Gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Wednesday, killing four guards, a senior official said.
In a nation awash with weapons, it was not immediately clear who staged the raid in the port city of (...)
At least two people were killed when Somali militants al Shabaab attacked the house of a senior police official in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, police said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
The militants have carried out several attacks in (...)
AlQa'dah 2, 1435, Aug 28, 2014, SPA -- At least nine people were killed in fighting on Thursday between rival areas in Somalia's usually calm Somaliland region, Reuters cited residents as saying.
Somaliland forces launched an offensive on a town (...)
Somali pirates have freed a German-owned cargo ship, seized in April, after they received a ransom, a pirate and maritime source said on Friday.
The Antigua and Barbuda-flagged Susan K, and with its crew of 10 Ukrainians and Filipinos, was released (...)
This may be one of the most dangerous towns in Somalia, a place where you can get kidnapped faster than you can wipe the sweat off your brow. But it is also one of the most prosperous.
Money changers walk around with thick wads of hundred-dollar (...)
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,
a local government official said. One soldier was killed.
Ali Abdi Aware, state minister for (...)
An unidentified warship
off pirate-ridden Somali waters captured 14 pirates and
destroyed their boat, a minister of the northern Puntland region
said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
Abdulqadir Muse Yusuf, fisheries minister for (...)
Somali pirates are
taking a hijacked Malaysian tanker to their coastal base, where
gunmen are already holding six vessels for ransom, REUTERS quoted a local
official as saying on Sunday.
The Bunga Melati 5 was carrying 30,000 tonnes (...)