Turkey's national carrier is aiming to expand service and officials have rejected reports that its considering selling shares to foreign investors.
A terrorist attack on two New Zealand mosques took the lives of 50 worshippers on Friday and left dozens more wounded when a white supremacist opened fire and live-streamed the shootings.
The Somali-based branch of Al Qaeda has sharpened its focus on East African countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Sudan, recruiting hundreds if not thousands of fighters.
Since 1990, thousands of Somalis have either left their home countries as economic migrants or fled as refugees. Most of them have spent months, if not years, in refugee camps in Kenya and other neighbouring countries.
The deal has made local fishermen vulnerable to poverty as Chinese fishing companies are likely to outcompete them and also trigger another round of piracy in the Gulf of Aden.
Although Uganda is the largest troop-contributing country to the AMISOM peacekeeping force, experts say all foreign armies should withdraw from Somalia and allow local forces to take the charge of maintaining peace and security.
The US has for years hidden its armed drone programme behind a veil of secrecy and President Trump has now stopped whatever little public disclosure remained.
Kenya and Somalia have failed to reach an amicable solution over ownership of the 162,579 sq km triangle of disputed maritime territory in the Indian Ocean.
Nine people were wounded in the attack, claimed by Al Shabab militant group, near a restaurant in central Mogadishu, police say.
A 12-year-old girl in Somalia’s autonomous region of Puntland was kidnapped, gang raped and murdered, prompting demonstrations in the streets.
The two countries are wrangling over the ownership of energy-rich blocks in the Indian Ocean and waiting for the ICJ to resolve the conflict.
Gunmen battled security forces in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Friday morning, hours after insurgents launched a car bomb attack in a busy street that left at least 29 dead, police said.
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