KISMAYU, Somalia (Keydmedia)- Al-Shabab militants-affiliated with Al Qaeda have on Sunday began, setting up new defensive positions, including digging trenches and placing snipers atop tall buildings of Somalia’s southern port town of Kismayu after changing its name, Keydmedia reports.

KISMAYU, Somalia (Keydmedia) — Heavy fighting broke out in Somalia’s Qansah-Dheere town on Sunday after Al shabab insurgents attacked TFG and Ethiopian military positions following what the locals said was the fiercest one for weeks, because of militants’ mortars, Keydmedia reports.

KISMAYU, Somalia (Keydmedia) – Somalia’s Islamist militants linked with Al Qaeda have on Sunday mounted heavy attacks against Ahlu Sunna Waljama’a (ASWJ) and Somali government troops in Gedo region, south western Somalia, Keydmedia reports.

NAIROBI, Kenya (Keydmedia) — Hundreds of Kenyan youth who have trained with al-Qaida-linked militants in neighboring Somalia have returned home and now pose a major security threat to this East African nation, a top police official said Friday.

Mombasa, Kenya (Keydmedia)— A judge in Kenya has heard a Belgian and a Tunisian plead guilty to charges of being in the country illegally after the pair were arrested near the border with Somalia.

UNITED NATIONS (Keydmedia) — UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Thursday led international outrage at the growing number of journalists killed in the line of duty amid widespread calls for greater protection for reporters.

GALKA’YO, Somalia (Keydmedia)-Unidentified gunmen have shot to death on Wednesday evening a journalist in Somalia’s central fragile town of Galka’yo, the provincial capital of Mugud state, making it the fifth journalist to be killed in Somalia this year, Keydmedia reports.

Nairobi (Keydmedia) - BOMB attacks in Somalia claimed by Islamist rebels have killed at least eight people including two politicians as the international community warned that "spoilers" threaten the fragile progress in the war-torn nation.

BELEDWEYNE, Somalia (Keydmedia) - At least 18 people were confirmed to have been killed and many others injured in a fierce fighting between Allied forces from Somalia and Ethiopia and Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaab group in Somalia, Keydmedia reports.

AFMADOW, Somalia (Keydmedia) - Reports reaching the news desk of Keydmedia from the rebel-held town of Afmadow said that heavily armed Somali and Kenya forces put the town under siege, a military move is to seize the city from Al-Shabaab who are in control.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Keydmedia)- A crackdown by the security forces under the control of somali goverment at Bakaaro marketplace on Monday saw the demolition of shops along the road, this operation disrupted normal business operations in the market, Keydmedia reports.

KISMAYU, Somalia (Keydmedia)- An independent radio station in somalia’s southwestern region of Gedo was on monday taken off air and its equipment was also confiscated by Islamist rebels, station staff said.