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Somalia's government warned of a wave of retaliatory attacks by the country's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels.

• 06 сентября 2014, 15:01

Somalia's journalist union urged the government to ensure a fair trial of three colleagues arrested last week.

• 18 августа 2014, 14:39

Three women were arrested, in the United States and Netherlands, for allegedly giving financial help to Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab, authorities said.

• 24 июля 2014, 11:50

Islamist Shebab rebels carried out a major bomb and armed attack on Somalia's presidential palace late Tuesday, penetrating the heavily fortified complex in the capital Mogadishu before blowing themselves up.

• 09 июля 2014, 12:19

At least 10 people were killed in a new overnight attack near Kenya's coast, police said Tuesday, just 24 hours after Somalia's Shebab rebels massacred close to 50 people in the same area.

• 18 июня 2014, 08:18

Kazakhstan has been ranked 66th in the Visa Restriction Index 2014 with 61 visa-free travel destinations.

• 10 июня 2014, 14:31

Sixty migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia along with two Yemeni crew members drowned on May 31 in the worst such tragedy off the coast of Yemen this year, the UN said.

• 08 июня 2014, 22:10

At least three people were killed and several others wounded Saturday in twin attacks in Kenya's restive coastal city of Mombasa, officials said.

• 04 мая 2014, 13:54

A Briton and a Frenchman working for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime were shot dead Monday as they disembarked from a plane in central Somalia, officials and witnesses said.

• 08 апреля 2014, 13:44

US officials offered a $3 million reward Friday for help in capturing three notorious Somali terror suspects, including one linked to Al-Qaeda extremists involved in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa.

• 15 марта 2014, 17:30

An appeals court in the southern port of Aden upheld a 10-year jail term Sunday for 11 Somali pirates convicted of trying to hijack a ship in Yemeni waters.

• 10 марта 2014, 09:23

Malko Jama, a recently widowed Somali mother of eight, still remembers undergoing genital mutilation three decades ago as vividly as if it were yesterday.

• 20 февраля 2014, 11:16

The US military launched a missile strike in Somalia on Sunday targeting a suspected Shebab militant leader.

• 27 января 2014, 14:36

Heart disease and stroke have replaced infectious disease as the top causes of early death in the Arab world, tracking the West in a trend towards lifestyle disorders.

• 21 января 2014, 10:42

The four attackers responsible for killing at least 67 people at a Kenyan shopping mall may have escaped due to lax security.

• 11 декабря 2013, 12:32

France will authorise the deployment of armed guards on ships as part of anti-piracy measures, a move long sought by shipping companies, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in an interview published Tuesday.

• 04 декабря 2013, 10:00

African ministers and experts meet next week in Botswana to chart ways to stamp out a spike in elephant killings fuelled by a growing demand for ivory in Asia.

• 30 ноября 2013, 11:29

The British government defended its terror prevention measures on Monday after a Somali-born suspect escaped surveillance by putting on a burqa during a visit to a mosque.

• 05 ноября 2013, 15:14

Horn of Africa pirates have raked in up to $413 million in ransom since 2005, with most of it used to finance "global scale" criminal operations.

• 04 ноября 2013, 11:08

The US military was holding and secretly interrogating an alleged Al-Qaeda operative Monday, after weekend raids on Libya and Somalia which also targeted an elusive Islamist Shebab commander.

• 08 октября 2013, 16:32