Somalia’s Shebab Islamist group has growing links with Al-Qaeda and poses a potential threat to foreign interests by radicalising Western youths, a leading expert warned on Tuesday. Raffaello Pantucci said Somali youths in the United States,...

Somalia’s state minister for defence has been kidnapped in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, according to relatives and government sources. Sheikh Yusuf Mohammad Siad, also known as Indaade, was seized from a house where members of his family had...

The nation lingered in political limbo Monday, with its election commission staying silent on the results of Saturday’s presidential race, raising additional concerns that President Robert G. Mugabe was intent on rigging the outcome.