Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Calm returned to Fagah village, north of Mogadishu Thursday after a two-day clan fighting left 30 people dead and 100 injured. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- A high ranking Somali National Alliance (SNA) official has been killed in a shootout in Mogadishu. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Thirteen people have died, while 20 others were injured in fighting between two Somali rival clans in Mogadishu, witnesses said Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN has condemned the abduction of one of its staff by gunmen in Mogadishu, Somalia early this week. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan police nabbed eight Somali nationals Wednesday night as they were about to board a plane bound for the Far East, on suspicions of forging travel documents. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A UN-appointed independent expert on the human rights situation in Somalia, Ghanim Alnajjar, has arrived in the region for an 11-day mission during which he will hold discussions with diplomats, local authorities, civil society representatives and international organisations in Kenya and Somalia. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Community of Sahelian-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) has called on the chairman of the Commission of the African Union (AU) to organise an international conference on peace, security and national reconciliation in Somalia. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- At least 20 people have been reported killed and many more injured in heavy clan fighting which erupted again on Tuesday at Masagowaa village in Galgadud region in northern Mogadishu. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The US has dismissed fears that it plans to invade Somalia in pursuit of suspected members of the Al Qaeda network, rumoured to have taken refuge in that country, a senior American official has said. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- At least 13 people were killed and 20 others got wounded in heavy clan fighting which continued for the third day Monday in Masagowaa village of Somali's Galgadud region, north of Mogadishu. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A regional committee on a fact-finding tour of war-torn Somalia has submitted its report to Kenyan authorities paving the way for the resumption of the country's tedious peace negotiations in Kenya next month. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia, PANA) -- The Chairman of Peace and Human Rights Network in Somalia, Abdullahi Haji Dayib, has condemned the high rate of child abuse in many parts of the country which has not had a central government for more than a decade. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Some 27 children are reported to have died from an unknown disease at Faro-gure village in the Somali southern Juba region. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Five people were killed and 10 others wounded following heavy fighting Monday afternoon between rival forces keen on controlling Somali's north-east region of Puntland. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- There is a decline in the security situation in Somalia which is making work there difficult for its staffers, UN Resident and Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Somalia, Maxwell Gaylard, said Tuesday in Nairobi. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The United Nations Friday demanded the immediate and unconditional release of a project staff member in Somalia, Abdulkadir Mohamed Abikar, who is currently being held in a hideout in Mogadishu. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Somali gunmen Tuesday kidnapped a worker of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Mogadishu as a wave of violence against civilians and international aid workers increased. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- UN Security Council members expressed concern Tuesday over the worsening humanitarian situation in Somalia, calling on parties involved in fighting, particularly in the Gedo region to provide access and guarantee safety for humanitarian personnel. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Reports from middle Shabelle region of southern Somalia indicate that calm has returned to the villages of Elbaraf, Magurto and Ali Foldere in Mahadai district, where clan clashes claimed 19 lives on Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The leader of Somalia's Communities Party, Mohamed Haji Barako, has appealed to the UN, the European Union and the international community to intervene in ending the clan wars that have since 1991 claimed many lives in the country. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Nineteen people were killed Monday when fighting erupted in the Somali village of El-Baraf, about 90 km north of the capital Mogadishu, between clan militias loyal to Home Affairs minister Col. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- At least two militia men were killed and two policemen were injured Wednesday during a clash between Somali police and a militia group loyal to some businessmen at the Bakara market in Mogadishu, witnesses said. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Panic gripped the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Monday following military exercises and movements by both the national forces and militiamen of opposition groups based in the town. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- The president of the breakaway region of South-West Somalia, Colonel Hasan Mohamed Nur Sargadud Monday arrived in the Ethiopian provincial town of Godey for talks with Ethiopian high ranking officials. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- Ten Somali refugees, eight of them children have died from disease and malnutrition over the past 10 days in a refugee camp in north eastern Kenya, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said in New York Tuesday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Acting on Security Council request, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has named a two-man team to develop an action plan on the resources and expertise needed to investigate violations of the arms embargo on Somalia. Full text...

