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Somalia’s parliament votes to extend president’s mandate

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s parliament on Monday voted to effectively extend the mandate of the president and federal government by two years in an...

Pentagon chief orders review of deadly 2020 attack in Kenya

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BERLIN — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday ordered an Army review of an investigation into a January 2020 militant assault on the Manda...

Djibouti says longtime president on way to winning 5th term

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Djibouti’s government says longtime President Ismail Omar Guelleh has overwhelmingly won a fifth term, citing provisional results. ...

Explosions in two Somalia cities kill at least 5

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside a cafe in Somalia's city of Baidoa on Saturday, killing at least four people...

Djibouti votes as president Guelleh seeks a 5th term

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Horn of African country of Djibouti is going to the polls on Friday as President Ismail Omar Guelleh seeks a...

Kenya court suspends gov’t move to close 2 refugee camps

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's high court on Thursday suspended the government move to shut down two camps that hold hundreds of thousands of refugees...

Explosions at 2 Somali army bases kill at least 9

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Simultaneous large explosions were heard in and around two Somali army bases on Saturday, with the military confirming at least nine...

UN urges Somali leaders to break impasse delaying elections

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council called on Somalia’s leaders Wednesday to meet “at the earliest opportunity” to break the impasse delaying the...

Bus in Kenya’s hostile north hits roadside bomb, 4 killed

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NAIROBI, Kenya — A Kenyan official says four passengers were killed and dozens wounded when a bus hit an improvised bomb on a main...

Kenya leaves int’l court case on ocean dispute with Somalia

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya has withdrawn from International Court of Justice hearings on its dispute with neighboring Somalia over territory in the Indian Ocean....