Nairobi/Geneva  - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Wednesday it would dramatically scale up relief operations in Somalia as an escalating insurgency, drought and rising food

Nairobi/Mogadishu  - Unknown armed Somali groups have shot dead four Kenyan soldiers near the border between the two East African nations, Somali website Shabelle reported.

Nairobi/Mogadishu - On a beach in Bosaso, North-East Somalia, near the tip of the Horn of Africa, dozens of Somali and Ethiopian refugees perch on rocks or squat in the sand, peering across the Gu

Mogadishu  - At least four African Union peacekeepers were seriously injured and possibly killed in Mogadishu Friday when a roadside bomb blew up the truck they were travelling in, witnesses said.

"It was huge blast. The truck was totally destroyed - it was scattered into pieces," Ibrahim Dahir Salad, a tailor who witnessed the incident, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Salad said he saw four soldiers being carried away from the convoy, which was comprised of mainly Ugandan soldiers.

AU spokesman Major Bariyge Bahuko would only confirm the attack took place, saying that further details would be released at a Saturday press conference.