The majority of those displaced are heading to villages in other parts of Kismayo district as well as villages in the neighbouring Jilib and Jamame districts. Some are also moving towards Somalia's ...

That compares with 14,000 people who left Kismayo throughout the whole of September,” explained Andy Needham, spokesperson for the UNHCR in Nairobi. He has been monitoring the situation of the ...

Somalia's Islamist militia rulers in the southern port of Kismayo have appointed a district administration for the strategic town, Radio Garowe reported Saturday. A seven-member administration was ...

Muhammad Dahir Ilmi, a Marehan, was appointed the new Kismayo district commissioner, and Colonel Ali Ilmi Moge, an Ogadeni, the new police chief, Hashi said. Kismayo has been described as one of ...

KISMAYO, Somalia – Somalia’s Hormuud Salaam Foundation on Tuesday officially inaugurated a newly constructed asphalt road in Kismayo’s Calanleey district, a key infrastructure project aimed at ...

Witnesses in Somalia say at least 20 people have been killed and 50 wounded as two Islamist militant groups battle for control of the port city of Kismayo. Hundreds of families fled the southern ...

Kismayo city was abandoned by Islamist fighters ... told Reuters news agency that the explosion had been caused by a bomb planted in a district administration office building.

African Union forces launch a pre-dawn beach assault in an attempt to seize the Somali port of Kismayo, the last major Islamist militant stronghold.