: The US military said on Friday it carried out a drone strike this week against al-Shabab in Somalia, shortly after the extremist group was blamed for the country’s deadliest attack. The strike…
Death toll from Somalia bomb attacks tops 300
MOGADISHU: More than 300 people died in twin bomb explosions in Mogadishu, an official said on Monday, as locals packed hospitals in search of friends and relatives caught up in Somalia’s deadliest…
Five injured, Somalian suspect arrested as Canada probes ‘act of terrorism’
Canadian police arrested a Somalian man early Sunday suspected of stabbing an officer and deliberately ramming pedestrians during a high-speed chase in a rented truck, injuring four in what Prime Minister Justin…
Two explosions kill 8 near Mogadishu airport
At least eight people were killed on Tuesday when two huge bombs went off near Mogadishu’s airport, including one close to the UN’s political office in the Somali capital, a security source…
Shabaab gunmen take several hostages in suicide attack on Mogadishu hotel
Somalia’s al Shabaab group launched a suicide bomb attack on a hotel in the centre of Mogadishu on Saturday before fighters stormed inside, police and the militant group said. Police said at…
30 killed in twin blasts in Somalia
Somalia’s Al Shabab terrorist group bombed a busy junction and a nearby restaurant in the town of Baidoa on Sunday, killing at least 30 people, police and the group said. Al Shabab…