The United States claims a single airstrike by its fighter jets killed 52 militants from the al-Shabaab Takfiri group in Somalia.

Ethiopia has signed a peace deal with the separatist Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), ending more than three decades of insurgency in the eastern Somali regional state.

The US claims that scores of militants were killed in Somalia last week in a “precision airstrike” that purportedly hit their targets.

As the political instability and crisis in the Persian Gulf grows, there are genuine fears that regional politics could have even more of a crippling impact on the countries in the Horn of Africa.

A car bomb kills at least 14 people and injures several others near a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

Eleven migrants who had been subjected to slavery and auctioned in Libya arrived home on Saturday after being repatriated by the Somali government and the UN refugee agency.

The US AFRICOM says an attack on a school has led to the death of a number of Somali civilians aged under 18.

A renewed bout of clashes between two of Ethiopia's largest ethnic groups has killed more than 20 people last week, the state-controlled broadcaster reports.

With a population of about 87 million, Ethiopia is made up of at least 80 different ethnic groups.

Local media identify the suspect in Edmonton attacks as Somali national Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, who was on a watch list for extremist views.