Drivers of tuk‑tuk taxis in Somalia’s capital are abandoning their livelihoods as fuel prices surge, pushed up by disruptions ...

The UK ambassador to the Federal Republic of Somalia, Charles King, offers a peek inside the day-to-day realities at ...

Shabaab, Al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, highlighted last year’s brazen assault on Mogadishu’s Godka Jilacow prison, ...

A fuel shortage and a surge in petrol prices in Mogadishu are forcing tuk-tuk drivers in Somalia’s capital to park their ...

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Somalia's South West state said on Tuesday it was suspending all cooperation and relations with the government in Mogadishu, the latest sign of strain in the Horn of ...

Federal officials say they are initiating a transition process to replace the administration in the southwest state which has been up in arms against this prospect.

Hundreds of Somali spectators cheered as they watched two teams of young women play football in a Mogadishu stadium -- an ...

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That warm February morning felt so perfect that Abdirisack Noriftin, a 22-year-old movie buff whose friends nicknamed him "American," said he imagined himself in the kind of sandy, sexy Hollywood ...

A mother and her son play in the sea at Liido Beach in Mogadishu, Somalia. Despite decades of conflict and ongoing security threats, some Somalis are carving out a middle-class lifestyle in the Somali ...