NAIROBI (Reuters) - A military offensive led by an expanded African peacekeeping force aims to drive Somali Islamist rebels out of their remaining strongholds by the end of 2014, the Somali prime ...

The number of pirate attacks at sea has fallen 40 percent since peaking in 2011, with most of the improvement attributed to stability in Somalia. There were 264 attacks worldwide last year, including ...

The Somali government has said that a total of 131 people have been killed in attacks by the Al-Shabaab militant group in 2014, representing a considerable drop in the death toll since 2006. "Most of ...