Residents of Somalia’s capital are set to vote Thursday in a controversial local election that marks the country’s first-ever ...

In a studio where the hum of broadcast equipment mixes with focused conversation, the team at Bilan Media prepares for a live talk show. Journalists adjust cameras, an audience settles in, and ...

Somalia is struggling to emerge from decades of civil war and entrenched poverty, while enduring a bloody insurgency by Al-Shabaab jihadists and frequent climate disasters. Resident Abdifatah Abdi ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A Somali appeals court on Sunday dropped charges against a woman who alleged she was raped by government security forces and had been convicted of defaming the government.

Universal suffrage is an ideal that all Somalis share. However, deep political disagreement among groups, persistent security ...

There may be no higher art in Somalia than oral poetry, which is recited in the most remote outposts and even by militants. The country is often described as “a nation of poets.” Aging poets ...

Over the past month, UNHCR figures show that nearly 40,000 Somalis displaced by drought and famine have converged on Mogadishu in search of food, water, shelter and other assistance. A further 30,000 ...

In Somalia, people are pushing back and pointing to the positives after President Trump disparaged their country.

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Somalia rape women seeking medicine on their bases and routinely pay teenage girls for sex, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on ...

A strange sight appears on the streets of Mogadishu: a figure dressed all in black, including a cowboy hat, riding a horse. Shukri Osman Muse, Somalia's first female ...