[Shabelle] The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has been following, with deep concern, the worsening situation in the Federal Republic of Somalia due to severe drought for the fourth year in a row.

[Shabelle] The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday that more than 37 million people in the Greater Horn of Africa are facing acute hunger, as the region experiences one of the worst famines of the last 70 years.

[VOA] Somalia's prime minister has appointed the former deputy leader of the al-Shabab militant group, Mukhtar Robow, to the cabinet as minister for endowment and religious affairs.

[DW] Somalia has appointed a former spokesman and deputy leader of the al-Shabab Islamist group as religious affairs minister, Prime Minister Hamya Abdi Barre said on Tuesday.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A delegation led by Major General Tesfaye Ayalew, head of deployment unit of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and coordinator of the temporary security command post in the Somali regional state is in Beledwe...

[Shabelle] A Dutch woman was sentenced to three years in prison Monday for donating several hundred dollars to a group that supported the militant group al-Shabab in Somalia.

[Shabelle] An explosion reportedly occurred at Tarabunka Junction in Mogadishu on Tuesday morning, police and witnesses said.

[Shabelle] Somali police forces have arrested dozens of people in the Waberi district of the Banadir region during a security operation.

[Shabelle] The President of Hir-Shabelle Ali Abdullahi Hussein (Gudlawe) has appointed his Council of Ministers after almost two years.

[VOA] Mogadishu -- Somali-based militant group al-Shabab has executed seven men in Somalia's southwestern region of Bay.

[VOA] Mogadishu -- Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called on the Somali public to join the government's effort to help millions of people in the country affected by the drought. The U.N. says 7.7 million Somalis have been affected by the d...

[VOA] At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 others injured Friday when al-Shabab extremists attacked a town that sits on the Somali side of the border with Ethiopia, according to witnesses and officials.

[VOA] Mogadishu -- A local Somali official has welcomed a plan by Ethiopia's Somali state to create a buffer zone along the border inside Somalia to fight militant group al-Shabab. The plan was announced Thursday, a week after hundreds of Somali mili...

[Shabelle] The President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, for the first time spoke about security in Mogadishu after a surge in robberies and targeted killings.

[Shabelle] Ethiopian forces reportedly killed three key Al-Shabab leaders in the latest operation in the South Eastern Part of the country bordering Somalia region.

[GroundUp] Staff shortages at Home Affairs leave asylum seekers in the lurch

[Shabelle] Somali PM Hamza Abdi Barre issued a statement on Friday's suicide attack in Baidoa City which claimed the lives of at least 11 people, including a regional minister.

[Shabelle] The World Bank has approved a 100-million-U.S.-dollar grant to help Somalia's reform efforts and strengthen fiscal transparency and boost revenue.

[Shabelle] A Fierce fighting has been reported in Ato town along Somalia's border with Ethiopia on Friday, the second battle between the two sides in two weeks.

[Shabelle] The Minister of Justice of the South West Administration, Hassan Ibrahim Lugbur, a member of his family, and other civilians were killed in a suicide bombing that took place today in Baidoa city.

[Shabelle] A powerful explosion was reported in Baidoa city on Friday, the second of its kind in Southwest State within two days, police said.

[Shabelle] The Ethiopian government on Wednesday disclosed that more than 209 al-Shabab fighters have been killed after a failed incursion from neighboring Somalia by the militant group.

[Shabelle] Kismayo -- Units of the Somali military along with Jubaland regional troops carried out an operation against Al-Shabaab in the Lower Juba region as part of an ongoing offensive.

[VOA] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Somali officials say two explosions Wednesday in the Lower Shabelle region have killed at least 18 people, including the mayor of the region's capital. Islamist militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the deadl...

[ISS] Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is expected to regard the continental body more favourably than his predecessors did.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The High Court has nullified the candidature of Mohamed Gedi, an aspirant for the Fafi parliamentary seat for holding citizenship in three countries.

[Shabelle] MARKA [SMN] - An explosion in southern Somalia on Wednesday morning has left at least 11 people dead, including a district official, a witness said.

[Shabelle] MARKA [SMN] - Reports from Marka district in the Lower Shabelle capital say that there has been an attack from a suicide bombing on Wednesday morning.

[VOA] Al-Shabab militants who crossed into eastern Ethiopia last week are still active inside the country despite claims by local officials that the force has been "destroyed," say officials and security experts.

[Shabelle] Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud discussed in a meeting in Cairo on Monday a host of bilateral and regional issues, at the top of which are the latest developments regarding the Grand Eth...