After a lull in its aerial campaign against Boko Haram terrorist camps, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has carried out fresh air strikes targeted at terrorists’ bunkers in Sambisa forest. Military sources said the targeted strikes were aimed at hidden supply routes and fortified terrorist enclaves w...

talian rescuers have found 18 bodies on a boat carrying hundreds of asylum-seekers and another died while being evacuated, the ANSA news agency reports. All were apparently killed by toxic fumes from the boat's engine. The boat, with 600 people on board, was intercepted on Saturday south of th...

Mogadishu, Somalia - A country whose very name is almost enough of an introduction, Somalia's reputation of unfathomable violence and desperate poverty is known around the world. In decades of civil war, it has been described as a "failed state" - a lawless home to gangs of pirates and murderers who...

In Somalia, government forces backed by African Union troops have stepped up their fight against the al-Shabab rebels. In recent months, the group has suffered significant losses in the south of the country. And, on Friday, Burundian and Somali forces took the port town of Cadale in Middle Shabel...

Suspected members of Somalia's al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab fighters have attacked a fortified area housing regional government headquarters, an airport and a United Nations compound in the central town of Baidoa, security officials said. "They are Shebab disguised in Somali military uniforms. T...

The newly formed Parliament of Jubbaland which was sworn in recently is set to be inaugurated on Saturday amid controversy surrounding how the selection process was carried out. Officials of the Jubbaland presidency who spoke to Wacaal.com on condition of anonymity confirmed that the inauguration ce...

Yemen's government and Houthi rebels have agreed to free half of the prisoners and detainees held by either side in the first breakthrough of the peace talks that began last month. Officials from the two delegations have said that a working group formed by the UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh ...

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Sunday for the second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge that will play a key role in the East-West Economic Corridor traversing continental Southeast Asia. The ceremony for the bridge linking the Myanmar border town of Myawaddy and the Thai town of Mae Sot was attend...

Impartially Investigate Airstrikes, Compensate Victims (Abuja) – Nigerian authorities should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the January 17, 2017 airstrikes that hit a settlement for displaced people who had fled Boko Haram, killing at least 70 people, including nine ...

Thai firm Italian¬Thai Development Plc (ITD) says it is ready to restart construction of the long¬delayed Dawei deep-sea port and special economic zone over the next few months if the Thai and Burmese governments approve continuation of the megaproject at a joint meeting on 10 February. Premchai ...