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The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Thursday the number of Somali refugees voluntarily repatriated from the Dadaab camp in northwest Kenya had reached 30, 349 since December 2014.
Burundi has said the European Union's move to cut funding for the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is "unfair".
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says it has repatriated 13,800 Somali refugees as of April 28 from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya since the voluntary program started in December 2014.
Somalia's security forces on Monday arrested six Al-Shabaab suspects in connection to the deadly twin blast in the Baidoa town in south-Somalia's central Bay region.
Food security and malnutrition situation in Somalia is alarming, especially in parts of Puntland and Somaliland which have been hard hit by poor rainfall and drought exacerbated by El Nino, a UN-backed report reveals on Monday.
BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhua) -- The international community has strongly condemned a suicide attack on a hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu which killed at least 15 people.
A hotel blast in the Somali capital on Sunday has killed 15 people and injured dozens of others, sources said, adding that the Chinese Embassy in Somalia was partially damaged and that Chinese nationals are among the injured.
Four senior leaders of the militant group Al-Shabaab were killed early Thursday in a drone strike in Somalia's southern Juungal area, the Kenyan government has confirmed.
Kenyan police confirmed on Monday a major manhunt for the pursuit of more than 300 Al-Shabaab returnees who sneaked into the country from Somalia.
Seven women have been killed in Somalia's Tiyeglow town, local police said Wednesday.
The UN Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that they are " appalled" by the suicide car bombings targeting a popular hotel in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, calling the attacks "acts of terrorism."
The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Mahamet Saleh Annadif, has condemned the ambush attack in the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, which killed six people and injured two.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday strongly condemned the deadly attacks on a police station in Somalia, saying that these terrorist acts "have caused tremendous suffering."
The UN Security Council on Monday extended for another year the mandate for states and regional organizations to fight Somali pirates and stressed the need for a comprehensive approach by the international community to tackle the root causes of the scourge.
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