2013-05-14
Harmonised education standards would allow citizens and companies in the East African Community to cross borders in search of employment and opportunities, stakeholders say.
The Somali government is trying to establish a new worldwide diplomatic mission to highlight its policies on economic and human development.
2013-05-13
As part of efforts to eliminate the al-Shabaab threat, the government is reviving the Kenya Police Reserve, a unit of armed civilians who will go undercover in their communities.
More than 200 illiterate and innumerate Somali women are receiving free instruction at a Waberi District school.
2013-05-10
Conference participants pledged nearly $450 million in aid to help the Somali government re-build the country and its armed forces.
The Kenya Police Operations Centre will give the country an edge in warding off extremist threats by co-ordinating efforts among national security agencies, government officials say.
2013-05-17
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Thursday (May 16th) received credentials from the newly appointed South Korean ambassador to Somalia Kim Chan...
At least four people were killed and three injured Thursday (May 16th) when suspected al-Shabaab militants attacked government bases in El Barde in t...
Kenya and Tanzania carried out a joint border security operation Thursday (May 16th) after five people were killed by bandits in the border town of N...
Pro-government Somali militia Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa member Artan Sheikhdon was killed after explosives planted in his car detonated in Mogadishu's Hod...
Three women were killed Thursday night (May 16th) in the Malkamau area of Mandera County in Kenya by suspected militiamen from Ethiopia, Kenya's The...
United Nation Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Thursday (May 16th) nominated former Kenyan Minister of Trade and Industry Mukhisa Kituyi to lead the Uni...
Tanzania and Canada have signed a co-operation agreement designed to promote and create favourable investment conditions between the two countries, T...
2013-05-16
The Somali National Army killed 13 al-Shabaab militants Tuesday (May 14th), rebuffing an al-Shabaab attack on the outskirts of Farwaley and Ara As in...
The deadline for Mandera residents to surrender illegal firearms has been extended to Friday (May 17th), Kenyan Inspector General of Police David Kim...
The European Union Training Mission for Somalia (EUTM Somalia) opened its training operation in Mogadishu Wednesday (May 15th), in a move Somali Pres...
Ahmed Abdi Godane repeated his usual themes yet failed to address the criticism he is facing from a growing number of other top al-Shabaab leaders.
![An engineer with the Kenya Generating Company monitors systems at the Masinga hydro-electricity dam control room. With harmonised educational standards, engineers could work in East African countries that have the most need. [Tony Karumba/AFP]](/shared/images/2013/05/14/kenya-dam-engineer-270_180.jpg)
![Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (centre) lays a cement block at the site of Somalia's new embassy in Doha, Qatar, in March. Somali Minister of Foreign Affairs Fowsiyo Yusuf Haji Aadan and Qatari officials look on. [File]](/shared/images/2013/05/14/somalia-qatar-embassy-270_180.jpg)
![A Kenyan soldier watches an Orange Democratic Movement rally in Garissa on February 27th. Armed civilian police reservists will soon help keep the peace in the town, guarding against threats from al-Shabaab. [Will Boase/AFP]](/shared/images/2013/05/13/kenya-kpr-garissa-270_180.jpg)
![Women clap during a ceremony in August 2012 at Konis Stadium, marking the first anniversary of al-Shabaab's withdrawal from Mogadishu. [Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP]](/shared/images/2013/05/13/somalia-mogadishu-women-270_180.jpg)
![Mogadishu residents took to the streets on Tuesday (May 7th) to show support for the London conference on Somalia. [Abdi Said/Sabahi]](/shared/images/2013/05/10/mogadishu-london-rally3-270_180.jpg)
![Police officers with police dogs face demonstrators in Nairobi's Eastleigh neighbourhood on November 19, 2012, a day after a bomb exploded in a minibus, killing seven. [Carl de Souza/AFP]](/shared/images/2013/05/10/kenya-police-nairobi-270_180.jpg)
![Police arrest suspected al-Shabaab members during a security sweep in Mogadishu in October 2012. [Abdurashid Abdulle Abikar/AFP]](/shared/images/2013/05/09/somalia-mogadishu-shabaab-100_67.jpg)