MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia said on Thursday it had pulled federal troops out of the southwestern Lower Juba region, after clashes with local forces from Jubbaland state which has broken off ...

When Somalia gained Independence ... merger of three regions -- Lower Juba, Middle Juba and Gado regions -- as an interim administration later to become a state. Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam alias ...

Communities in southern Somalia are pushing to make the autonomous region known as Jubaland a semi-autonomous state that would ... combat al-Shabab militants. Juba-based negotiator Farhan Abdi ...

JILIB, Somalia-The Militant group al-Shabaab has paraded four soldiers it said they have defected from Jubbaland state forces in its stronghold Jilib town in Middle Juba region on Thursday, Garowe ...

Al-Shabab has suffered defeats from the South West State of Somalia down to the Juba River Valley and has sought to reset and counter-attack in those areas. However, in central Somalia ...

Nairobi — Large areas of the Juba Valley in southern Somalia have been flooded, with thousand of hectares of farmland inundated by rains, according to sources in the affected region. The ...