(Corrects to make clear in penultimate paragraph that the merchant ship boarded earlier this year was not hijacked) MOGADISHU, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Somali pirates have freed seven Indian sailors detained for close to four years in exchange for an undisclosed ransom, Somali officials and a maritime ...

Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. NAIROBI, Kenya, October 30 (UNHCR) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday visited the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex and praised the resilience of more than 350,000 Somali refugees there w...

Somali refugees cheer upon the arrival of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (unseen) at the UNHCR/Kenya Red Cross hospital at the IFO2 east camp, within the Dadaab refugee complex, near the Kenya-Somalia border October 29, 2014. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

UNSG & World Bank President arrive in Mogadishu, pledge support for regional peace & development

NAIROBI, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Kenyans protested on Tuesday against a four-month government curfew imposed on the coastal county of Lamu after gunmen killed about 100 people there this year, authorities and residents said. The government last week extended a dusk-to-dawn curfew until the...

New York, 24 October, 2014 - The United Nations is needed more than ever at this time of multiple crises. Poverty, disease, terrorism, discrimination and climate change are exacting a heavy toll. Millions of people continue to suffer deplorable exploitation through bonded labour, human trafficking...

* Turkish company takes over management of Mogadishu port * Company promises to boost revenue for Somalia's top asset * Workers, lawmakers balk at changes; raise graft concerns By Feisal Omar and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The Somali government's grand vision for Mogadishu...

In this file photo from 2012, Somali police forces patrol the town of Afgoye to the south of Mogadishu in Lower Shabelle region, Somalia. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Kenyan soldiers have killed five suspected al Shabaab militants near the border with Ethiopia and recovered a vehicle packed with explosives, preventing a potentially huge attack, a defence spokesman said on Monday. Kenyan forces intercepted the fiv...

Mogadishu, Somalia - Feysal Mohamed Ahmed is a man living in fear. He is tasked with the unenviable job of collecting taxes in a city awash with small arms and where people aren't accustomed to paying government taxes.