Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Turkish ambassador in Libya, Ali Kemaleddine, on Tuesday held talks with the Libyan minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Achour Ben Khiyal, and invited him to attend a conference on Somalia due in Istanbul, Turkey, on 1 June. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Troops of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in pursuit of the Al Qaeda-affiliated Al Shabaab terror group on Friday crossed the Shabelle River and secured all the major roads leading into and out of Afgooye town. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somali gunmen have killed yet another journalist in Mogadishu, attracting the condemnation of the UN Special envoy, Augustine Mahiga, who called for an end to the killings. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden, has stressed the need to minimize the impact of conflict on civilians, as the military forces make their way into Somalia’s Afgooye corridor. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – A group of Somali politicians Wednesday rose from three days of negotiations here, agreeing on a tight timeline to hold elections and ratify the country's draft constitution before the current transitional government ends in August. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Forces of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have made significant progress in the last 24 hours towards Afgoye town, about 25 kilometres west of the capital, Mogadishu, the Mission announced Wednesday. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi and Somalia are to strengthen their diplomatic relations by opening embassies in Mogadishu and Bujumbura respectively. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Augustine Mahiga, has expressed concern over recent violent clashes in the northern city of Hargeisa, located in Somaliland, between Somali security forces and citizens which allegedly resulted in deaths on both sides. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Thousands of people in Somaliland are getting more fresh meat in their diet due to an innovative World Food Programme (WFP) initiative that provides parents with vouchers to help them afford nutritious food from local traders, a WFP statement made available to PANA here Wednesday said. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia, Mr. Augustine Mahiga, has called on the international community to boost their efforts to help Somalia through its peace and national reconciliation process. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - There were dramatic scenes at the Somali Embassy in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, Friday when the Horn of African nation's Ambassador to Zambia Shirwa Ibrahim received another diplomat who was appointed to take over his job without being informed. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said Friday it regretted the injuries sustained by civilians following the collision of an armoured vehicle and a civilian mini-bus in the Somali capita, Mogadishu. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Issa Hayatou of African soccer's governing body, CAF, has expressed ''shock and sadness'' at the death of Somali FA president Nur Said Mohamud in a suicide bomb attack in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 10 journalists were reported injured, several of them seriously, in the bomb that ripped through Somalia's newly-reopened national theatre in Mogadishu Wednesday, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somalia’s militant group, Al Shabaab, claimed responsibility for a suicide attack at the Somali National Theatre, which killed seven people and warned of further attacks targeting the top officials of the interim government. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and the country's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) have launched a Joint Fusion and Liaison Unit (UFL) to ensure timely information sharing, according to an AMISOM press statement which was received by PANA on Wednesday.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan authorities have been urged not to return refugees to Somalia because of ongoing fighting and abuses against civilians in areas controlled by Kenyan forces and allied militias. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Sunday's shooting of Somali radio journalist Mohyadin Hassan Mohamed in the nation's capital, Mogadishu, and called on the authorities to ensure his safety. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Exiled former Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, 77, has died in a hospital in the United Arabs Emirates (UAE), where he was admitted for an unknown illness, sources said Friday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Judith Telbutt, the British tourist whose kidnapping in Lamu forced the Kenyan forces to launch a military offensive in Somalia, has been freed from captivity after nearly six months, her family said Wednesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa has established formal diplomatic relations with Somalia and committed 100 million rand (US$13 million) to help the transitional Somali government build adequate institutions of governance. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Welcoming the outcome of the recent London conference on Somalia, the African Union Peace and Security Council on Friday stressed the need to maintain the current international momentum towards the peace and reconciliation process in Somalia.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somalia’s interim government was projecting an Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Following the killing of yet another Somali journalist, Ali Ahmed Abdi, the global media rights body -- International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) -- on Monday expressed “total dismay over the serial killing of Journalists” in Somalia, PANA reports. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, Mr. Augustine Mahiga, has said Somalia currently has the best opportunity to end its two decades-long conflict and bring lasting peace and stability to the country. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The global media rights body, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), on Wednesday condemned the “brutal murder” of a Somali journalist, Abukar Hassan Mahamoud, PANA reports from here Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UN Special envoy Augustine Mahiga, has called for urgent investigations into the killing of a prominent Somali radio executive, Abukar Mohamed Kadaf, the Director of Somaliweyn Radio, killed Tuesday in Mogadishu. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Unidentified gunmen have assassinated a veteran journalist who had been trying to relaunch a radio station that extremist group Al-Shabaab had shut down and looted in 2010 in Somalia, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said, quoting local journalists. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned last week's arrest and brutal assault of Mohamed Abdirahman, a journalist in the semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Thursday's London Somali conference failed to mention the plight of seafarers and sidelined the issue of piracy, according to a spokesperson from SaveOurSeafers, the global campaign aimed at raising awareness of and ending Somali piracy. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged the international community to heed the "cries for peace" of the Somali people and help them overcome decades of instability and build a more stable and prosperous future. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) has said it will extend, by two years, its Atalante Operation against piracy in the Indian Ocean, according to a statement issued Thursday in Brussels. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - As representatives of more than 50 countries and international organizations gathered in London Thursday for a one-day international conference on Somalia, the US has announced a donation of US$64 million in humanitarian assistance to the Horn of Africa, including Somalia. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, will take part in an international conference on Somalia, beginning Thursday in London, according to an official statement issued Wednesday in Bujumbura, the capital. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki arrived in London Wednesday to attend the London Conference on Somalia which will take place at the Lancaster House on Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan will attend the international conference on Somalia, scheduled to hold at Lancaster House in London Thursday, the presidency said in a statement. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – An international conference on Somalia, scheduled for Thursday in London, will be attended by high-ranking European Union (EU) officials, including the High Representative of the EU for External Policy and Common Security, Ms. Cathérine Ashton, and the European Commissioner in charge of Development, Andris Piebalgs. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Japan has agreed to provide funding for a water treatment project for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Somalia, which has been wracked by ethnic clashes and unrest for the last two decades. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Somalia’s warring parties have all failed to protect Somali children from the fighting or serving in their forces, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Tuesday. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – A Somali pirate, found guilty of participating in attacking the Belgian boat, "Pompei", and taking 10 crew members hostage in April, 2009, was Wednesday jailed 10 years by the Belgian Court of Appeal in Brussels, PANA learnt from official sources here. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The International Contact Group on Somalia (ICG), which brings together the UN and its diplomatic partners in support of efforts to restore peace and stability in Somalia, on Monday insisted that the country’s current transitional governing arrangements must end on 20 August, 2012, as stipulated in recent agreements. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Friday asserted that the moment to stabilize Somalia has come and called on the international community to take advantage of the opportunity. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan troops have killed about 100 Al Shabaab fighters during an air raid around Dalayat, a small town in South Somalia, a key logistics hub for the militia group which fell to the Kenyan troops earlier this week, a military spokesman said Friday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN on Friday declared an end to famine in Somalia, but warned that with recurrent droughts in the Horn of Africa, hunger remains a threat unless long-term measures are taken to restore food security. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) on Monday condemned the killing of Somali journalist Hassan Osman Abdi, calling it “a cowardly act”. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The President of the UN General Assembly, Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Troops of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have secured two new positions outside the Somali capital, Mogadishu, after a fierce battle with the Al Shabaab, in a continuing effort to further their grip on strategic locations. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya’s military said Thursday the Al Shabaab was set to execute two more Kenyan recruits within its ranks, accused of espionage a day after stoning another to death. Full text...