Police in Somalia said Wednesday they were questioning a man accused of beheading four of his children more than three years after divorcing their mother.
MOGADISHU — An American citizen of Somali origin was one of the two suicide bombers behind a twin attack on a pro-government military base in Mogadishu, the Islamist Shebab movement said on Sunday.
Somali rebels are blocking men fleeing harsh drought and forcibly recruiting them, while women and children who escape alone risk attack and rape in crowded camps, witnesses and officials said.