The all-Indian crew of a chemical oil tanker that was hijacked by Somali pirates in August last year has been released, alongwith the ship, Indian authorities said.

The vessel, MT Fairchem Bogey, is

In late October, two 18-year-old men from the Welsh city of Cardiff were arrested on Kenya's border with war-torn Somalia.

The father of one of them told the BBC he believed his son had been 'brainw

A hospital for women and children built by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Somali capital Mogadishu will be completed soon, officials said.

The al-Hanan Hospital for Motherhood and Childhood is bei

Kenyan tanks, artillery and hundreds of fighters are moving through militant territory in Somalia, residents said on Monday.

Fighter jets and helicopters have been flying overhead since Kenyan forces

Islamist extremist group Al-Qaeda has donated food, money and clothes to Somalia in an apparent publicity push that shows its close ties with the Shebab rebels, a monitoring service said on Friday.

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Islamist extremist group Al-Qaeda has donated food, money and clothes to Somalia in an apparent publicity push that shows its close ties with the Shebab rebels, a monitoring service said on Friday.

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Italy's defence ministry said on Tuesday that British and US commandos had freed an Italian vessel with a crew of 23, which had been hijacked by eleven pirates off Somalia.

The ship's crew also inclu

A car bomb ripped through a government compound in Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing around 50 people in one of Somalia's deadliest ever suicide attacks, officials and witnesses said.

The attack was clai

In what could be termed a bizarre chain of events, a teacher in a London college failed to return when classes reopened after summer recess. His colleagues were astonished when they found he had a new

Famine spread to a sixth southern Somali region and will likely extend further in the coming four months with 750,000 people at risk of death, the United Nations said on Monday.

"Tens of thousands of