Somalia has asked top UN official Nicholas Haysom to leave the country “as soon as possible” after accusing him of “interfering with the country’s internal affairs”.
Unidentified gunmen in Kenya have kidnapped an Italian aid worker, police in the African nation say.
At least 20 people have been killed by two suspected suicide bombings in the southern Somali city of Baidoa.
At least six people have been killed in a major explosion in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, according to police.
At least six people were killed in Somalia on Sunday in two separate car bomb attacks.
At least nine people were killed during a car bomb attack in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Saturday.
The US military says an air strike against Somali extremist group al-Shabaab killed 12 militants on Thursday.
Five football fans were killed and several others wounded on Thursday when a bomb exploded at a packed stadium in Barawe, southern Somalia.
At least 27 people have been killed in two explosions in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
Militant group al-Shabaab is extorting large sums of money and forcibly recruiting children from villages in Somalia.
