Somalia

US rapper vows to UN to donate one billion meals to starving African children over five years.

Radical Somali Islamist group combines forces with al-Qaida in sign that jihadist movement is spreading.

Younus Abdullah Mohammad pleads guilty to hate campaign over cartoon's 'defamation' of prophet.

Somali prime minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali pledges liberation of Enrico Levoli and 18 crew.

American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, were working for the Danish Deming Group when they were taken hostage by Somali pirates.

US military freed two hostages held captive in Somalia, during a night raid that killed at least nine pirates.

Canada's Africa Oil starts drilling test wells in Puntland region in hope of tapping four billion barrels.

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has led to economic surge in some parts of the country, with ransoms delivering development to the state, according to a report by Chatham House, the UK think-tank.

A NATO task force has identified and "neutralised" two Somali pirate ships off the coasts of Oman and Somalia, according to a statement on the NATO website.

Reporters Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson caught with Ogaden rebel group sentenced to 11 years.

A British soldier, who became an Islamic extremist, has been arrested over allegations of fraud and false misrepresentation after he collected donations in the name of foreign war victims.

Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab has taken its war against the Somali government and Kenyan troops to the next level by setting up a Twitter account.

Italy is the most corrupt country in the eurozone, along with Greece, and has scored less than Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Ghana in the 2011 Corruption Perception Index, compiled by German-based NGO Transparency International.

Israel has offered to help Kenya secure its borders in a bid to fight off the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, which has caused havoc in the region, the Kenyan Prime Minister's office says.

The Prime Minister, in his speech to the Lord Mayor of London's banquet, said the UK had limited goals in the pro-democracy campaign in Libya.

A man who confessed to murdering Ugandan gay activist David Kato has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Former South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, has hinted that that Africa's right to self-determination is still threatened by a "new imperialism", illustrated by the Nato Libyan operation.

Somalia's al Shabaab rebels vowed on Thursday to fight Kenya after its troops entered the Horn of Africa nation and called on sympathisers to carry out major attacks in east Africa's biggest economy.

British and US special forces have seized 11 Somali Pirates in a stormed raid on a hijacked Italian cargo ship off the coast of the Horn of Africa

Al-Shabab Militants detonated a car bomb in Somalia Tuesday in front of the education ministry in Mogadishu, killing at least 70 people and wounding dozens, according to officials, killing said. Among the dead were students and parents.

The news that Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed in Yemen, courtesy of a U.S. drone attack, must surely round off a pretty poor week in an even worse year for the followers of Al-Qaeda.

Heavy fighting broke out Friday close to Somalia's border with Kenya as extremist al Shabaab fighters launched an early attack on the town of Dhobley before being forced to withdraw, according to reports.

Today is Peace Day, a day "for wide-scale community action and a day for UN agencies and aid organisations to safely carry out life-saving work" and is a project brought to life by the Peace One Day organisation, supported by stars such as Jude law or Angelina Jolie and created by Jeremy Gilley.

Following the attack of British couple who were holidaying in Lamu, Kenya in the luxury resort called Kiwayu Safari Village were attacked over the week-end, the piracy problem has come back on the international agenda.

As violent clashes between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria continue to make more casualties, religious tensions continue to threaten the stability of the country.

A theory that climate change could be a cause in triggering conflict, has been given a new boost after a new scientific study found an unmistakeable link between climate fluctuations and violence.

After months of conflict, the rebels control most of Tripoli, but there is still no news of Moammar Gaddafi and his followers are still setting up resistance.

Since it decided to intervene in March, NATO has been fighting in Libya on the rebels side but after months of stagnation, in the last few weeks, the conflict appears to have turned in their favour.

Charities and organisations such as the UN are launching campaigns to raise funds for drought affected East Africa as 10 million people risk losing their life because of famine.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday announced the U.S. government will provide additional 17 million dollars in humanitarian aid to the Horn of Africa region, of which 12 million dollars go to Somalia.