Somalia’s deadly chaos is spreading across the border into Kenya, where dry land is no longer a refuge from the hostage takers who infest the failed state to the north, explains Margot Kiser.

INTERNATIONAL governments have collectively failed to act to prevent the famine declared yesterday in two regions of Somalia, according to the head of Oxfam Ireland.

SOMALIA’S president said his security forces will defeat al-Qaida and its affiliate militants in the war-ravaged country, after they killed Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Africa’s most wanted al-Qaida operative.

A Somalian man is facing two charges of attempted murder after he was shot by police while attempting to enter the home of a cartoonist who outraged many Muslims with his depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, Danish security sources said.