Al Shabab

Somali government spokesman wounded by suicide bomb blast -police, state media

MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Somalia's government spokesman was wounded on Sunday in an explosion at a road junction set off by a suicide bomber in the capital Mogadishu, police and the national…

Men accused of facilitating the killing of Paul Formosa in Somalia sentenced to death

The men accused of killing Maltese port manager Paul Formosa in Somalia last February were sentenced to death by a military tribunal, Somali media report. The Somali website Garowe Online…

More details on Formosa’s killing in Somalia – ‘Reported Conversion’ to Islam in 2017 failed to get him accepted in community

Somalia's al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group shot and killed a Maltese man on Monday, authorities said. The slain man was working for a Dubai government-owned port operator in the country's semi-autonomous…