The Islamic courts union has hailed Ethiopian prime minister's remarks on the withdrawal of his troops from Somalia even if the Somali government doesn't become stable.

The Eritrean president, Isayas Afewerki, has said the current economic, political and security crises being witnessed in the world are the consequences of the "vulgar adventurism" of the US Administration.

President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has said that the differences between him and Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein Adde have been solved.

After almost two decades of civil war and anarchy, Somalia is now suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, with 3.2 million people, almost half the population, in need of assistance. To make matters worse because of security problems, killing and kidnappings of relief workers, access to those in need has become almost impossible. IRIN talked to Mark Bowden, the UN Resident and ...

A landmine blast has partially destroyed a convoy vehicle of Somali troops in the latest attack by Islamist rebels on government authorities in the anarchic capital later on Thursday, eyewitnesses said.

Several Somali MPs have slammed Ethiopian government over unswerving interventions against Somali politics.

The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed the news that the head of its office in Somalia has been released today unharmed after two months in captivity in the war-torn Horn of Africa country.

The prime minister of the TFG Nor Adde has announced that him and the president have agreed to establish new administration for Mogadishu.

Speaking ahead of the legislative body members in Baidoa town the seat of the Somali parliament the pressident of the transitional government Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has announced that the parliament is responsible the weakness of the government.

Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf and his prime minister signed a deal in Addis Ababa on Tuesday to work together after a weeks-long rift that threatened to ruin their interim government.

About nine soldiers loyal to the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia based in Former Pasta Factory in Mogadishu joined the opposition armed groups on wednesday.

Six money transfer companies have restarted their normal work today after the government ordered them to close down their branches in Hamarweyne district in Mogadishu.

Somali Islamists attacked the residence of the deputy commander of Dhankerley district in Mogadishu on Wednesday night, sparking fierce exchanges with government forces were guarding at the house, witnesses said.

Somali kidnappers freed the United Nations high commissioner for refugees' agency representative in Mogadishu who had been held hostage in the chaotic Horn of Africa country since July, officials said on Tuesday.

Conditions for thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) camping on the outskirts of the Somali capital Mogadishu are getting worse, with malnutrition cases increasing as more arrive daily, sources told IRIN.

Somalia is moving more rapidly than expected into a serious humanitarian crisis, with an estimated 3.2 million people both in urban and rural areas facing extreme poverty, according to humanitarian officials.

Conditions for thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) camping on the outskirts of the Somali capital Mogadishu are getting worse, with malnutrition cases increasing as more arrive daily, sources told IRIN.

Somali president Abdullahi Yusuf, prime minister Nor Adde and the speaker of the parliament Sheikh Aden Mohamed Nor Madobe have Wednesday touched down at the airport of Baidoa town the temporary seat of Somali parliament from Addis Ababa where they have been holding squaring off talks officials said.

After years of militia violence, roadblocks and assassinations, the southern Somali port city of Kismayo is reportedly calm under the rule of a coalition of local clans and Islamist guerrillas.

Somalia's transitional government troops have killed a young shoes cleaner boy in Zobe area south of Mogadishu as they were conducting search operations in the similar area on Wednesday, eyewitnesses said.

Witnesses in Somalia say Islamic insurgents attacked Somali forces in Mogadishu wounding at least five civilians.

Reports from Baidoa town the provincial capital of Bay region say that the son of one of Somali MPs whose name Mohamed Hussein Rage has been killed in a bomb attack on the MP's house in the town on Tuesday night residents, officials said.

IT was joy and laughter as Nino Omar, a Somali woman, was reunited with a UPDF soldier, Joshua Asiza, whom she says fathered her four-month-old son.

FRANTZ Fanon's "The wretched of the earth" describes the term "dehumanisation" quite appropriately. In the life of the poorest of the poor, a sense of hopelessness and desperation reigns to the extent that they behave and act irrationally.

The government of Puntland, in Somalia's northeast, has instituted a watering project intended to service nomadic families across the region.