MOGADISHU, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations relief agency on Thursday called for immediate emergency assistance to support 45,000 people affected by flooding across Somalia.

MOGADISHU, May 10 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people were killed and several others displaced by flash flooding following a heavy downpour in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, on Friday night, a ...

The flooding has struck during one of the country's main rainy seasons, which typically runs from April to June. Rainfall in Somalia and the Ethiopian highlands, where the Shabelle and Jubba rivers ...

Somali authorities want Egyptian troops in the mission but not those from Ethiopia. However, relations between Ethiopia and Egypt have been strained in recent years over Ethiopia’s construction of a ...

a key tributary of the Nile River. Egypt claims the project will likely diminish its share of the water from the Nile. Al-Shabab militants have fought for more than 15 years to overthrow Somalia ...