January 08, 2023   FILE – Armed al-Shabab fighters ride on pickup trucks as they prepare to travel into the city, just outside the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, Dec. 8, 2008. PHOTO: AP   By Omar Faruk | The Associated Press   MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia’s government claimed Saturday that the al-Shabab extremist group has for the first time asked ...

  January 07, 2023   FILE – Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud   By Mohamed Dhaysane | VOA News   MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called on young al-Shabab fighters he says are “brainwashed” to surrender to the government amid ongoing military offensives against the group. Speaking at a mosque in the country’s capital Friday, Mohamud, ...

  January 07, 2023   A British Immigration Enforcement officer (L) and an Interforce security officer (2L), escort migrants, picked up at sea by a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat as they attempted to cross the English Channel, on the shore at Dungeness, England, December 9, 2022. BEN STANSALL/AFP/GETTY   By The Associated Press   CAIRO – An Eritrean ...

  January 07, 2023   At least 29 people killed in Culiacán as drug cartel gunmen fight bloody battle to stop transport of El Chapo’s son after arrest A cargo vehicle in flames after clashes between federal forces and armed groups in the city of Culiacán. Photograph: Juan Carlos Cruz/EPA   By Tom Phillips and Analy Nuño in Guadalajara | ...

  January 06, 2023   FILE – Al Shabaab soldiers sit outside a building during patrol along the streets of Dayniile district in Southern Mogadishu, March 5, 2012. (REUTERS/Feisal Omar)   By AFP   WASHINGTON – The United States on Thursday offered a $10 million reward to find a leader of Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militants over a 2020 attack on an ...

  January 06, 2023   Pakistani policemen cordon the area near the military checkpost following an attack by militants in the Sari Norang area of Lakki Marwat district, around 240 kilometers (149 miles) south of Peshawar on February 2, 2013. (AFP/File)   By The Associated Press   PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Militants riding on a motorcycle shot and killed two policemen ...

  January 06, 2023   Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi (Center) | Photo: Via Som Tribune   By Som Tribune   His Excellency the President of the Republic of Somaliland, Musa Bihi Abdi, issues stiff warnin to non-Somalilanders raucously beating war drums against the Republic of Somaliland exploiting Las Anod demonstrations. President Bihi, first, sent state condolences to the families ...

Three foreign oil juniors are set to begin exploration in Somaliland by next year, as the rush on East African hydrocarbon largesse extends to the riskiest venues of the Horn. There’s one small problem, though: Somaliland has not been recognized since it declared independence from Somalia in 1991. That, however, is a minor detail as far as Turkey’s Genel Energy, ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somalia rejected on Wednesday what it called an “illegal claim” by Genel Energy (GENL.L) to oil exploration and exploitation rights in the country’s northern breakaway region of Somaliland, the country’s oil ministry said. Somaliland claimed independence from Somalia in 1991, and has been largely peaceful while the rest of the country has grappled with three decades of ...

Soldiers with the New Jersey Army National Guard set up an 81 mm mortar in support of a patrol at Baledogle Military Airfield, Somalia, June 24, 2019. The base was attacked by al-Shabab militants Sept. 30, 2019, with three vehicle-borne explosives and an assault by the militants. All militants were killed and no American and Somali soldiers were seriously injured, ...