January 19th World \ Africa Somali pirates seized almost 80 percent fewer ships in the final three months last year as pre-emptive strikes by naval forces deterred attacks, a group tracking incidents worldwide said. Read more...

January 19th World \ Africa Somali pirates seized almost 80 percent fewer ships in the final three months last year as pre-emptive strikes by naval forces deterred attacks, a group tracking incidents worldwide said. Read more...

January 18th World \ Africa Five players to watch at the African Cup of Nations, which starts Saturday: Yaya Toure, Ivory CoastClub: Manchester City (England) Position: Midfielder Age: 28 Big, strong and quick and a dominant figure in midfield for both club and country, the younger of Ivory Coast’s two Toure brothers will likely be the foundation on which it builds its title challenge in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Read more...

January 17th World \ Africa Horn Petroleum Corp. has spudded the Shabeel-1  wildcat on the Dharoor block in Puntland, northern Somalia, toward a  planned total depth of 3,800 m, said Africa Oil Corp., Vancouver, BC,  which owns a 51% equity interest in Horn Petroleum. Read more...

January 16th World \ Africa Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has announced the government will cut fuel prices, after a week-long nationwide strike and protests against soaring costs. Mr. Jonathan said in a televised address Monday that given "hardships being suffered by the Nigerian people," fuel prices will drop to about 60 cents per liter. Read more...

January 15th World \ Africa A group of influential Somalis have joined forces to push for the release of the two kidnapped aid workers, from the Danish Refugee Council’s demining unit. Through concrete action and strong support the group will increase pressure on the kidnappers in order to ensure an unconditional and peaceful release. Read more...

January 15th World \ Africa The new police authority of the TFG, in the newly liberated regional capital of Baladweyne found a large number of  skeletons and old rotting human flesh inside the city’s police station, which was until recently in the hands of the Al-shabab extremists. Read more...

January 11th World \ Africa Turkish Red Crescent teaches Somali people how to make bread in a mobile bakery, head of the Turkish team said on Sunday. Read more...

December 21st World \ Africa The first Djiboutian contingent of 200 soldiers landed in Mogadishu Tuesday to join the African Union force battling Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab forces in Somalia, a government official said. Read more...

“Djibouti deployed its first contingent to Somalia today to help the country restore peace and stability,” Mohamed Abdirahman, a Somali security official, told reporters.

December 10th World \ Africa Several African leaders watching news of the death of Africa ’s longest serving leader are wondering who among them is next and how they will leave office. Three of the ten longest serving leaders have fallen this year – Ben Ali of Tunisia ruled for 23 years, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt ruled for 30 years and the longest, the Brother Leader of Libya ruled for 42 years – all gone in the last six months. Read more...

December 10th World \ Africa A warplane bombed the rebel-held southern Somali town of Baardheere on Saturday, hitting a feeding centre run by the Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS) that was empty at the time, local residents said. Read more...

December 9th World \ Africa Tens of thousands of Somalis living in Minnesota might be forced to find another way to send money to relatives in their homeland after a bank that handles the majority of the community's wire transfers said it was halting the service amid fears some funds could go to terrorists. Read more...

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Djibouti president, Mr. Ismail Omar Guelleh, has recently granted a long interview with the weekly Jeune Afrique. President Guelleh talks about succession, Somalia, Arab revolutions, the death of Qaddafi and his relations with France

December 4th World \ Africa Klaus von Bröckel remembers the moment in March 1987 that changed his life as vividly as if it had been only a few weeks ago. The marine biologist was sitting with a few colleagues on the terrace of the Café Historil in Djibouti, the capital of the small East African country of the same name. They were in high spirits. Read more...

December 4th World \ Africa No evidence of attacks reported on controversial channel Press TV as Somali charity says reports are impossible An Iranian TV station appears to have faked dozens of accounts of US drone strikes in Somalia which it says have killed hundreds of civilians. Read more...

November 24th World \ Africa Is the Kenyan government paying a price for deliberately not intervening earlier in solving the Somali crisis, which has been ongoing for two decades? This is the first thought that came to my mind when suspected al-Shabaab sympathisers recently hurled grenades at innocent civilians in Nairobi. One would expect Kenya to have intervened in the Somali crisis as early as the 90s because the two countries share a border and an ocean.

November 24th World \ Africa Libya's government says Mr Sanussi, a brother-in-law of Col Gaddafi, was arrested at his sister's home in the southern town of Sabha on Sunday. Saif al-Islam had been on the run since NTC forces took Tripoli in August, six months into the uprising. Read more...

November 21st World \ Africa Security forces and demonstrators clash in Cairo after former interior minister's trial is put off without explanation Clashes between protesters and security forces engulfed Cairo once again on Tuesday night, as the fiercest street battles since the fall of Hosni Mubarak left dozens injured. Read more...

November 21st World \ Africa Waxaa weli Dibadbax Xoogan uu ka soconaya Fagaaraha Taxriir ee Magaalada Qaahira ee wadanka Masar waxaana halkaasi iskugu soo baxay Kumaanaan Dad ah oo si weyn uga soo horjeeda Mmaamulka Meletriga ee Dalka gacanta ku haya Dhowrkii bilood ee la soo dhaafay. Read more...

November 17th World \ Africa The presidents of Kenya, Uganda and Somalia say the dual-fronted fight against Islamist al-Shabab militants presents a “historic opportunity” to restore stability in Somalia.Kenya sent hundreds of troops into Somalia last month to hunt down al-Shabab militants, whom it blames for a string of kidnappings in Kenya. Read more...