Niman Jowhar Abdi, 26, of St. Cloud has been charged with obstructing the legal process and trespassing. He attended an arraignment hearing on April 17 in Otter Tail County District Court.

Abdi Isac, a local resident, said by phone from Jowhar that the allied troops peacefully entered the city after the Islamist militants pulled out without a fight or firing a single shot.

A reporter for the French news agency, AFP, who is in Mogadishu, Ali Musa Abdi, describes to VOA the situation in Jowhar, 90 kilometers north of the capital.

Middle Shabelle governor Abdi Jiinow told the BBC Somali service that al-Shabab had now gathered its forces around Jowhar, 90km (55 miles) north of the capital, Mogadishu, in order to defend the town.

A powerful suicide bomb blast rocked Somalia’s town of Jowhar, in Hirshabele state, killing at least three people and wounding seven others. Senior regional administration officials were among ...

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Dr. Mohamed Abdi Ali (Dr. Gaalib), the Director of the Department of Religious Affairs at the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs in the Hirshabelle State Government, was shot and killed ...

Hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in Jowhar in the Middle Shabelle region of Somalia, have received relief items including food and non-food items to help them in the aftermath of ...

The spokesman of the Degodai Tribe in Somalia Honorable Abdi Mohamoud Aden "Abeey' and elder Adow Kadiye have similarly called the conference in Jowhar town as null and void, and are not satisfied ...

The blasts occurred in two separate locations - one near the National Theatre in Mogadishu, about a kilometre from the president's office, and another in a livestock market in Jowhar city.

Somali-based terrorist group al-Shabaab Thursday targeted the Jowhar city airport with mortars, a local official confirmed. Jowhar is the provincial capital of Middle Shabelle located 90 ...

Hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in Jowhar in the Middle Shabelle region of Somalia, have received relief items including food and non-food items to help them in the ...