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UN Sec General, Antonio Guterres, left talks to Somali family through a translator, middle, in a refugee camp in Mogadishu Tuesday April 11, 2023. U.N Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed for “massive international support” for Somalia as he visited the East African country that is facing the worst drought in decades. (AP Photo)

U.N. chief calls for massive international support to Somalia

By Omar Faruk - Associated Press

People arrive at a displacement camp on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia, Sept. 21, 2022, amid a drought. A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year: Report

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Somalia security carry away the dead body of someone who was in killed in clash between attackers and soldiers at the Banadir regional administration in Mogadishu, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. Somalia's government says five civilians were killed when al-Qaida-linked extremists stormed a regional government office in the capital on Sunday. The founder of the Aamin ambulance service, Abdulkadir Adan, told The Associated Press his team collected 16 wounded people from the scene.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Extremists storm govt. office in Somalia’s capital; 5 dead

By Omar Faruk - Associated Press

FILE - The Treasury Building is viewed in Washington, May 4, 2021. The Treasury Department has announced sanctions against a weapons trafficking network affiliated with the Islamic State group in Somalia and the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which are accused of carrying out terrorist acts on civilians. The move to freeze and block transactions with U.S. entities comes after two car bombings at a busy junction in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, killed more than 120 people last week. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Treasury sanctions IS-Somalia weapons traffickers, al-Shabab

By Fatima Hussein & Cara Anna - Associated Press

People walk amidst destruction at the scene, a day after a double car bomb attack at a busy junction in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. Somalia's president says multiple people were killed in Saturday's attacks and the toll could rise in the country's deadliest attack since a truck bombing at the same spot five years ago killed more than 500. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somalia’s president vows to keep fighting after more than 100 killed in twin explosions in Mogadishu

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, at the United Nations Headquarters. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Live updates: U.N. General Assembly

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

People remove damaged furniture from the destroyed Hayat Hotel, days after a deadly siege by al-Shabab extremists, in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. The siege was the longest such attack in the country's history taking more than 30 hours for security forces to subdue the extremists, with more than 20 people killed. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

After Somalia hotel siege, a vow to tackle al-Shabab ‘snake’

By Omar Faruk - Associated Press

Hundreds of newly trained al Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 km south of Mogadishu, in Somalia, Feb. 17, 2011. The al Shabab extremist group has exploited Ethiopia's internal turmoil to cross the border from neighboring Somalia in unprecedented attacks in July 2022 that a top U.S. military commander has warned could continue. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

U.S. strike kills 14 militants in Somalia, signals greater involvement in region

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Armed al-Shabab fighters ride on pickup trucks as they prepare to travel into the city, just outside the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, Dec. 8, 2008. The al-Shabab extremist group has exploited Ethiopia's internal turmoil to cross the border from neighboring Somalia in unprecedented attacks in July 2022 that a top U.S. military commander has warned could continue. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

In a first, Somalia-based al-Shabab is attacking in Ethiopia

By Omar Faruk - Associated Press

Alabama Republican Senate candidate Katie Britt speaks to a GOP club meeting on March 1, 2022, in Opelika, Ala., on May 16, 2022. Alabama’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby is a bitter high-dollar fight between three frontrunners battling for a spot in an anticipated runoff. U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks who won _ and then lost _ former President Donald Trump’s backing in the race faces Katie Boyd Britt, the former leader of Business Council of Alabama and Shelby’s former chief of staff and Mike Durant, the owner of an aerospace company but best known as the helicopter pilot shot down and captured in in the events that inspired “Black Hawk Down.” (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

GOP primary race for Alabama Senate seat turns bitter

By Kim Chandler - Associated Press

People look at destroyed shops in Mogadishu's Lido beach, Somalia, Saturday, April, 23, 2022, after a bomb blast by Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels hit a popular seaside restaurant killing at least six people. Ambulance service officials say the explosion occurred Friday evening when many patrons gathered for an Iftar meal to break the Ramadan fast. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) ** FILE **

Reversing Trump, Biden acts to deploy U.S. troops to Somalia

Associated Press

Security forces and rescue workers search for bodies at the scene of a blast in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. Witnesses say a large explosion has occurred in a busy part of Somalia's capital during the morning rush hour. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Large explosion outside Mogadishu airport; at least 8 killed

By Hassan Barise - Associated Press

Somalia says it has resumed diplomatic ties with Kenya

By HASSAN BARISE - Associated Press

Suspected extremist in Kenya’s east blow up truck killing 2

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Hundreds of thousands of Somalis at the Dadaab camp entered a voluntary repatriation program in 2017 and 2018, but some born and raised there know no other home. (Associated Press)

Kenya move to shutter refugee camps puts Somalis at risk

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

At least 7 killed in suicide bombing in Somalia’s capital

By HASSAN BARISE - Associated Press

A Somali family with their belongings wait as civilians flee following gunfire between factions within Somalia's security forces near KM4 in Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday April 27, 2021. Soldiers angry over the president’s extended stay in power have taken up key positions across Somalia’s tense capital on Monday, but there is none of the gunfire that shattered the previous night in Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh).

Somalia’s president drops bid for extended term after chaos

By HASSAN BARISE - Associated Press

A man walks past a position of military forces supporting anti-government opposition groups in Mogadishu, Somalia Monday, April 26, 2021. Soldiers angry over the president's extended stay in power took up key positions across Somalia's capital on Monday, but there was none of the gunfire that shattered the previous night in Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somalia’s unrest continues over president’s stay in power

By HASSAN BARISE - Associated Press

A soldier supporting anti-government opposition groups carries a rocket-propelled grenade launcher on a street in the Fagah area of Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, April 25, 2021. Gunfire was exchanged Sunday between government forces loyal to President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who signed into law on April 14 a two year extension of his mandate and that of his government, and other sections of the military opposed to the move and sympathetic to former presidents Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Gunfire erupts in Somali capital amid president’s standoff

By HASSAN BARISE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, May 25, 2019, file photo, Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed arrives for the swearing-in ceremony of Cyril Ramaphosa at Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria, South Africa. Somalia's parliament on Monday, April 12, 2021 voted to effectively extend the mandate of the president and federal government by two years in an attempt to end a political crisis after national elections were delayed in early February. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Somalia’s president OKs mandate extension, alarming US, EU

By HASSAN BARISE - Associated Press