East African defense and security chiefs met this week for the 35th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of Defence ...

The leaders of Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya have agreed on a joint "search and destroy" military campaign against the Somali al-Shabab Islamic militant group that has carried out attacks in ...

The Republic of Djibouti is deploying more troops to Somalia, with the team set to join the contigent fighting the Al-shabaab militants as the international community continues to help in ...

Somalia's Defence Minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi held talks on Wednesday in Mogadishu with his Djiboutian counterpart, Hassan Omar Mohamed, focusing on strengthening bilateral cooperation in security and ...

Djibouti's Defence Minister Hassan Omar Mohamed arrived in the Somali capital on Tuesday to attend a key regional security meeting, Somali officials said.The minister was formally received at Aden ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Simmering tensions between Nairobi and Mogadishu played a major role in the outcome of the Intergovernmental Authority Development (IGAD) summit which concluded on Friday. Sudan was ...

Mogadishu, Aug. 31 (BNA): Abdisalam Abdi Ali, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Federal Government of Somalia, held a meeting with Ambassador Abdulqadir Hussein Omar, ...

LOYADO, Djibouti, November 20 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency on Tuesday began the final phase of its voluntary repatriation programme to help some 1,800 refugees return home to Somaliland from ...

* Somali government wants mission strengthened * Visit comes ahead of U.N. General Assembly meeting * Djibouti says its peacekeepers ready for Somalia (Updates with details, background, previously ...

Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, commonly known as IOG, has been the president of Djibouti since 1999. He succeeded the country’s first ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Djibouti has forcibly sent 40 asylum seekers from Somalia back to the Somali capital Mogadishu, the United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday. A Dutch naval ship, the ...