The UN Security Council on Friday gave the green light to a new African Union force in Somalia that is meant to take on the Islamist armed group Al-Shabaab, with the soldiers due to deploy in January.

In addition to the ongoing tensions of the Somali Civil War, which has been going on since the late 1980s, Somalia is still recovering from the country's most severe drought in four decades ...

The ousting of Mohamed Siad Barre as Somalia’s president in 1991 sparked a decades-long civil war between rival clan warlords. Over the years, the UN and African Union (AU) have played key roles ...

Expressing a renewed desire to return to their homeland, some Syrian refugees residing Somalia's capital ... Since the Syrian civil war broke out more than a decade ago, Syrians have fled to ...

Scenes from the Somalia You Don’t See on the News beyond ... conjuring up clichés of the worst of Africa. Famine, civil war, Kalashnikovs, despots… We hear the word Mogadishu and immediately ...

Baxsan’s tumultuous six-decade journey as a singer was irrevocably tied to Somalia’s national identity and cultural history. The composer, performer and poet was an artistic pioneer of lasting ...