An employee who was terminated at a Pelican Rapids agricultural plant and refused to leave the premises was arrested and taken to the Otter Tail County Detention Center on April 15. Niman Jowhar ...

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.

In Somalia, fighters loyal to the Islamic Courts have captured the town of Jowhar, one week after taking control of the capital Mogadishu. This comes on the heels of lawmakers approving a ...

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.

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 ...

Jowhar, is also the provincial capital of Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region, located 90 kilometers north of the capital, ... Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre condemned the attack.

The Prime Minister of Somalia, Hamza Abdi Barre, has strongly slammed today's car bomb attack at a hotel in Jowhar city, HirShabelle regional capital.

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.

A convoy in which three Somali ministers were travelling is attacked as fierce fighting erupts near the al-Shabab base of Jowhar, officials say.