In a landmark move to address one of the most persistent threats to its security, Somalia has launched its first-ever National Counter-IED Strategy, praised by the United Nations as an “important step ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Stakeholders in Somalia's security sector have committed to ending the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by al-Shabab militants to terrorize people in the horn of Africa ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Following increased Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attacks Amisom troops are being trained on how to detect the device that recently claimed lives of 7 Kenya Defense Force (KDF ...

Mogadishu — Somalia's Ministers of Defence and Internal Security on Monday took part in a high-level meeting to endorse the country's new National Counter-IED (Improvised Explosive Devices) Strategy, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Bomb attacks in Nigeria, Kenya and Somalia rose in 2011 as al-Qaida-affiliated terror groups used more sophisticated devices to kill more ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted Thursday to prevent the sale or shipment to Somalia of components of improvised explosive devices if there is “significant risk” they may be used ...

UNITED NATIONSUNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted Thursday to prevent the sale or shipment to Somalia of components of improvised explosive devices if there is “significant risk” they may ...