1 day ago
Among other things, the FBI has partnered with a youth group to form the Somali American Youth Action Committee with the goal of educating Somalis about the FBI and vice versa.
6 days ago
Defense attorney Peter Wold told the judge about 200 Somali community members had written letters to the court on his behalf, calling him respectful, kind and helpful.
7 days ago
German police have arrested an asylum-seeker alleged to have acted as an accountant for Somali pirates who seized an oil tanker in 2010.
16 days ago
A Somali police official says five people were killed after a suicide bomber attempted to ram a car laden with explosives into a military convoy.
18 days ago
A U.S. diplomat says the fight against Somali pirates has been so successful that there hasn't been a hijacking off the Somali coast, in the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean in nearly a year.
87 days ago
A federal jury in San Diego has convicted four Somali immigrants - including an imam from a local mosque - of conspiring to funnel money to a terrorist group in their home country.
87 days ago
Somali officials and Turkish Airlines say that Somalis are using fake passports to board the Mogadishu-to-Istanbul flight as a way to flee to Europe.
98 days ago
Human Rights Watch has asked Somali authorities to immediately charge or release Daud.
104 days ago
Somali government assailed after woman who accused security forces of rape is sentenced to prison
110 days ago
The rights group said in statement Wednesday that Somali government should drop the politically motivated charges.
112 days ago
A federal judge will hear claims for damages against a former Somali military colonel who left the U.S. while facing civil allegations he tortured a human rights advocate.
114 days ago
Somalia held elections last year following the success of Somali and African forces in ousting Islamist extremists from the capital Mogadishu.
117 days ago
Rights groups are calling for the Somali government to release a journalist arrested by police for interviewing a woman who said she was raped by government security forces.
118 days ago
The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from Somali men who were the first people convicted on federal piracy charges in nearly 200 years.
118 days ago
Ten rights groups Tuesday said in a statement that since the December 18 announcement criminal gangs have aggravated xenophobic attitudes toward genuine Somali refugees and asylum seekers seeking...
123 days ago
The National Union of Somali Journalists said in November that journalists in almost every region of the country commonly face harassment, blackmail and arbitrary police detention.
123 days ago
Calling it a milestone in the country's fight against Islamist extremists, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made the announcement Thursday alongside Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
124 days ago
Dahir Amin Jesow, a member of the Somali parliament who visited Leggo village, the scene of the attack, said Wednesday all five children were less than 10 years old.
124 days ago
Johnnie Carson, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa, says recognition will take place Thursday when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Washington.
125 days ago
"The Somali police are detaining a journalist and harassing a woman who says she was raped, while letting those accused of rape run free," said Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
128 days ago
A Somali official says three Syrian hostages held by Somali pirates have been released after more than two years in captivity.
151 days ago
UNHCR said the incident late Tuesday represented the biggest loss of life in the Gulf of Aden since February 2011, when 57 Somali refugees and migrants drowned while attempting to reach Yemen.
154 days ago
NATO officials say no ships have been hijacked off the Somali coast in the second half of this year, reflecting a sharp decrease in piracy along one of the world's busiest shipping routes.
159 days ago
The task force's final recommendations noted that more than $300 million has been paid to Somali pirates in ransom since 2008.
