Landlocked Ethiopia wants a port, any port. Somaliland has a coastline and wants someone to recognise the self-governing territory as a fully-fledged country. So a deal was made that could redraw the map. But everyone else objects
The militant group is supposed to be on the back foot, but it retains the capacity to execute deadly raids in the capital city
Heavily armed South Sudanese troops and police guarded key government institutions in the capital of Juba after the president suspended his Cabinet.
The UN has voiced fears about a new media law in Somalia only days after experts sounded the alarm over corruption in the country’s new government.
Somalia’s president has offered an amnesty to young pirates in a bid to end attacks off the coast as he seeks to rebuild the war-torn country.
The Mail & Guardian takes a look at the continent’s new and not-so-new leaders who were elected into office this year.
Somalia’s new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has survived an assassination bid after bomb blasts – claimed by al-Shabab – rocked a Mogadishu hotel.
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is Somalia’s new president after the 56-year-old university lecturer got the majority of votes in a second round of elections.