Somalia's militant group Al-Shabaab has seized control of Dobley, a southern border town located between Somalia and Kenya, witnesses said.

The self-proclaimed leader of Somalia's Al-Shabaab militant has vowed that his group will intensify its war with Un-backed Somali government and African Union peacekeeping troops in the restive capital Mogadishu.

Several Hizbul Islam officials led by Sheikh Ahmed Mohammed Islam (Madobe) have reportedly crossed the border into neighbouring Kenya, escaping the wrath of Al-Shabaab who ousted them out of Somalia's southern region of Lower Jubba, sources said.

THE Immigration Department is today expected to commence the screening and interviewing of 22 Somali juveniles believed to be victims of an international syndicate in human trafficking.

Somalia's al-Shabaab insurgents have captured a key town close to the border with Kenya. The al Qaeda linked rebels are said to have driven out combatants of Hizbu-Islam, another Islamist group opposing the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG), to

The former president of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland General Adde Muse Hersi has Sunday said that some of the regions' troops joined the Somali pirates operating in the Indian Ocean and coast of Somalia.

More new residents around the neighborhoods near Warshadaha street in the Somali capital Mogadishu started displacing from their houses due to the fears of fresh fighting between the Islamist fighters and the transitional government troops backing by AMSIOM, witnesses said

The leader of Somalia's Hizbul Islam group, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweyshas plead with Al-Shabaab to stop escalating the fighting in the southern Somalia.

Tens of thousands of people have on Friday gathered to pray and celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Adha across the major towns in Somalia's Puntland state.

The transitional government troops have conducted operations in Hamar Weyne district in Mogadishu and captured more than 30 people charging they were creating insecurity activities there, officials told Shabelle radio on Sunday.

The Somali transitional federal government ministers have held meeting in the Somali capital Mogadishu and appointed a chairman for the high court of the TFG, officials said on Sunday.

The Islamist fighters of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen in southern Somalia have detained more people accusing of violating the orders of the Islamic administration there in southern Somalia, officials said on Monday.

Some of the national crew members of the Somali ships in Yemen have Monday said that the vessels are in the brink of destroying.

They routinely come under attack from insurgents and have already lost 80 of their colleagues, so the least you would expect is that the African Union soldiers in war-torn Somalia would be paid on time.