MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Hooded soldiers carrying sniper rifles have unleashed a sweeping crackdown across Mogadishu in a hunt for militants and weapons after the country’s al-Qaida-linked militants ...

Somali minister tells Al Jazeera Israeli base plans in Somaliland risk dragging Somalia into ‘external confrontations’.

Somalia's parliament has backed constitutional changes that could extend the president's term in office by a year and push ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Police in Somalia ...

The new constitution extends the presidential term from the current four years to five years. It also stipulates that the ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali traders are now directing their shipments to ports at least 500 km (300 miles) away from Mogadishu to bypass what they say is excessive taxation and inefficiency by the ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - They get death threats, they need armed escorts and they never take the same route twice - Somali journalists reporting on events in their largely lawless country have to take ...

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, ...

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 ...

Amid reports of a fresh exodus from war-ravaged Mogadishu this week, the number of uprooted Somalis arriving this year in the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp complex in north-eastern Kenya has now ...