Somali politicians have voted for a new president despite explosions near a heavily fortified airport hangar.

There has hardly been a drop of rain in Hargududo in 18 months. Dried-up carcasses of goats, cows and donkeys litter the ground near the modest thatched huts in this small village in the Somali region of southeastern Ethiopia.

At least three civilians have been killed and a number of others wounded after a military camp belonging to African Union mission came under attack by Takfiri al-Shabab terrorists in central Somalia.

The United Nations food agency has warned that 20 million people in countries across the Horn of Africa are at risk of starvation this year due to delayed rains and subsequent extreme drought battering the region.

Somalia's parliament came under mortar fire on Monday.

Somali president and prime minister both reject an "illegal" oil deal signed between the energy minister and a US company.

At least 14 people are killed in the central Somali town of Beledweyne on Saturday after a suicide bomber blows himself up at a restaurant.

Somalia’s displacement camps are coming under intense pressure amid worsening drought.

Millions of people are facing hunger in the Horn of Africa as droughts recur, according to the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP).

After a two decade military presence in Africa the US has not only failed to combat extremists and terrorists, but has also been involved in coups and the overthrow of several governments.