Somalia

Somalia

US airstrikes target IS fighters in Somalia, Trump says

The US president said he had ordered airstrikes on the so-called IS group targets in Somalia on Saturday.

01/02/2025

Somalia

At least 32 dead in hotel attack in Somalia

Al-Qaeda’s East Africa affiliate, al-Shabaab, said through its radio that its fighters carried out the attack.

03/08/2024

Ethiopia

Euroviews. Somalia-Ethiopia jitters could plunge the Horn of Africa into chaos

A breakout of a war between Ethiopia and Somalia would carry catastrophic consequences not just for the region, but for Africa as a whole, Mohamed El-Bendary writes.

18/01/2024

Climate

Meet the young people who face a future as climate migrants

What does climate mobility mean? Young Africans and Pacific Islanders share their thoughts from the frontlines at COP28.

19/12/2023

Somalia

Somalia: At least 15 dead and scores injured in suicide attack

As of Saturday, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack as residents remain trapped under rubble from damaged buildings in the town of Beledweyne.

23/09/2023

World News

Somalia: Nine killed after extremist attack on Mogadishu hotel

Police in Somalia say nine people, including three soldiers, were killed in Friday night’s extremist attack on a beachside hotel in the capital, Mogadishu.

10/06/2023

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Floods in central Somalia displace more than 400,000 people

Residents fear a cholera epidemic and malaria outbreak if the floods continue.

16/05/2023

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Watch: Education offers hope in a Somalian refugee camp

In Mogadishu, the Somali capital, various refugee camps dot the sprawling metropolis. They’re mainly filled with people fleeing conflict in the country, between the government and Islamist groups. Education offers hope

08/12/2022

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Search for bodies in Somalia’s capital after two bomb blasts

People try to search for bodies in the rubble after two vehicle bombs killed at least 100 people in the Somalia capital Mogadishu in an attack claimed by Al-Shabab Islamists.

30/10/2022

Somalia

'100 dead, 300 hurt' as two car bombs rock Somali capital Mogadishu

Somalia's president said the toll could rise in the country's deadliest attack since a truck bombing at the same spot in the capital five years ago.

29/10/2022

Somalia

Somali forces end al-Shabab hotel attack that left at least 21 dead

It took Somali forces more than 30 hours to contain the fighters who had stormed Mogadishu's Hayat Hotel on Friday evening in an assault leaving at least 21 dead and scores wounded.

21/08/2022

Somalia

At least 10 dead as gunmen storm Somalia hotel

Gunfire could still be heard early Saturday as security forces tried to contain the last of the attackers.

20/08/2022

Somalia

Somalia: severe drought puts millions of people at risk of famine

Severe drought has placed millions of people at risk of famine in the horn of Africa. Euronews speaks to Karl Schembri from the Norwegian Refugee Council.

13/08/2022

Sport

UK police launch investigation after Mo Farah documentary revelations

The four-time Olympic champion has revealed that he was trafficked to the country as a child.

14/07/2022

Europe News

Meet the Somali refugees breaking through in the Nordics

Both said right-wing parties had pushed them to get into politics

20/06/2022

Somalia

At least eight die in suicide car bomb attack in Somalia's capital

The Islamic extremist group Al-Shabab rammed a vehicle laden with explosives into a checkpoint near the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu.

25/09/2021

Somalia

Somali forces end rebel siege of Mogadishu hotel

Somalia's security forces on Sunday ended a nearly five-hour siege by Islamic extremists at a beachside hotel in Somalia's capital, said police and a government spokesman.

16/08/2020

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Coronavirus is forcing us to fight misinformation as well as hunger this Ramadan ǀ View

This year, probably for the first time in history, instead of urging people to unite and congregate, we Muslims must come together to urge people to stay apart. For us aid workers, it has created a conundrum of how to keep people safe while also getting food aid to hundreds of thousands of families.

11/05/2020

Somalia

Somali engineer invents home-made respirator

Somalia receives a boost in fight against COVID-19 in the form of home-made mechanised respirators, created by 21-year-old Mogadishu-based mechanical engineer A 21-year-old mechanical engineer came up with the device in response to a national shortage.

02/05/2020

World News

UN warns of humanitarian disaster if locust swarms aren't stopped

Billions of locusts have been swarming across the Arabian peninsula and East Africa

14/02/2020