It was very early on the morning of June 1 when a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado departed the Somali town of Bulogudud, 30 kilometers north of Kismayo. Almost immediately, two U.S. military...
Sudan has extradited a man suspected of being behind a migrant trafficking network to Italy, Italian police said Wednesday. The Eritrean Medhanie Yehdego Mered, 35, was arrested in Khartoum at the end of...
A U.N. whistleblower, who was suspended for leaking a confidential report alleging sexual abuse by peacekeepers in Africa, has resigned over what he says is the organization’s failure to hold senior officials accountable....
Sagal Salad Osman, a Somali female journalist working for the state-run Radio and TV, was shot and killed in Mogadishu Sunday. Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu, secretary general of the National Union of Somali Journalists,...
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has assumed the leadership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), promising to consolidate peace and security, and calling on member states to work even harder...
Niger says hundreds of Boko Haram extremists attacked a military outpost late Friday, killing at least 32 soldiers and wounding nearly 70 others near its southern borders with Nigeria and Chad. The Niger...
West African leaders discussed setting up a force to combat extremists in the region and will send an observation mission to Gambia before elections, the regional economic body said Saturday. The decisions were...
The top law enforcement officer in Minnesota says the recent conviction of three Somali American men on terrorism charges should be a “wakeup call” for some members of the local ethnic Somali community...
According to a new joint report issued by united nations enviromental program (UNEP) and interpol, Kenya loses 70,000 hectares of forest each year to illegal logging. The report, released ahead of this weekend’s...
GENEVA— As Sudan’s South Kordofan province prepares to mark the fifth anniversary of war on Sunday, the U.N. refugee agency reports thousands of people continue to flee the region, with no let-up in...
