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heavy fighting broke out Friday near Somalia’s border with Kenya, as al-Shabab fighters attacked a town controlled by forces loyal to Somalia’s transitional government. The militant Islamist group carried out the attack on the southern Somali town of Dhobley, five kilometers from the border with Kenya.  Witnesses say forces loyal to the government later regained control of the town. Six... 

The most prominent of six Kenyan men accused of masterminding the country’s infamous 2007-08 post-election violence took the stand Thursday in pre-trial hearings at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. Uhuru Kenyatta is the son of Kenya’s post-independence founding father Jomo Kenyatta, and currently the country’s deputy prime minister and its finance minister. Along... 

  The new report by the Independent Expert on Somalia highlights the need for the Human Rights Council to encourage UN member states and key human rights entities such as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to step up its engagement on human rights in Somalia. Civilians continue to bear the brunt of the fighting in Somalia, notablyduring a series of offensives launched...