When Western navies raided three dhows in the Arabian Sea this year, some of the weapons they found matched arms taken from Houthi rebels in Yemen, a report...
Yemeni President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi Tuesday accused Shiite rebels and their allies of dashing hopes for peace after they unveiled a new government in...
A second poor rainy season in Somalia has pushed livestock herders in the drought-hit Puntland region to trek an average of 60 km to fetch drinking water, aid...
Somalia's prime minister said on Saturday he had secured a cease-fire between two warring regions in the Horn of Africa nation, two weeks after a peace deal...
EU ministers approved a common defense plan on Monday despite sharp differences over how far it should go, as Donald Trump's election win stoked fears about...
The European Union is becoming a "superpower" indispensable for world peace, the bloc's foreign affairs chief said Thursday as Europe pondered the...
The past five years were the hottest on record with mounting evidence that heat waves, floods and rising sea levels are stoked by man-made climate change, the...
Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab remains capable of launching large-scale attacks despite claims that the insurgency is weakening, a U.N. report warned...
United Nations sanctions monitors warned in an annual report released Friday that possible foreign support for a new military base and seaport in Eritrea and...
October marked a record monthly high in the number of migrants arriving in Italy in recent years, with over 27,000 people reaching its shores.
Islamist militant group Al-Shabab Sunday seized control of yet another town in central Somalia after it was abandoned by African Union peacekeepers, a...
Iran has sent two warships to the Gulf of Aden off Yemen's coast to protect commercial vessels, Iranian media said Thursday, at a time of heightened tension...
Japan will lease additional land next year to expand a military base in Djibouti, eastern Africa, as a counterweight to what it sees as growing Chinese...
With Chinese conductors at the helm, a fleet of shiny new trains will Wednesday begin plying a new route from the Ethiopian capital to Djibouti, in a major...
Ethiopia began three days of national mourning Monday for 52 people who were killed in a stampede at a religious festival after police clashed with...
The Somali government has accused U.S. forces of carrying out an airstrike earlier this week which killed 13 Somali soldiers
Somalia's government Thursday requested an explanation from the United States after Somali officials said a U.S. "friendly fire" airstrike killed at least 22...
An airstrike in northern Somalia left as many as 22 soldiers dead overnight, local officials said Wednesday, and one region said the United States had been...
A colleague says unidentified gunmen have shot dead a journalist in Somalia's capital.
Somalia has pushed back its upcoming presidential election by a month, sparking concern in the international community, which has called on all parties to...