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Al-Shabaab’s religious police are imposing a reign of terror — as well as crew cuts and bushy beards — on Somalia’s youth.
Islamist insurgents and fighters from Somalia’s government forces mingle peacefully at a weapons market, but both sides are stocking up.
Somali pirates said on Friday they had freed a Saudi-owned supertanker, whose capture nearly two months ago wreaked panic in international shipping.
Somali refugees in Kenya are losing hope of ever returning to their home where rival groups are again battling for control.
Stray bullets and molesters are only some of the dangers 11-year-old Abdi Mohamed Abdusamad faces when he chooses a place to sleep on the streets of Mogadishu. War and poverty…
After a months-long delay, the latest Somali peace conference is due to start in Mogadishu on Sunday but hopes of a breakthrough remain low amid raging violence and a boycott by…
The Somali president has warned that ”terrorists” were threatening his shattered country’s security and slammed international donors for failing to help as promised, in an…
Distorted woofers blare out Britney Spears tracks, noisy hawkers are back and deafening gunfire is frequent: the familiar chaos has made a swift return after Mogadishu’s brief…
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Monday arrived in the capital, Mogadishu, for the first time since he was elected in 2004 while his Ethiopia-backed government struggles…
Somalia’s weak government and the powerful Islamists on Thursday traded barbs, escalating fears of a full-scale war, a day after peace talks aimed at easing tension in the…
Negotiators scrambled on Tuesday to salvage peace talks aimed at averting all-out war between Somalia’s powerful Islamists and its weak government as the deeply divided sides…
Somalia’s powerful Islamist movement on Monday accused neighboring Ethiopia of ”declaring war” on them, as they awaited the delayed resumption of peace talks in Sudan with the…
Peace talks aimed at averting all-out war between Somalia’s powerful Islamists and a weak government failed to start as scheduled on Monday, amid an apparent rift in the…
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi on Thursday refused to resign despite a mass exodus of Cabinet ministers and mounting criticism over the deployment of Ethiopian troops to…
Six more Somali government ministers resigned on Tuesday citing the 18-month-old administration’s "unpopularity" officials said. The resignations of Culture Minister Abdi Hashi…
An unknown gunman shot and killed Somalia’s constitutional and federal affairs minister in the provincial town of Baidoa on Friday, just a day after the Somali government was…
The supreme leader of Somalia’s increasingly powerful Islamist movement said on Tuesday that easing a 14-year-old United Nations arms embargo on the lawless nation would be a…
After a week-long lull in fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, war-weary residents cautiously ventured out on Sunday onto the city streets, amid further sabre-rattling by…
Islamists holding much of lawless Somali capital Mogadishu declared war on ”infidels” on Wednesday, as a battered United States-backed warlord alliance they have been fighting…
Heavily armed Islamic gunmen and fighters loyal to a United States-backed warlord alliance faced each other in a tense stand-off in Somalia on Tuesday after Muslim militia…
