The election pits Muse Bihi Abdi, the current president, against Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, better known as Irro, who ...

Somalia was torn apart by civil war 30 years ago. The extent of its recovery is a minor miracle that Omar Mahmood, a senior ...

However, since establishing the Federal Government of Somalia in 2012, it has been recovering. For Mogadishu, this means that ...

Clans fought against each other in the Somali civil war that started after the overthrow of long-time ruler Siad Barre in 1991 and the worst of the fighting continued until 2001. Sometimes the ...

But true integrated practice has been slow to evolve in Somalia. Civil society actors - both international and national - often adopt the language of conflict sensitivity and "do no harm", yet ...

Apart from anti-piracy initiatives in the Gulf of Aden and the US focus on the war on terror, international players watched Somalia with a certain detachment. Turkey saw an opportunity to benefit ...

Police in Somalia say a suicide bomber killed at least seven people Thursday when he detonated an explosives-laden vest in front of a crowded restaurant in the capital, Mogadishu. Somali police ...

Somalia is one of the poorest countries on the planet, enduring decades of civil war, a bloody insurgency by the Al-Qaeda ...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Thursday he had "no interest in getting involved in a war" as tensions mount over his deal with a breakaway Somali region. In January, land-locked ...

Black Hawk Down is based on the acclaimed 1999 non-fiction novel by Mark Bowden, which chronicled a key incident within the Somali Civil War. After U.S. President Bill Clinton dispatched the ...