US sanctions Kenyan bus firm, 15 others over $100m Al Shabaab funding
The owner of a bus services company that plies the northern parts of Kenya is amongst 16 entities and individuals whom the United States has...
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Somali pirates hijack Bangladeshi cargo ship, take more than 20 hostage
Somali pirates hijacked a Bangladeshi cargo ship on Tuesday and took more than 20 of the crew hostage. The cargo ship "MV" Abdullah was hijacked...
Shabaab retakes territory as the U.S. sanctions one of its money laundering networks
Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, is steadily undoing progress made by Somali security services in its nearly two year old counter-offensive against the group....
US targets al Shabaab fundraisers, money launderers with sanctions
The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Monday imposed sanctions on what it said was an international fundraising and money-laundering network for the al Shabaab...
Ethiopian Troops Control 60 Percent of Somalia, Says General Birhanu Jula
The commander of the Ethiopian Defense Forces, General Birhanu Jula, who gave an interview to the government TV, said that the Ethiopian military is in...
Unconfirmed reports of deaths of two Cuban doctors kidnapped in Kenya
The Cuban Foreign Ministry reported Saturday that there is no confirmation of the alleged death in a bombing of the two Cuban doctors Assel Herrera...
Harafa Hussein Abdi: Feds charge Minnesota man who they say aided ISIS and threatened to attack New York
Federal prosecutors announced on Friday, February 16, that a naturalized citizen who had trained with ISIS in his home country, Somalia, and then rapped about...