Somali police arrested several suspected al-Shabaab militants on Thursday after an explosion in Mogadishu's Dayniile district exposed what authorities described as a bomb-making operation.The blast ...

The offensive al-Shabaab launched in late February 2025 marks its most ambitious push in years, reversing government gains ...

America never seems to get Somalia right. For decades, U.S. relations with the impoverished, strategically located country on ...

A new UN report details financial and operational updates on the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), highlighting persistent funding shortfalls. The mission’s budget requires 25% to ...

Teesto is among around 24,000 people in the Banadir region, which includes Mogadishu, impacted by flooding this month that killed at least 17. Humanitarian work in Somalia was already under-funded ...

After his home in the Somali capital was battered by torrential rains, Mohamed Abdukadir Teesto worries about his future at a time when local and foreign aid is vanishing. The Horn of Africa ...

Driven out of Mogadishu in 2011, the group continues to carry out deadly attacks in south and central Somalia. For over a decade, the militant group has been fighting to impose a hardline ...

Doha/Mogadishu (WDN) – Since the fall of Somalia’s central government in 1991, efforts to rebuild the Somali National Army (SNA) have trained over 40,000 troops abroad. Yet, decades later, Somalia’s ...

I remember sitting beneath Mogadishu’s blue sky ... carried by the wind while dust rose and danced above their heads. Somalia’s civil war had not yet begun, and the world still made sense.

Mogadishu: At least 10 people were killed on Sunday after a suicide bomber targeted a queue of young recruits registering at the Damanyo military base in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses ...