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As Western countries curtail support, the fate of one the world’s oldest state-building projects hangs in the balance. Three ...
The standoff continues between the government of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland and the federal government of Somalia over a cargo ship loaded with Turkish weaponry that is being detained.The ...
Kaaho Maslah, 27, a Dutch woman of Somali origin, survived a brutal attack by her husband in Mogadishu after she tried leaving him.
In a statement released on Thursday evening in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, Save the Children said cases of measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, cholera, and severe respiratory infections have ...
Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region acknowledged it’s holding a vessel full of military equipment until it can work out ...
Puntland leader Said Abdullahi Deni and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud have differed over electoral controls.
Somali forces have ended the siege at an upscale hotel in the country’s capital Mogadishu, police told CNN, following an attack from unidentified gunmen that left dozens dead.
Capt. Bishar Ahmed confirmed to CNN that a major attack occurred at the hotel, which lies in a heavily protected zone in downtown Mogadishu, where the state house, ministries and a high-security ...
"And, yeah, I'm optimistic about the future of Somalia," he says. And he's not the only one at Mogadishu's Liido Beach to express optimism about a country that's often written off as a failed state.
Somali authorities have spent years working to restore the national stadium in Mogadishu, and on Dec. 29 Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre inaugurated the national soccer tournament.