Dozens of people are feared dead after two migrant boats overturned off the coast of Djibouti, according to the United Nations on Wednesday. The boats left Yemen with 310 people on board, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a post on social media platform X on Tuesday. So far, 45 people have…

Somalia has accused neighbouring Ethiopia of supplying weapons to its northeastern Puntland region, which this year unilaterally declared it would act as an independent state despite protests from the central government. There is a history of stormy relations between Ethiopia and Somalia—a fragile jigsaw of federal states, whose instability weakens the central government's ability to…

The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) has awarded 160 Nigerian police officers for their outstanding service and contribution to peace and security in Somalia. The officers from the 12th contingent of the Nigeria Formed Police Unit (NFPU-12), received African Union medals of honour at a ceremony presided over by ATMIS Police Commissioner, CP…

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 39 people were killed in recent inter-clan clashes in Somalia in the past two months. The OCHA said land disputes were blamed for the conflicts, which left 35 dead in the Mudug region in central Somalia, with four others dead in Luuq in southern…

Somalia's cabinet on Thursday endorsed legislation to allow a one-person-one-vote system for elections for the first time in more than half a century in the troubled Horn of Africa nation. The law aims to replace a complex clan-based indirect voting system that has been in place since 1969, when the dictator Siad Barre seized power.…

Somalia's intelligence agency said 16 suspects had been arrested over a deadly attack on a popular hotel in the capital Mogadishu 10 days ago.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Sunday that "Egypt will not allow anyone to threaten Somalia," after a controversial maritime deal between rival Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland.

Somalia will hold an emergency cabinet meeting on Tuesday, state media said, after the breakaway region of Somaliland struck a "historic" deal with Ethiopia allowing Addis Ababa access to a Red Sea port.

Somalia's president welcomed Friday's decision by the UN Security Council to fully lift an arms embargo on the Somalian government, while maintaining a ban on sales to the country's Islamists militants. The United Nations in 1992 imposed an embargo on all arms deliveries to Somalia, though in recent years the Security Council has eased restrictions…

The floodwaters in the southwestern Somali district of Dolow may have started to recede -- for now -- but distraught families who have lost their homes, their livelihoods in the muddy deluge are now at risk of potentially fatal disease.