Somalia

EL ADOW, Kenya - A besuited UN official wearing well-buffed shoes crouches in the orange dust near a cluster of…

ROME, Italy - Desperate Somali mothers are abandoning their dying children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency…

DADAAB, Kenya - The dry heat beats down on the vast, arid landscape that stretches through northeastern Kenya. Torrid winds…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - An Al-Qaeda-linked militant group has said it will not allow banned aid organizations to return, meaning only…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali soldiers beat back desperate families with gun butts Thursday as they fought for food supplies in…

ROME, Italy - The United Nations has called an emergency meeting on 25 July to discuss mobilizing aid for drought-stricken…

NAIROBI, Kenya - The United Nations said Wednesday that famine has hit two parts of rebel-held Somalia, due to a…

Mogadishu - Clashes pitting Somali government forces and their African Union allies against Islamist rebels for control of Mogadishu's main…

Egyptian officials have been pressuring the United States to delay a referendum on South Sudanese independence, a newly-leaked US Embassy…

 Shanghai--Pirates hijacked a Chinese ship carrying 29 sailors in the Arabian Sea and told the ship's owner that they were…