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) -- Addis Ababa has dismissed as "fabrications and lies" claims by the authorities in Mogadishu that Ethiopian troops had carried out incursions into parts of south-western Somalia. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- War and drought-stricken Somalia is to receive humanitarian grant worth two million Euro (about 1. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Nairobi Magistrate's Court Wednesday ordered the deportation of 12 Somali immigrants who entered Kenya illegally last week. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said Tuesday it was waiting for the approval of the Kenyan government to relocate some 5,000 Somali refugees camped in the northern Kenyan town of Mandera. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Ethiopian military helicopters were allegedly sighted on Sunday over several districts in central Somalia, with the authorities in Mogadishu insisting the aircraft must have been on a surveillance mission. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Police have arrested a Kenyan pilot and impounded an aircraft that brought in 21 illegal immigrants from Somalia, the press reported in Nairobi Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Gunmen have unconditionally released the UNDP programme coordinator in Mogadishu, Prof. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- At least 12 of the 200 Zanzibari refugees staying in Mogadishu want to be repatriated because of the deteriorating condition of their camp and the yearning desire to get back home. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is in talks with the Kenyan government to relocate some 10,000 Somali refugees to a camp at Dabaab on the border with Ethiopia. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- The minister for Energy in the Somali transitional national government (TNG), Warsame Abokor has resigned and gone to Hergeisa, the capital of self-proclaimed Somaliland republic, citing its ineffectiveness to restore peace. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Somalia has accused neighbouring Ethiopia of invading its territory and asked the UN to punish Addis Ababa with sanctions. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Tension was reported Thursday in Somalia's autonomous north-eastern Puntland region after the collapse of Ethiopia-brokered peace talks between the region's President Jama Ali Jama and his rival Colonel Abdulahi Yusuf. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- At least three militia men were killed and five others were injured in Tuesday night's fighting at the Burhakaba area near the Somali provincial town of Baidoa, 250-km south-west of Mogadishu. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Three persons were killed and more than 20 others injured after a fierce fire broke out Monday night at Mogadishu's main market of Bakaraha. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Fire was still raging Tuesday at Mogadishu's main Bakaraha market where it erupted Monday night killing three people and injuring more than 20 injured. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- The Transitional National Government (TNG) in Mogadishu Tuesday threatened it would not participate in the reconciliatory talks under preparation in Nairobi if Ethiopia is not excluded from being one of the convenors of the conference. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Delegations led by the President of the Somalia's breakaway region of Puntland, Jama Ali Jama, and his rival, Abdulahi Yusuf, are in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to start negotiations on how to resolve their power struggle which has brought violence to the troulbed country. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Mogadishu-based Somali warlord Musa Sudi Yalahow has warned that fighting could erupt in Mogadishu if the Somali Transitional Government (TNG) tried to carry out its plan to reopen the country's main seaport in the capital which has remained closed since 1995. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- At least 16 Somalis have died in the past 24 hours following an outbreak of cholera in Kismayo, some 500 km south of Mogadishu, the Somali capital. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Northern Mogadishu residents were in shock Sunday when news reached them that a popular medical doctor, Dahir Sheikh Ahmed, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the Somali capital. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Some 30,000 Somali refugees would be repatriated from Ethiopia this year, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in Ethiopia. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A coalition of aid agencies operating in Somalia Thursday said that it was concerned about the deteriorating security in that country's northern Gedo Region and appealed to the parties involved to put to an end to the hostilities. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- The Somali Peace Talk's Technical Committee members flew into Mogadishu Thursday on a fact-finding mission. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- At least seven people were reported killed and several others injured in fresh clashes Friday at the Somali town of Lugh in the Gedo region, some 400-km south-west of Mogadishu, informed sources said. Full text...