A spokesman says Ethiopian troops will complete their withdrawal from Somalia within days, and that sufficient precautions have been made to prevent a feared power vacuum when they are gone. Troop convoys have been seen pulling back to positions acr...
The U.S. Navy says more American warships have been sent to the east coast of Somalia, where a vessel carrying more than 30 tanks and other military equipment is being held by pirates. As VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bur...
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 20 March 2008 The U.N. Security Council is looking at options, proposed by the secretary general, for stabilizing Somalia. They include the possibility of sending a U.N. peacekeeping force to that country to take ov...
By Tendai Maphosa London 03 March 2008 A new Amnesty International report describes Somalia as one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist. The report says the threat to journalists in the war-torn country is now the worst it has...
By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 29 June 2007 In the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in Somalia, a swarm of locusts has stripped fruit trees and crops, causing an agricultural emergency in a country already suffering acute food shortages. Arjun Kohli report...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 28 June 2007 The foreign affairs secretary for Somalia's ousted Islamic Courts Union has confirmed to VOA that he has received an invitation from the country's western-backed transitional government to attend peace talks next mo...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 12 October 2006 Kenya's foreign affairs minister is expressing his frustration over recent events in Somalia and their effect on his country, saying Somali refugees are carrying guns into Kenya and adding to insecurity. Mea...