The United Kingdom has welcomed the peaceful handover of power in Somaliland today. Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo, a former rebel leader took office after winning last month’s Presidential elections he United ...

Somalia's al-Shabab rebels have claimed responsibility for Friday's suicide bombing death of Somalia's Interior Minister. An official says Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan was killed inside his Mogadishu ...

The Somali government detained six passengers and two small Cessna airplanes that landed today in Mogadishu Airport. According to Interior Minister Abdishakur Hassan Farah, the planes had requested ...

AMISOM Spokesman Major Barigye Ba-Huko told VOA Somali Service that four AMISOM soldiers were killed and eight others injured after a mortar shell landed in Villa Somalia Compound AMISOM Spokesman ...

The Somali militant group Al-Shabab has closed down BBC FM stations in the areas under their control. In a statement released to the media, Al-Shabab also ordered confiscation of equipments belonging ...

The United Nations Special Envoy to Somalia Augustine Mahiga urged the Somali leaders to resolve their differences The United Nations Special Envoy to Somalia Augustine Mahiga urged the Somali leaders ...

Young football fans are “flocking” into government-held territory in Mogadishu in order to watch the world cup tournament, witnesses told VOA Somali Service. A fan who fled Yaqshid district in north ...

Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist rebels has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's suicide car bomb attack at a base for African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu. The al-Qaida-linked militants say the ...

A summary of an exclusive interview with the Somali president, Ahmed Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, minutes after he delivered his remarks at the AU summit in Addis Ababa. The interview was conducted for the ...

The Somali insurgent group al-Shabab has issued a threat to the editor of VOA's Somali service and his counterpart at the BBC Speaking at a Mogadishu mosque last Friday, an al-Shabab official labeled ...