Dozens of Muslim families in Mpeketoni, a coastal Kenyan town where more than 60 were killed in terror attacks, have fled following threats and assaults from the Christian majority.
In addition to the naval face-off over a global oil outlet, the Persian Gulf has seen escalating militarization by international forces in the guise of narcotics enforcement.
Two weeks after a devastating cyclone struck Somalia’s autonomous enclave of Puntland, nomadic pastoralists are especially at risk, with much of their livestock wiped out.
US forces launched a night raid on a rebel-held town in Somalia’s southern Lower Shabelle region from the sea—apparently an effort to kill the leader of the Shabaab.
Thousands of displaced people who have taken refuge in Somalia’s capital are being forcibly evicted from makeshift camps by government forces, Amnesty International protests.
Some 160 Somali religious scholars came together in Mogadishu to issue a fatwa denouncing al-Shabab, saying the rebel group has no place in Islam.
At least 10 Shabaab rebel fighters were killed in heavy clashes with Kenyan security forces after the Somali rebels crossed the border and attacked a military patrol.
A US judge awarded $5 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages to a victim of torture at the hands of a Somali military colonel 25 years ago.
Al-Shabaab militants launched an assault on Somalia’s Supreme Court, resulting in at least 35 deaths—one of the worst attacks in years for the country’s capital of Mogadishu.
Twelve Shabab militants charged with the murder of a prominent Islamic scholar were sentenced to death by a court in Somalia’s autonomous enclave of Puntland.
A Somali court sentenced a woman who accused Somali security forces of rape to a year in prison for insulting a government body and making false claims.
The International Maritime Bureau hailed progress against Somali pirates, but urged the world’s navies to keep up the pressure—and warned of growing piracy off West Africa.
