Somalia's opposition supporters and security forces have clashed in Mogadishu for a second day ahead of a planned anti-government demonstration.

Gun battles erupted on Thursday, as armed groups loyal to rival politicians clashed. Residents said it was the worst fighting in years.

17 sailors have been held hostage for three weeks by Somali pirates demanding a $7 million ransom. Protests erupt in Karachi as families fear for the crew's safety.

Ex-Somali PM Khaire accuses government forces of attacking him before planned antigovernment protests in Mogadishu.

On the evening of April 26, the Egyptian merchant vessel Sward was hijacked by armed men a few miles off the Somali coast. It was steered towards an anchorage near the port of Garacad in Puntland, a semi-autonomous state in north-eastern Somalia.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan used a contentious House oversight hearing on Medicaid fraud allegations in Ohio on Wednesday to suggest that an Ohio Democratic state legislator of Somali descent may have helped set up companies accused of defrauding the federal government.

Ohio, home to the country’s second-largest Somali population, has a multibillion-dollar Somali fraud crisis similar to the scandal in Minnesota, members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform warned this week.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday went on another tirade against Somali immigrants, declaring during his Cabinet meeting that “they’re all crooks.”“The Somalians, what they’ve done to Minnesota, the Somalians,