The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group says it killed the manager of a Dubai government-owned port operator in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

Somalia's al Shabab Islamic extremists launched an attack on African Union troops in the country's south, killing four Ugandan peacekeepers, said Ugandan army spokesman Brigadier Richard Karemire.

A couple from Somalia have been accused of keeping their four children at home and trying to brainwash them with videos of Muslim extremism, a UK High Court judge has said.

A car bomb has exploded near Somalia's parliament in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least four people along with the driver, and injuring several others.

At least 14 people were killed and 10 others wounded in a car bomb blast near a hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, officials have said.

The death toll from two explosions in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Friday has risen to 21.

At least 18 people have been killed and another 20 were hurt after twin explosions and gunfire rocked Somalia's capital Mogadishu, ambulance officials said.

The Irish public is being praised for saving the life of a starving five-year-old girl in war-ravaged Somalia.

The final death toll in October's massive truck bombing in Somalia's capital is 512 people, according to the committee tasked with looking into the country's worst-ever attack.

Troops regained control of the Nasa-Hablod hotel this morning, having killed three attackers and captured two alive

Latest: A suicide car bomb exploded outside a popular hotel in Somalia's capital on Saturday, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 16, and gunfire continued inside as security forces pursued the attackers, police said.

The death toll from Saturday's lorry bombing in Somalia's capital has risen to more than 300, as the country reeled from the deadliest single attack it has ever experienced.

Latest: The death toll from the most powerful bomb blast witnessed in Somalia's capital rose to 231 with more than 275 injured.

Ten civilians including three children have been killed in a raid by US-backed Somali forces on a farm in southern Somalia, a deputy governor said, as officials displayed victims' bloodied bodies in the capital.

The humanitarian tragedy in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen is not new, but unless the world works for longterm change at a local level we’re doomed to see the cycle of suffering to continue, says Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré.

At least five people have been killed and 13 others injured.

At least five people have been killed and 13 others injured in a car bomb blast near a police station in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.

At least 17 people were killed in a night-long siege of a popular Mogadishu restaurant by al-Shabab Islamic extremists which was ended on Thursday morning by security forces.

A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the gate of a popular restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu and gunmen were fighting their way inside, police said.

A US service member has been killed in Somalia during an operation against the extremist group al Shabab in the first US combat death in the country in more than two decades.

100-tonnes of humanitarian relief supplies from Irish Aid are to be distributed in Somalia by Concern Worldwide.

Three civilians have been killed in a mortar attack in Somalia's capital.

Pirates have seized a small boat and kidnapped its 11 Indian crew members off the coast of Somalia, an investigator said, the latest vessel targeted by the region's resurgent hijackers.

Somali pirates who seized an oil tanker have opened fire on naval troops from the semi-autonomous state of Puntland, sparking clashes between the two sides, an official said.

UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has made a surprise visit to Somalia for talks with the country's new president as a worsening drought threatens millions of people in the Horn of Africa nation.

Latest: Families of the Sri Lankan crew members held captive on an oil tanker are appealing to Somali pirates to release the men unharmed.

Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia in the first attack on a large commercial vessel there since 2012.

The United Nations humanitarian chief has warned the world is facing the largest humanitarian crisis since 1945 with more than 20 million people in four countries facing starvation and famine.

More than 100 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region of Somalia, the country's prime minister said.

A blast at a busy market in Somalia's capital has killed at least 15 people, police said.

United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres is calling on Somalia's new president to quickly form an inclusive cabinet.

Residents in Somalia say they have found three decapitated bodies just days after fighters linked to the so-called 'Islamic State' ('IS') abducted nine people.

At least 17 people have been killed and more than 30 others wounded when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the gates of a local government headquarters in Somalia and another bomber targeted a marketplace nearby.

At least 30 Ethiopian troops have been killed in an attack on a base for African Union peacekeepers in central Somalia, a Somali military official said.

Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, stormed a hotel in the capital Mogadishu last night, killing at least six people and taking a number of hostages, police said.

Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, have stormed a hotel in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least six people and taking a number of hostages, police said.

A photograph of a drowned migrant baby in the arms of a German rescuer was distributed yesterday by a humanitarian organisation. 

More than 400 migrants, mostly from Somalia, are reported to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea on a boat trip from Libya to Italy.

Gunmen have forced their way into a hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, a police official said.

The Serb pilot who landed a jetliner in Somalia with a gaping hole in its fuselage said on Sunday he never doubted that it was caused by a bomb and described the security surround the airplane at Mogadishu Airport as “zero”.

The head of the airline whose jetliner was damaged by an explosion shortly after take-off from Somalia says investigators have found what appears to be residue from explosives on the plane.