Fighters in Somalia shot dead three Syrian doctors and their three Somali colleagues Wednesday as they traveled to a hospital outside the capital Mogadishu, an Agence France Presse reporter said.

Their bullet-riddled bodies were carried into Mogadishu's Medina hospital after the attack on road leading from the capital to Afgoye, a town some 30 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of the capital.

Training of Somali soldiers by the EU will be shifted from Uganda to Somalia early next year, with an improvement in the security climate there, the EU said in a statement Tuesday.

The EU Training Mission in Somalia (EUTM Somalia), launched in early 2010, has so far trained 3,600 Somali troops, mainly at a camp in Bihanga, 250 kilometers (155 miles) west of the Ugandan capital Kampala where the EUTM headquarters is located.

Somalia's president named a political newcomer as prime minister Thursday, days after his predecessor was ousted amid bitter infighting in the war-torn nation.

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said he had appointed Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, an economist who has worked with several international organizations and banks.

Gunmen killed eight Kenyans including five policemen Tuesday in an ambush in the troubled northeast border region close to war-torn Somalia, police said.

Insurgents sprayed a police patrol with gunfire near the border town of Liboi, also leaving some officers badly wounded, in the latest in a string of attacks in the restive region.

A Somali court on Monday sentenced to jail a woman who said she was raped and two journalists who broadcast her story, saying they were guilty of defamation and insulting state institutions.

The 19-year old woman, who is also a journalist, was handed a suspended six-month jail sentence for defamation, during which time she will be confined to her home, said Judge Hashi Elmai Nur.

A car bomb exploded Friday killing its driver outside the office of Somalia's prime minister in the capital Mogadishu, an Agence France Presse reporter said.

According to lawmaker Abdullahi Musa, a fellow MP was killed in the car blast, the latest in a string of attacks in Mogadishu, many of them claimed by al-Qaida-linked Shebab insurgents.

Four Sudanese were killed on Thursday in an exchange of fire with Egyptian border guards, security officials said, adding that 10 more were wounded.

Clashes erupted between the illegal migrants and Egyptian military forces along the Egypt-Sudan border, the officials said, and the wounded were transferred to Aswan hospital.

At least eight people were killed Thursday when a suicide car bomber rammed a convoy in Somalia's northern port of Bossasso, a region harboring Al-Qaida-linked Shebab insurgents where tensions are high ahead of elections in January.

"There was a car bomb attack targeting a vehicle of the security forces, he rammed the convoy and then exploded," Abdullahi Said, a police officer in the port town, told AFP.

Somali lawmakers voted to oust the prime minister Monday amid furious power struggles among top leaders that could undermine efforts to rebuild the war-torn nation and tackle Islamist insurgents.

Abdi Farah Shirdon, prime minister of the Horn of Africa nation for just over a year, lost the confidence vote in parliament after he resisted President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's demand that he resign.

More than 100,000 people are struggling in Somalia's cyclone-hit northeastern Puntland region, aid agencies warned Friday, saying floodwaters had wiped out the livestock two-thirds of the people survive on.

A joint statement by 12 agencies -- including Somali organisations as well as international ones such as CARE International, Oxfam, Save the Children, Refugees International and World Vision -- said that people are "in dire need of food, clean drinking water and shelter".