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

Tesfaye Yilma, the Ethiopian permanent representative to the United Nations accused "extra-regional actors that have no ...

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

It provides for the replacement of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), whose mandate ends on December 31 ...

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

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Burundi has withdrawn from the new African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Burundi has withdrawn from the new African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) due to a lack of consensus with Somalia over troop allocation.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 authorized an African Union stabilisation and support mission in Somalia – known as AUSSOM – on Friday that will replace a larger AU anti-terrorism operation from ...

New Delhi: The Security Council Friday backed the African Union’s decision to replace ATMIS with AUSSOM. This decision marks ...

Ethiopia has been a key part of previous African Union missions and had expressed interest in remaining part of Aussom. But Somali officials had vowed to exclude Ethiopia before the Ankara Declaration ...

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told the Azerbaijani leader, Ilham Aliyev, in a phone call, “that the tragic incident took place in Russian airspace.” By Anatoly Kurmanaev Flight ...

Egypt extended its condolences to South Korea over the plane crash which occurred southwest of the capital Seoul early on Sunday, according to a press statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.