Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan troops continued their assault on Al Shabaab territories Thursday, foiling an apparent attack on the Kenyan soil and recovering 14 assault rifles left behind in a rebel hideout, a military spokesman said. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki chaired a cabinet meeting in Nairobi Tuesday to discuss the progress made in the country’s war against the Al Qaeda-linked militant group, Al Shabaab, as two top officials arrived in Mogadishu to hold talks with the Somali leadership. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan troops crossed 100 kilometres deep into Somali territory Monday, with virtually no military resistance, targeting a suspected Al Shabaab hideout in an offensive code-named “Operation Linda Nchi”, a Swahili word for protect the nation.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and its partners are scaling up Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Five Kenyan soldiers were killed following the crash of a military helicopter shortly after takeoff at the Liboi border point, along the country's common border with Somalia, the local media reported Monday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan security forces have launched a military offensive in Somalia against the Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group Al Shabaab, a police commander confirmed here Sunday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan troops will enter Somali territory in “hot-pursuit” of the Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab militant group, which has carried out a series of kidnappings and staged armed incursions into Kenya. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Union (AU) said it was in solidarity with Kenya following a series of armed raids in the East African nation as a result of the deteriorating regional security caused by lawlessness in Somalia. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The Burundian army on Wednesday asked for a "neutral" enquiry into the death of a Malaysian journalist and injury to another during a shootout in Mogadishu, Somalia, between African Union peacekeepers in Somalia (AMISOM) and unidentified gunmen. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation has condemned Tuesday's terror attack that left over 70 dead in Mogadishu, Somalia. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - International condemnation of Tuesday's terrorist attack in Somalia that killed 70 students and injured scores of others poured out on Wednesday amid calls for action to end anarchy in the Horn of Africa nation. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has condemned Tuesday's deadly suicide attack by the Islamic group al-Shabaab against innocent civilians in Mogadishu, Somalia, calling it a 'cowardly act of terrorism'. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency said Tuesday it is "very concerned" by the latest escalation of violence in southern Somalia. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A suicide bomb explosion in Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Tuesday killed and maimed scores of people in what was considered one of the worst attacks. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – The UN Security Council on Friday called on the African Union Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Somalia’s Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali on Saturday alerted the UN to the activities of Islamist militants, whom he said have wreaked havoc in southern Somalia and are now looking to strike outside the country. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) criticized the world for deploying “half-hearted measures” to deal with the crisis in Somalia and called for urgent help to deploy 3,000 more troops on the ground to stabilise Somalia. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Deaths amongst the Somalia's new arrival refugees at the various camps in Ethiopia have reduced drastically over the past weeks as a result of improved feeding programmes initiated by relief agencies, a UN bulletin revealed. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Augustine Mahiga, the Special Representative of UN Secretary-General on Somalia, on Thursday said that a broad consensus on how to end the transitional period and restore peace and stability in Somalia now exists among the country’s leadership.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UNICEF said Thursday it would maintain its humanitarian response to the food crisis in Somalia and in camps in neighbouring countries, where refugees from the country have sought assistance, even with the expected onset of the rainy season.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A French woman, captured by suspected Somali pirates, has been released from captivity but her spouse was killed during a sea hijack incident, an anti-piracy task force said Tuesday.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ignoring criticisms that the deployment of peacekeepers to Somalia could compromise an already fragile situation in the country, Djiboutian officials Thursday announced plans to send a battalion there in October. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - An agreement to bring a cycle of successive interim governments to an end has been reached amongst Somali leaders, bringing the prospect of a dependable government into the picture for a country that has lacked a central authority for over two decades. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed the adoption of a new plan aimed at bringing unity, peace and stability to Somalia and called on the international community to provide additional resources to the country's transitional leaders to support the roadmap. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said Tuesday that children were bearing the brunt of the Horn of Africa crisis and constituted the majority of all Somali refugees in neighbouring Ethiopia. