This election is a crucial turning point that could ‘seal the deal’ or see Somalia slide back into chaos.

A car bomb has gone off in Somalia’s volatile capital Mogadishu, killing a former trade minister and wounding six people nearby.

Despite the fall of their key stronghold of Afgoye, al-Qaeda-linked Somali militants vowed to intensify the war against government and AU troops.

It’s been a bad week for Somalia. It would also be accurate to say it’s been a bad few decades..

Humanitarian crisis on an unimaginable scale looms in lawless state. Simon Tisdall reports.

Somalia’s insurgent group al Shabaab introduced sharia law in Baidoa on Tuesday, a day after taking the town that had been a government stronghold.

Somali lawmakers on Tuesday extended by five days the time period needed to elect a new president.

Parties to the peace talks aimed at ending the conflict in Somalia have reached a power-sharing deal in Djibouti that doubles the size of Parliament.

Leaders’ split could lead to the collapse of the transitional federal government.