My heart is bleeding, tears have become a common thing in my eyes, I am sad and anxious to know why David murdered my friend. On 21 November, my former high school mate...

The luxury American cruise ship steaming across the Gulf of Aden with hundreds of well-heeled tourists just might have been too much for Somali pirates to resist.

A government anti-corruption watchdog said Tuesday it is suing seven current and former Kenyan officials for a total of a quarter of a million dollars, saying they...

Pirates chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by...

Somalia is at a dangerous crossroads after nearly two decades of lawlessness, and urgently needs international help to stem an Islamic insurgency and rampant piracy off...

The Somali prime minister says he hopes Ethiopia won’t withdraw its troops from Somalia unless there is an international peacekeeping force to replace them.

Somali pirates hijacked a chemical tanker with dozens of Indian crew members Friday and a helicopter rescued three security guards who had jumped into the sea,...

“I put a lot of salt in the vegetables when I am cooking to limit my children from eating a lot.” These are the words of a woman trying to feed her...

Ethiopia says it will withdraw its troops from war-ravaged Somalia by the end of the year.

Somali pirates hijacked a chemical tanker with dozens of Indian crew members on board Friday, and three British security guards were rescued by helicopter after jumping...

Two diplomatic officials say Somali pirates have hijacked a chemical tanker with two British security guards and dozens of Indian crew members on board.

Two foreign journalists were kidnapped in northern Somalia on Wednesday while doing a story on the rampant piracy in the region, a police spokesman said.

Kenya is appealing for Shs 30 billion (US$390 million) to address the needs of communities affected by food and livelihood insecurity, health, internal displacement and...

Somali security forces and Islamic insurgents engaged in one of the fiercest gunbattles in recent weeks in the capital Friday, killing at least 17 people and wounding...

Kenya’s foreign minister says Somali pirates have collected more than $150 million in ransoms over the past year.

Africa has seen the unprecedented destruction of its wild fauna and flora as a result of poaching, fueled to a large degree by the profits that are gained by wildlife...

The U.N., African Union and Arab nations struggled to respond Thursday to a surge of pirate attacks, authorizing more sanctions and calling for international...

The African Union urged the United Nations on Thursday to quickly send peacekeepers to Somalia, as piracy off the east African nation’s sprawling coast spiraled...

The Kenya Wildlife Service says authorities in five African countries have seized about a ton of illegal ivory in a joint operation.

Hundreds of thousands of victims of a brutal 20-year insurgency in northern Uganda remain destitute and traumatized because the government has not created a...