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US drones in Somalia target major

Washington - Egypt Today

As airstrikes ramp up against terrorist groups around the globe, the US military says it conducted a drone strike Sunday in Somalia against Al Qaeda’s third largest affiliate, al-Shabab, Fox News reported. In late March, President Donald Trump allowed the Pentagon to begin offensive airstrikes in Somalia. The strike this weekend was the second under this new authority. One of...Read More

Al-Shabab militants attack Somali army

Mogadishu - Arab Today

Al-Shabab fighters attacked a remote Somali army base northwest of the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing several government soldiers, according to officials and militants. The militant group, which has launched several attacks there in the last few years, said it had seized control of the entire town of Goofgaduud. “We have captured Goofgaduud. We killed 16 soldiers in the fighting,”...Read More

Drought-hit Somalia moves closer

Mogadishu - Arab today

Life-threatening child malnutrition rates are rising to alarming levels in drought-hit Somalia, the international aid group Save the Children said Thursday. A new survey found "very critical" levels of severe malnutrition in two of six districts assessed in some of the worst affected parts of Somalia. "We are on the brink of a massive catastrophe in Somalia with the death...Read More

World has just months 'to stop starvation' in Yemen

Geneva - Arab today

The world has got just three to four months to save millions of people in Yemen and Somalia from starvation, as drought and war wreck crops and block aid across the region, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday. The agency said it needed $300 million to fund its work in those countries and other trouble...Read More

Car bomb explodes in Somalia capital

Mogadishu - Arab today

A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint less than a kilometre away from the presidential compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, police said. "A suicide car bomb rammed into a checkpoint near the national theatre. It is too early to know details and casualties," said Ahmed Hussein, a police officer. The theatre is about 300 metres away from...Read More

Pirates hijack Indian vessel off coast of Somalia

Bosasso (Somalia) - Arab today

Pirates have hijacked an Indian commercial vessel off the coast of Somalia, the second attack in weeks after years without such seizures, industry and security sources said on Monday. United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), which coordinates the management of merchant ships and yachts in the Gulf of Aden area, said it had received information that a dhow en route...Read More

Security forces free hostages held by pirates

Mogadishu – Arab Today

Somalia security forces on Wednesday freed eight sailors who had been taken ashore by pirates after they were chased off a hijacked Indian ship earlier this week, a coast guard official said. "The eight hostages were freed without fighting. The security forces overwhelmingly besieged them and the pirates tried to flee, but three of them were captured," Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed,...Read More

Somalia’s Puntland executes Al-Shabab

Bossaso , Somalia - Arab Today

Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region on Saturday executed five people it said were Islamist militants responsible for killing three senior government officials last year, a military court official said. Abdifatah Haji Aden, chairman of Puntland’s military court, said the five were behind the killings of a director at Puntland’s presidential palace, a military prosecutor and a deputy police commander in the...Read More

Suicide Bomb Hits Somalia Military Camp in Mogadishu

Mogadishu - Arab Today

A suicide bomber has blown himself up at a military training camp on the outskirts of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, on Monday, killing and injuring a number of people. An armed suicide bomber with an explosive jacket entered the camp and blew up himself after firing at the soldiers, sources said. Meanwhile, one person was killed when a car bomb exploded...Read More

Somalia's Puntland executes 5 Al-Shabaab militants

Mogadishu - Arab Today

Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland on Saturday executed five Al-Shabaab members by firing squad in Bosaso town. Chairperson of Puntland Army court, Abditifah Haji Aden told journalists the five were behind several murders involving senior officials which have been carried out in Bosaso. "The court conducted execution of five Al-Shabaab militant members here in Bosaso town this morning. All of...Read More

Landmine Kills 20 Civilians in Somalia

Mogadishu - Arab Today

At least 20 civilians were killed Thursday when the minibus in which they were travelling hit a landmine in southern Somalia, a security official said. The blast tore the minibus in two. Only the driver survived, security official said. The incident happened near the village of Golweyn, in the Lower Shebelle region. Earlier in the day, Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi...Read More

Al-Shabab takes town after Ethiopian troops leave

Mogadishu - Arab Today

Somalia’s Al-Shabab group has taken control of El-Bur, a town in the Horn of Africa’s semi-autonomous region of Galmudug, after Ethiopian forces left, a government official has said. Al-Shabab is seeking to drive the African Union-mandated peacekeeping force out of Somalia and topple the country’s central government. Ethiopian forces, who are part of the peacekeeping force alongside troops from Uganda,...Read More

Somalia's new president names 26-minister cabinet

Somalia - Arab today

Somalia's new president named a 26-strong cabinet on Tuesday, including a former foreign affairs chief as finance minister and a BBC journalist as the country's top diplomat. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed - better known by his nickname, Farmajo - was sworn in last month after unseating Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, whose administration faced public and Western criticism for corruption scandals....Read More

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