New York, US (PANA) - The UN has expressed outrage at Wednesday's deadly attack on its compound in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, reiterating that the attack will not deter the organisation from helping the country as it proceeds on the path to stability and development. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Somalia, Mr. Nicholas Kay, on Sunday called for an immediate end to the fighting in the southern port city of Kismayo, where clashes have reportedly led to civilian deaths. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council on Thursday urged the international community to support the efforts of the Somali government to tackle outstanding issues vital for the county’s long-term stability. Full text...

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has agreed to a request from Kenya to champion its quest for an expansion of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) at this week's African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Jan Eliasson, on Thursday stressed the need for widespread support from the international community for the new Somali government to help it succeed in its reform efforts. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The US State Department on Thursday said that US assistance to Somalia was aimed at helping to ensure a stable government and to prevent terrorists from establishing a safe haven in the country.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to establish the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia, to be known as UNSOM and based in the country’s capital, Mogadishu, from 3 June for an initial period of 12 months. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Representatives of over 85 countries, international organisations, and the private sector, under the aegis of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, will meet at the UN headquarters in New York Wednesday (1May) Full text...

Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Somali police are increasingly playing a more prominent role in keeping their country back on its feet after 22 years of conflict. But peace in Somalia is still a long shot. Full text...

Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Somali President Sheikh Hassan Mohamud, said Tuesday his government’s efforts to pardon some 900 Somali youth engaged in piracy would not be extended to the piracy kingpins. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Sunday attacks on Mogadishu, the Somali capital, are regrettable signs of a prevailing climate of insecurity and violence, a statement said on Tuesday.Full text...

Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - The war inside Somalia, which has raged for more than 22 years, has taken its toll on the health of the population, forced to live without any semblance of a national health infrastructure for a better part of over two decades. Full text...

Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - At least 22 people, including nine Al Shabaab attackers who raided a courthouse in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, were killed while over 50 others were injured in the attack, government officials said Sunday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has resumed relations with Somalia after a 22-year interval following the prolonged civil war in the Horn of Africa country. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - US President Barack Obama, has said Somalia will receive military assistance from the US in order to bolster security and stability in the Horn of African nation. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Mrs. Zainab Bangura, has praised the Somali government's efforts to enhance the protection of women against sexual violence. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The United Kingdom has announced plans to host a trade and investment conference for Somalia in London during a planned security meeting to be held there in May, the UK Minister for Africa, Mark Simmonds, said Thursday. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) is to grant an additional aid of 33 million Euros to the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM) to play its key peacekeeping role in Somalia, a statement issued in Brussels said on Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UN Special Envoy to Somalia, Augustine Mahiga, said Monday’s explosion near the Somali Presidential Palace, which killed at least seven people, was shocking and saddening. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council Wednesday evening in New York partially lifted the decades-old arms embargo on Somalia for one year to help the country in its fight against the armed al-Shabab group. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Amnesty International on Tuesday said it is premature for the UN Security Council to consider lifting the arms embargo on Somalia, warning that such a move could see armed groups like Al-Shabab laying their hands on even more weapons, while removing existing mechanisms of transparency and accountability. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has described as a major setback for freedom of the media in Somalia Sunday's upholding, by the appeal's court, of the conviction of a journalist who interviewed a woman alleging rape by government forces. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) said Friday claims by the Somali militant group that it had executed one of the six hostages in its custody was a “blatant disregard for human life and dignity”. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has expressed deep concern over a Mogadishu court’s decision to convict and sentence to one year in prison a 27-year-old alleged rape victim and the journalist who interviewed her. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The EU Commission has indicated that security issues and humanitarian aid to Somalia will dominate talks involving the president of the Commission, Manuel Durao Barroso, the EU parliament's Speaker, Martin Schulz, and president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somali, due here Wednesday. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Twelve men, captured off the coast of Somalia on 5 Jan. over alleged piracy, were transferred Friday night by EU Naval Force warship FS Surcouf to the Mauritian authorities for prosecution, PANA reported from here Saturday. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has extended until March 2015 the training mission of the armed forces of Somalia, EUTM/Somalia, the European Commission said in a statement received by PANA here Friday. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The trial opens in Port-Louis on Friday of 12 Somali pirates captured by US forces on 5 January, official sources told PANA on Wednesday In Port-Louis.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somali militant group, Al Shabaab, said Monday a French operations commander, who was amongst a group of 50 French troops on a hostage rescue mission in Bulo Marer, had died in captivity. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - France has donated 1 million Euros to help thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Somalia, through a quick impact project. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan and his Somali counterpart Hussein Sheikh Mahmoud have discussed how to strengthen the relations between the two countries and contribute to efforts to rebuild Somalia. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Belgian military frigate "Marie-Louise", which is part of the European Union Naval Force Somalia, tagged ''Operation Atalanta", has intercepted a vessel with five Somali pirates on board in the Indian Ocean, the Belgian Ministry of Defence said. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Representatives of about 80 countries, international organisations, and the private sector were due to gather at the UN headquarters in New York Tuesday for a plenary meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Gunmen in Somalia have assassinated the newly-installed Governor of Somalia's Hiran province in south central Somalia, a day after his installation, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somali authorities must immediately release Ibrahim Mohamed Adan, a correspondent for the Somali service of the BBC, who has been held for nearly a week in Mogadishu without charge, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Nine suspected Somali pirates have been arrested 420 nautical miles east of the Mogadishu coastline, in a joint anti-piracy operation, a naval force said Wednesday.  Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki hailed the installation of Somalia's new cabinet Friday and announced plans to revive a government-to-government committee on bilateral cooperation. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has welcomed the swearing in of the newly-appointed Somali cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon scored a major victory with Tuesday's approval by parliament of his new 10-member cabinet, which includes Deputy Prime Minister Fozia Yusuf Adan. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - US Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman Sunday visited Somalia, where she held talks with the new leader, Hassan Sheikh Mahamud, on the possibility of allowing the sale of charcoal stockpiles in Kismayu, the US State Department said Monday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud must move swiftly to form a governing administration in the port city of Kismayu, whose wealth was used for several decades to fund the activities of rebel groups, a UN Diplomat said Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somalia's Al Shabaab militia's top woman leader, Marianna Issa Mohammed, has been arrested alongside 73 other militants after they were identified by residents of the port city of Kismayu, a military spokesman said on Tuesday.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somalia's parliament voted unanimously Wednesday to endorse the newly-appointed Prime Minister, Abdi Farah Shirdon, in a move praised by international diplomats as a further step in Somalia's road to democracy.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan troops Sunday marked the first anniversary of their incursion into Somalia to flush out suspected Islamists believed to be behind kidnappings and incursions into military installations in the country (Kenya). Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan forces will celebrate war heroes and honour those killed on the front line since 14 October, 2011, the first anniversary of the launch of ‘Operation Linda Nchi’, meant to clear Al Shabaab militants.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has revived its push for the lifting of the UN arms embargo on Somalia, to facilitate the proper arming of its forces and called on the world body to authorize the deployment of additional military capacity. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Seven suspected Somali pirates have been arrested and their small boat, suspected to have been at sea to target ship transiting the busy coastline, destroyed, leading to fresh calls from an anti-piracy taskforce patroling the seacoast for more vigilance. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A new survey of people across 40 regions in Somalia by international aid agency, Oxfam, has found that water and food shortages are at critical levels and likely to deteriorate in parts of the country over the coming months, risking a prolonged humanitarian crisis well into next year. Full text...

Dobley,Somalia (PANA) - Troops from the Somali National Army and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have advanced to within 5 kilometres of the port city of Kismayo, a day after they pushed Al Qaeda-affiliated militants from the southern Somali town of Canjeel, the force said Sunday. Full text...