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Car bomb outside Mogadishu army base kills at least 15

A car bomb targeting senior officials leaving a military base in Mogadishu killed at least 15 people and destroyed a minibus carrying civilians, the...

Hijacked ship’s crew rescued from pirates near Somalia

Nineteen crew members have been freed from a ship captured by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Maritime officials received an alert on Saturday...

Somalia’s Puntland executes al Shabaab militants

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...

Roadside bomb kills 10 in Somalia

A roadside bomb killed 10 people in a minibus in southern Somalia on Thursday, a military officer and residents said, blaming Islamist militants who...

Somalia leader declares country a war zone

Somalia's new president has declared the country a war zone and replaced its military and intelligence chiefs while instructing the army to prepare a...

Seven killed in Car bomb at a cafe in Somalia

A car bomb rammed into a cafe in the Somali capital Mogadishu near compounds housing government ministries on Wednesday, killing seven people, officials and...

Hijacked vessel moved to new location off Somalia

Pirates who hijacked an Indian cargo dhow with 11 crew on board have moved the vessel to an undisclosed location off the Somali coast...

Al-Shabab Islamist militants kidnap aid workers

Four aid workers have been kidnapped by members of the Somali Islamist militant group, al-Shabab, reports say.

Somalia’s al Shabaab takes town after the exit of Ethiopian troops

Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist 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.

Indian commercial ship hijacked by Somali pirates

An Indian commercial ship has been hijacked by Pirates off the coast of Somalia. A former government anti-piracy official told Reuters on Monday that the vessel is heading towards the shore.

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Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers. The apartments have been constructed to...

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The ex-chief of staff of the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been jailed 20 years by a high court. Vital Kamerhe was...

Covid-19: Zimbabwe’s health minister arrested, charged for graft

Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million. Moyo is accused of illegally...

Ghana’s new law that jails citizens not wearing facemask 10 years

Ghanaians who fail to wear the face masks in compliance with a presidential directive risk going to jail for ten years. They also face a...
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