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

Somali immigrants in the U.S. haven’t just fled violence—they’ve fled climate catastrophes that the U.S. has helped create.

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

EDITORIAL | Somalia has this week clarified its neutrality on the simmering dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt over the $4.8 billion mega hydro dam project on River Nile that Addis Ababa is putting up ...

Lieutenant General Odowaa Yusuf Rage, Chief of the Somali Armed Forces, acknowledged before parliament last November that ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia has put a number of strategies that would help secure the country in the long term, it emerged, just months before African Union Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS] ...

January 15, 2026: The Somali military recently over a number of M48 and M60 tanks. The military took possession of the tanks at dockside. Turkey also has some of its Mi16 aircraft stationed in Somalia ...

BOSSASO, Somalia Sept 14 (UNHCR) - Civil war was raging in Somalia when Fatima Mohamed, then just 12 years old, and her older sister fled Mogadishu and travelled north to safety in Yemen. The two ...

BOSSASO, Somalia (UNHCR) - It's a lonely crusade Dr Abdinasir Mohamoud Abubakar has chosen for himself. Educated in Canada and the United States, he returned to his native Somalia to fight the uphill ...

For east African neighbours Kenya and Somalia, the effects of climate change are worlds apart, with one country suffering drought and the other deadly flooding. On the outskirts of Baidoa, southern ...

TikTok doesn’t just reflect clannism, it actively amplifies it In a recent research project I undertook, I discovered that TikTok is amplifying clannism and reshaping Somali identity politics by ...