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres Thursday called for a rapid increase in aid for Somalis uprooted by drought, famine and conflict, after he visited the capital, Mogadishu, which is hosting some 400,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commission for Refugee (UNHCR) said Tuesday it would airlift 240 tons of aid from Saudi Arabia to Somalia during the Eid el-Fitr holiday, to ensure that those facing severe food crisis in the Horn of Africa country have enough to eat during the special occasion. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Authorities in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland should conduct a thorough investigation into a grenade attack against a private radio station that left a security guard injured and the station damaged, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Monday from its New York, US, base. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Angola will donate US$5 million to the African Union (AU) for victims of the famine and drought in the Horn of Africa, according to a communiqué from the Angolan mission to AU in Addis Ababa received in Dakar. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed has visited the semi-autonomous state of Puntland in what a UN envoy called a new chapter in the relations between the two states. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in Egypt, Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayeb, has asked Muslims around the world to help alleviate the suffering of millions of Somalis facing the threat of dying from starvation due to the severe drought and famine that has hit the horn of Africa country.Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda has granted US$100,000 in humanitarian aid to victims of the devastating famine in Somalia, the Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Louise Mushikiwabo, said on Thursday. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawy, on Wednesday ordered the immediate airlifting of food and medical aid to famine-hit Somalia. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Prime Minister of Rwanda, Bernard Makuza, is to represent his country at the summit of heads of state and government of the African Union (AU) member countries in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, according to a communiqué issued Wednesday in Kigali, the capital. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The 11-year-old pupil who has embarked on a project to raise GH¢20 million (US$13 million) to help victims of the famine in Somalia is to address the African Union’s Pledging Conference on 25 August in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - European Union’s top foreign affairs representative Catherine Ashton, has praised the EU Naval Task force (EUNAFOR), which has been battling piracy off the coast of Somalia. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt's charity foundation "Misr Al-Kheir", chaired by the country's Grand Mufti, Dr. Ali Gomaa, plans to send humanitarian assistance to Somalia, which has been hit by drought and famine.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Sudan (PANA) - Experts have called for the acceleration of deployment of additional troops pledged by Burundi, Uganda, Djibouti, Republic of Guinea and Sierra Leone to enable the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) to quickly reach the strength of 12,000 troops, a statement issued by the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said on Friday. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings, on Friday met President of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) Moussa Idriss Ndélé, in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss the humanitarian crisis occasioned by the drought situation in the Horn of Africa and in particular Somalia.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed an outbreak of Cholera in Somalia, which has affected 4,272 people, mostly children, in crowded urban slums in Mogadishu and Kismayo. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council on Tuesday stressed the need for all Somali groups to participate in next month’s consultative meeting convened to seek agreement on a roadmap on key priorities to be implemented over the next year by the country’s Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs). Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Somali President Ahmed Sheikh Ahmed, arrived in Bujumbura on Monday for a two-day visit to Burundi, the Burundi national radio station reported here. Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egyptian Muslim Scholars have issued a 'fatwa' -- a legal pronouncement in Islam -- which says that "helping those suffering in Somalia is the top priority at the moment". Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria on Friday expressed concern at the famine in Somalia, stating that his country and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) would make appropriate responses at the forthcoming pledging conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 25 August.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has renewed calls for the UN Security Council to authorise the deployment of 20,000 peacekeepers to Somalia in the wake of the recent victory against the Al Shabaab militants in Mogadishu. Full text...

New York, US PANA) - Ms. Margot Wallstrom, the Special Representative of the UN Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Somalia,Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) Commission President Jean Ping was expected to lead a high-profile delegation to visit the Dollo Ado refugee camp in Southern Ethiopia Thursday, as part of efforts to raise awareness on the drought and famine crises that has hit the Horn of Africa. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union (AU) Wednesday called on the international community to urgently take the required steps to build on the recent repulsion of Al-Shabab elements out of the Somali capital and provide badly needed humanitarian assistance there. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) Executive Committee at the ministerial level will hold an emergency meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on 17 August, to discuss efforts on the famine in southern Somalia and surrounding areas. Full text...