The United Nations has given the green light for a new African peacekeeping mission to tackle the al-Qaida-linked group ...

“This commitment,” Mohamed Rabi stated, “addresses any security vacuum created by Ethiopia while sustaining progress in the ...

The UN Security Council on Friday gave the green light to a new African Union force in Somalia that is meant to take on the ...

Ethiopia has been fighting Al-Shabaab in Somalia since the first AU-led mission (AMISOM) began in 2007. AMISOM was ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gedion Timothewos, held talks with Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Minister of Foreign Affairs and ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Burundi has withdrawn from the new African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Burundi has withdrawn from the new African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) due to a lack of consensus with Somalia over troop allocation.

The United Nations Security Council approved a new African Union force in Somalia on Friday to combat the Islamist militant group al-Shabab, with ...