Despite Somalia severing ties, Kenya says it won’t expel Somalis

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In the wake of Somalia's announcement this week that it is severing diplomatic ties with Kenya, the government says it will not expel Somali diplomats...

bihi , somalia

149 African migrants evacuated from Libya to Italy

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The U.N. refugee agency says it has evacuated 149 refugees and asylum-seekers from the strife-torn Libyan capital of Tripoli and brought them to safet...

italy , libya , refugees , UNHCR

US confirms airstrike kills deputy leader of IS militants in Somalia

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The U.S. military confirmed Monday that it carried out an airstrike that killed the deputy leader of Islamic State militants in Somalia. U.S. Afric...

IS , somalia , US

Somalia bans old Antonov planes from its airspace

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The Somali government is banning four types of Antonov airplanes from flying in Somali airspace, citing safety reasons. The Somali Civil Aviation A...

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Somalia military executes 6 militants without trial

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The Somali military has executed six al-Shabab militants without a trial, according to officials and rights activists. "The men have been in prison...

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In Somalia, businesses face ‘taxation’ by militants

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Somalia businessmen and analysts say the rival Islamist groups are targeting companies to an unprecedented degree with demands for so-called taxes. ...

Abdirahman Mohamed Turyare , African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM , AL-SHABAB , al-Shabab taxes , AMISOM Summit , Hiraal Institute , pro-IS groups , recent shootings of at least eight employees of Hormuud , Shabab's tactics of pay up-or-pay the consequences , Somalia's National Intelligence Agency , telecommunications official Abdullahi Ali Omar killed by IS militants

AMISOM warns of increased Al-Shabab ambushes

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Al-Shabab attacks against African Union peacekeepers and Somali government forces could worsen as troops try to reopen Somalia’s main supply roads, ...

AL-SHABAB , AMISOM , baidoa , Burundi Vice President Gaston Sindimwo , Jowhar , Lieutenant Colonel Wilson Rono , mogadishu , Mohamed Hussein al-Qadi , President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo , Shabelle region , Somali National Army , town of Bal’ad , town of Fafahdhun

Somali migrants speak of horror and abuse in Libya

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It was an emotional moment for the nearly dozen Somali migrants who were repatriated to Mogadishu from Libya on Saturday. Some fell to their knees,...

African Union Commissions , Ahmed Abdikarim Nur , Bani Walid , International Organization for Migration (IOM) , Kufra detention center , libya , Mahdi Mohamed Guled , Moussa Faki Mahamat , somali migrants , Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo , Somalia's Deputy Prime Minister , United Nations Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) , VOA's Somali service

First Somali elected to head the World Court

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Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf has become the first Somali to lead the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands. "I am humbled by this...

east africa , first Somali , International Court of Justice (ICJ) , Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf , kenya , Netherlands , Somali National University , somalia , the hague , town of Eyl , University of Florence , University of Geneva , US

32 children rescued from Al-Shabaab

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A U.S.-backed operation by Somali special forces has freed 32 children who were kidnapped by militant group Al-Shabab. Somali Information Minister ...

32 children rescued from Al-Shabaab , Al Shabaab , Al-Shabaab menace , Human Rights Watch , Insecurity in Somalia , Radicalization in Somalia , Somali Information Minister Abdirahman Omar Osman , The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) , US military operations in Somalia

Report: Al-Shabaab enlisting children as young as 8

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A new report says Somalia's Al-Shabaab militants are forcing rural communities to hand over children as young as 8 years old for indoctrination and mi...

Al Shabaab , Al-Shabaab recruitment , Bay region Governor Ali Wardhere Doyow , Human Rights Watch (HRW) , Human Rights Watch (HRW) report , Puntland Somalia , Radicalization by Al-Shabaab , Report: Al-Shabaab enlisting children as young as 8 , Somalia menace

Ethiopia Plans to Close 27 Refugee Camps

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The government of Ethiopia says it will close all 27 refugee camps in its territory over the next 10 years and integrate residents into local communit...

Executions Increase in Somalia

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In Somalia, a country long troubled by deadly violence, there's a disturbing new trend: an increase in summary executions. Somali military courts a...

Al Shabaab , somalia

US Expected to Return 4,000 Somali Migrants to Their Homeland

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Somalia's U.S. ambassador says his embassy has learned that U.S. immigration agents are planning to deport about 4,000 Somali nationals now living in ...

america , Donald Trump , Somalia immigrants

Somali Official Says Somaliland Deal with UAE Corrupt, Illegal

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Officials in Somalia and breakaway Somaliland took bribes in exchange for authorizing a United Arab Emirates military base in the port city of Berbera...

Corruption Likely to Mar Somali Presidential Vote

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Election observers in Somalia say corruption is running rampant ahead of Wednesday's presidential election, with candidates giving gifts and large sum...

U.S to investigate deadly strike in Somalia

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The U.S. military will investigate conflicting reports on Wednesday’s deadly U.S. airstrike in Somalia, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said. ...

somalia , U.S , U.S to investigate deadly strike in Somalia

Al Shabaab militants capture key Somali town

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Al Shabaab militants have captured a key Somali town near with the border with Kenya, according to witnesses. Residents in El Wak told VOA's Somali...

Al Shabaab , Al-Shabab militants capture key Somali town , El Wak , somalia

Al-Shabab Says Executed More of Its Own in Somalia

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Al-Shabab militants in Somalia say they have executed two of their members, both of them recruited from Kenya, for disloyalty and anti-Islamic activit...

AL-SHABAB , somalia

3 Somali-Americans guilty of conspiring to help IS

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A jury in Minnesota has found three Somali-Americans guilty on all charges of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State militant gro...

IS , Islamic state , terror , world