Thirty years of civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurgency in Somalia and neighbouring northeastern Kenya have hollowed out state services and left borderland communities beleaguered. Yet in this ...

Kenyan President William Ruto signed a proclamation to officially abolish arduous identification card vetting requirements ...

For decades, Somalia has been mired in violence, political instability, and food insecurity. The country’s struggles have ...

Opinion - When I was a kid, I thought democracy was unique to Greece and only Greeks would do better exercising. This was ...

Al-Shabab gunmen have stormed and laid siege to a hotel in central Somalia as government officials and tribal elders met to ...

The Black Hawk Down Incident is arguably the most famous story from the American involvement in the Somali Civil War, with it being popularized by Ridley Scott's 2001 film Black Hawk Down.

The changing role of Somali women represents a profound shift in the country’s social, economic, and political landscape.

Duniyo Mohamed Ali, a Somali woman activist in Mogadishu, remembers the role of Somali women for the survival of family in a nation devastated by civil war. "After the civil war broke out in 1991, the ...

However, it was when the Somali Civil War broke out in 1991 that the stadium became a base for several armed factions. In the early 1990s, during a peacekeeping mission in Somalia, US and ...