Opinion - When the United Nations Security Council voted in December 2023 to lift Somalia's long-standing arms embargo, many framed it as a vote of confidence, a sign that the world was ready to ...

Somalia has formed a new state by annexing territory from self-governing regions in a move that could worsen already-tense relations in the Horn of Africa country.

A stand off as Somalia demands release of a cargo ship carrying military equipment that was seized by semi-autonomous Puntland. The ship was reportedly transporting military equipment to Turkey’s ...

Al-Shabaab militants have captured the strategic central Somali town of Mahaas district, in Hiiran region of Somalia's Hirshabelle State, following heavy clashes with Somali government forces and ...

At a stabilisation centre in Baidoa, southern Somalia, Amina anxiously watches over her one-year-old son, Shariif, who is ...

The United States launched a rare ground operation in northern Somalia that apprehended Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the finance emir for the Islamic State’s so-called Somali Province. The raid was the ...

The Economist's July 24, 2025, article--painting Somalia's state-building as faltering and warning Mogadishu could fall to al-Shabab--has sparked a firestorm online. On X, Somalis are calling it ...

Cyclical rivalries between the federal government, states and the political opposition have undermined the counter-terrorism ...

The Deputy Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Ugochi Daniels, has wrapped up a four-day ...

Somalia’s Ministry of Fisheries and Blue Economy has published new regulations for controlling and managing the safety and ...

Mogadishu, Somalia, 31 July 2025 ndash; The Deputy Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), ...