Somalia News

In the West, people tend not to call their friends and colleagues nicknames that pick on negative physical traits.

Addis Ababa, 6 March 2014 - The Ethiopian International Institute for Peace and Development has established a working relationship with the Mogadishu-based Heritage Institute for Policy Studies.

An expected drive to purge Islamist rebels from southern Somalia risks pushing them north into an area at the tip of the Horn of Africa better known for its coastal pirates than al Shabaab insurgents.

The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday extended a partial suspension of the decades-old arms embargo on Somalia for eight months while highlighting concerns about the possible diversion of weapons to al Qaeda-linked militants.

The federal government is preparing to launch a national counter-radicalization program in response to the growing number of troubled Canadians who are being lured into the world of extremist violence promoted by Al-Qaeda.

Somali militant group al-Shabab says it has executed three men who it accused of spying for U.S. or Somali government intelligence agencies.

We have read recently that Somalia has a National Army , but is that really the case? Upon closer scrutiny one realises that Somalia has parallel armies - 3 of them - which exist independent of each other in different parts of this increasingly splintered.

THE THINGS THAT SHE WENT THROUGH AND HER EXCITEMENT TODAY. Like any mom - Sadiya would've loved to hug her kids every day.

Children sing a song of welcome at a primary school in Dadaab, northeastern Kenya, October 9, 2013.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 3, 2014/African Press Organization / The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, is closely monitoring developments in Baidoa, including the outcome of today's conference, and has taken note of the Federal Government's response.

Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia walk along a road during an advance on the central Somali town of Buur Hakaba, in this handout photograph taken and provided by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team on February 27, 2013.

An explosion with profound consequences to soldiers from the Federal government of Somalia occurred at a road in-between Arafat and Mahad Alle carwash in the Yaaqshiid district of Banaadir region.

Radio Shabelle in Mogadishu has received reports that the district commissioner of Marka of the Somali government's regional administration Lower Shabelle, Mohamed Osman Yariisow stated the Somali government forces removed the roadblocks and illegal checkpoints used for accumulating money of locals from inbetween Marko and the KM50 territory in ... (more)

While visiting a Somali refugee camp in Kenya, Mohamed Farah was struck by a young man who spends each day just waiting for it to end.

Social conflict and political violence in Northern Somalia "Somaliland" is a complex subject, and it will be useful to note a few trends in its recent history.

Somali Army soldiers patrolling a street in the capital Mogadishu on Feb. 23, 2014.

This is a guest post by Alex Dick-Godfrey, program coordinator, Studies administration for the Council on Foreign Relations Studies program.

Since the devastative and volcanic civil wars erupted in Somalia, the dark-age is reborn in 1977, were rivers of youths' blood spilled, massacres occurred in many cities, the civilisation of Somala is doomed and yet people are still asking themselves the cause and the casualties.

Somali policemen carry a dead body after a suicide bomber blew himself up near a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014.

At least eight people were killed when a car bomb exploded near the national security headquarters in Somalia's capital, officials and a Reuters witness said on Thursday.