AP Enterprise: Somali boy becomes face of war after bullet leaves a lifelong scar The bullet hit mother and son as they walked ...
Somali pirates on Thursday released a Panama-flagged ship seized earlier this month and alleged to be carrying weapons, an organisation monitoring maritime activity ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates seized a Greek cargo ship and a Yemeni fishing boat in the latest attacks demonstrating their ability to evade international naval forces, gunmen and officials said Wednesday. Patrols by a multinational naval force in the strategic shipping ...
Seven Somali pirates captured last month by European Union warships after an attack on a French fishing vessel were handed to Kenyan authorities on Monday for trial, police said. The men were brought to the Kenyan port city of Mombasa aboard a ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation in contravention of a U.N. arms embargo, maritime experts said Monday. Also Monday, the gunmen launched their longest ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates seized a Greek-owned vessel full of wheat in the Indian Ocean on Thursday and threatened to hand three Spanish captives to the families of two suspected gunmen being held in Spain. The Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier MV ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali courtship was different in Hassan Aden's day. When he was a teenager, you gave the girl's parents 11 camels and an AK-47 assault rifle as bride price and then waited respectfully. Now, the 55-year-old said, a mobile phone ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least 36 people have been killed and scores wounded in three days of fighting in towns across chaotic southern and central Somalia, a local human rights group said Sunday. Government troops fought a rebel group in a central ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates holding two Britons captive aboard a yacht off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation warned Britain not to try to rescue the couple. The pirates seized the vessel on Friday morning hundreds of miles out ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline al Shabaab insurgents executed two young men in public Sunday after telling a crowd in a rebel-held port that they had confessed to spying. The United States says the group, which wants to topple President Sheikh Sharif ...
Somalia's embattled government and Islamist rebels vowed on Friday to step up their war with the government promising a counter-offensive while the Shebab militia threatened to take fighting beyond Somalia's borders. Speaking a day after an insurgent attack against the presidency in ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline al Shabaab insurgents said they will strike the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from those countries that killed at least 30 people in Mogadishu. "We shall make their people cry," ...
