The BBC’s Africa Eye embeds with Puntland forces in Somalia’s northeastern Al-Miskaad mountains as they fight Islamic State (IS) militants. Nearly a decade after its defeat in the Middle East, IS has ...

In Hargeisa, crowds took to the streets to celebrate, many carrying the flag of the breakaway state Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 and has pushed for international recognition ...

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says students will now be taught Swahili along with Arabic, English and Somali [File: Olivier Douliery/AFP] Somalia will begin preparations to boost teaching of ...

Somalia became a key part of IS's global network after fighters were driven out of strongholds in Syria and Iraq.

The Somali army has taken control of an area in southern Somalia used as a hideout for the Al-Shabaab terror group during an ...

FILE - African Union peacekeepers from Uganda provide security as Somali lawmakers arrive to cast their vote in the presidential election, at the Halane military camp in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, May ...

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

The number of people in Somalia experiencing crisis-levels of food insecurity has nearly doubled in the past year to 6.5 million people, UN-backed experts have warned.

Africa's regional governance bodies on Saturday rejected Israel's recognition of Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent nation, a day earlier. Somaliland, a territory of more than ...

Somalia is a hidden gem shining like a diamond. The Kenya Center for the Jamaica-based Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center—Eastern Africa is championing resilience, academic ...

The commander of the African Union stabilization mission in Somalia, Sam Kavuma, visited the town of Mubarak to assess the combat readiness of joint forces following the recent expulsion of Islamist ...