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Forty-nine migrants, mostly from Ethiopia and Somalia, are killed and 140 are missing after their boat capsizes off the coast of Yemen.
2024-06-10

Djibouti grounds all flights at a US military base in the country after two accidents in two days. The base is used for counterterror operations in Yemen and Somalia.
2018-04-4

Stephen O'Brien, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reports that the world is experiencing its most severe humanitarian crisis since World War II, with over 20 million people suffering from severe lack of food security in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Northeast Nigeria.
2017-03-10

Transparency International releases the 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index, declaring North Korea and Somalia the most corrupt nations in the world, and New Zealand the least corrupt.
2011-12-4

Six foreigners including two Britons and an American are jailed for lengthy terms in Somalia after the seizure of a plane containing $3.6 million in ransom for pirates.
2011-06-19

Security forces in Somalia seize two planes carrying ransom money for pirates, and detain six foreigners.
2011-05-24

Somali pirates seize a Thai-flagged ship off the coast of Somalia.
2010-12-26

The United Nations says pirates off the coast of Somalia are "outperforming" an international effort to stop them.
2010-11-10

The United Nations says child soldiers continue to be recruited to fight and engage in piracy in Somalia.
2010-11-4

Somali pirates hijack a South Korean owned Kenyan registered fishing boat with 43 crew aboard.
2010-10-17