Somalia

Quake Aftershock of 6.5 Hits Indonesia, Minutes After the 8.7 Magnitude Earthquake

India has issued a tsunami alert to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and coastal regions of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh after strong tremors were felt in different cities including Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram.

Global food prices rise for the third consecutive month, according to the United Nations.

At least 10 die in explosion at newly reopened theatre in Somali capital.

British Youths from African communities could be radicalised as al-Qaida looks at Africa as a potential new front to build its strength

Fahkra Younus is just one among millions of women who still fall victims to such brutal attacks. Take a look at other victims who have survived such attacks.

Up to 1923 prisoners were executed in 63 countries around the world in 2011.

Judith Tebbutt, snatched by pirates at a luxury holiday safari resort in Kenya, freed after family pays ransom.

Police attributed the attack to the Somali Islamist group al-Shebab, but nobody has claimed responsibility.

US rapper vows to UN to donate one billion meals to starving African children over five years.

Radical Somali Islamist group combines forces with al-Qaida in sign that jihadist movement is spreading.

Younus Abdullah Mohammad pleads guilty to hate campaign over cartoon's 'defamation' of prophet.

Somali prime minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali pledges liberation of Enrico Levoli and 18 crew.

American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, were working for the Danish Deming Group when they were taken hostage by Somali pirates.

US military freed two hostages held captive in Somalia, during a night raid that killed at least nine pirates.

Canada's Africa Oil starts drilling test wells in Puntland region in hope of tapping four billion barrels.

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has led to economic surge in some parts of the country, with ransoms delivering development to the state, according to a report by Chatham House, the UK think-tank.

A NATO task force has identified and "neutralised" two Somali pirate ships off the coasts of Oman and Somalia, according to a statement on the NATO website.

Reporters Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson caught with Ogaden rebel group sentenced to 11 years.

A British soldier, who became an Islamic extremist, has been arrested over allegations of fraud and false misrepresentation after he collected donations in the name of foreign war victims.

Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab has taken its war against the Somali government and Kenyan troops to the next level by setting up a Twitter account.

Italy is the most corrupt country in the eurozone, along with Greece, and has scored less than Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Ghana in the 2011 Corruption Perception Index, compiled by German-based NGO Transparency International.

Israel has offered to help Kenya secure its borders in a bid to fight off the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, which has caused havoc in the region, the Kenyan Prime Minister's office says.

The Prime Minister, in his speech to the Lord Mayor of London's banquet, said the UK had limited goals in the pro-democracy campaign in Libya.

A man who confessed to murdering Ugandan gay activist David Kato has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Former South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, has hinted that that Africa's right to self-determination is still threatened by a "new imperialism", illustrated by the Nato Libyan operation.

Somalia's al Shabaab rebels vowed on Thursday to fight Kenya after its troops entered the Horn of Africa nation and called on sympathisers to carry out major attacks in east Africa's biggest economy.

British and US special forces have seized 11 Somali Pirates in a stormed raid on a hijacked Italian cargo ship off the coast of the Horn of Africa

Al-Shabab Militants detonated a car bomb in Somalia Tuesday in front of the education ministry in Mogadishu, killing at least 70 people and wounding dozens, according to officials, killing said. Among the dead were students and parents.

The news that Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed in Yemen, courtesy of a U.S. drone attack, must surely round off a pretty poor week in an even worse year for the followers of Al-Qaeda.