A dispute over the electoral system and donor fatigue could unravel a decades-old state-building project, writes Omar S Mahmood.

Angry demonstrators protesting a sharp rise in fuel prices blocked Maka Al-Mukarrama Road in central Mogadishu on Tuesday.Motorcycle taxi drivers, locally known as bajaj drivers, led the protest, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A billboard displays an image of Aidarous al-Zubaidi, the leader of Yemen's Southern Transitional Council (STC), who, according to ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Residents of Somalia's capital are set to vote Thursday in a controversial local election that marks the country's first-ever one-person, one-vote poll since 1969. Analysts say it ...

Somali police launched a series of targeted anti-narcotics operations in the southern town of Dhobley and the capital, Mogadishu, officials said Friday, as part of a nationwide crackdown on the ...

Somali authorities have detained members of the Public Guards and hotel security personnel following a shooting incident that erupted at Hotel Dayax in the Waaberi district of Mogadishu, police ...

Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined buildings still line many streets, but the city's cacophony is now one of ...

Five people, plus four attackers, were killed in an attack at a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday, according to Somali police. The deadly siege at the Afrik hotel which left 10 other ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia has yet again witnessed a heightened presence of troops on Wednesday night is the latest sign of a potential crackdown on the opposition. The ...

Fighting erupted today in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, with al Shabaab militants against Somali government troops and African Union (AU) peacekeepers. So far, more than 22 people have been ...

Somali police late Wednesday confirmed the arrest at a hotel in Mogadishu of a senior advisor to the President of semi autonomous state of Puntland. The arrest comes after Puntland President Said Abdu ...